RE: https://mstdn.chrisalemany.ca/@AlberniweatherBot/116905870647937074

30mm of rain tonight! I’ll have to see if we set a record at the airport, who likely got more than my station. I can’t imagine it isn’t a record for a July 11! Certainly the most for many years!

#bcstorm #portalberni #rain #summer

City of Port Alberni :portalberni: moving to Stage 1 Water Restrictions on July 1st.

#conserve #water #portalberni #summer
https://albernivalleynews.com/2026/06/26/city-of-port-alberni-moving-to-stage-1-water-restrictions-on-july-1/

some very light moisture moving onto the Island now from the West-SouthWest.

We'll see if it amounts to anything.
#BCStorm #PortAlberni #Radar #Rain

Just added the ATmosphere plugin on the blog @alberniweatherblog so it posts into Bluesky natively.

Posts will still also be shared through its Fediverse account and through here and bridged to Bluesky so nothing is changing there.

Hooray #socialweb!

If you run your own Wordpress blog and haven’t installed the ActivityPub and ATmosphere plugins to be a full part of the social web, now’s the time!

https://wordpress.org/plugins/atmosphere/

https://wordpress.org/plugins/activitypub/
#atproto #activitypub #wordpress #weather

Happy end to the longest day of the year!
#sunset #solstice

The potential Super El Niño's impact on Vancouver Island.

"He added that based on predictions for this year, weather patterns building right now will even exceed any of the previous strong El Niños in the recent historical record.”

“In addition, waters off the B.C. coast are likely to become unusually warm, and sea levels will very likely rise somewhere around 20 centimetres above normal tidal levels,” Merryfield said.

https://albernivalleynews.com/2026/06/19/scientist-warns-of-potential-impacts-of-super-el-nio-on-vancouver-island/

#ElNiño #ClimateChange #BC #BCStorm

New wildfire near the end of Cypress Boulevard and Batty Rd in Cherry Creek is now “Being Held” at 0.3ha

Good news.
#PortAlberni #BCWildfire

Very smoky smell in Nanaimo this morning and noticeable haze in the air. Doesn't seem to be from any local fires, so perhaps it is being drawn from fires in Washington state? Unclear.

Summer has begun a few days early, I guess. :(

#Fire #Summer #BCWildfire

sheesh... 36.0º C was the high at Alberniweather today. Ya... it felt that hot!
#PortAlberni #BC #Weather #hot

1/2 ENSO Discussion this morning:

"Collectively, the coupled ocean-atmosphere system reflected the onset of El Niño conditions.”

"The North American Multi-Model Ensemble (NMME) average... forecasts El Niño to intensify into the Northern Hemisphere winter 2026-27. High confidence in El Niño is also linked to anomalously high oceanic heat content and expanding westerly wind anomalies across the equatorial Pacific Ocean.

#ElNiño #Weather #Climate #ExtremeWeather

https://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/analysis_monitoring/enso_advisory/ensodisc.shtml