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Today we've got a high of 75F! Very humid sweaty. After today it will get back down to the 40s, but this is wild. The snow only just finished melting. I feel like I'm going to spend the rest of my life cringing every time someone comments on how "nice" the unseasonably warm weather is.

After a couple of days of very high 38-39c and nights around the 25C mother nature is being kind to us for a couple of days.

Today 0600 22.2 expected max 26c
For the next week 18 - 30. Possibility for rain.

We're expecting lots of rain. Nothing so far...

Why I like living in Victoria. Here's the current weather radar map. Note the how the rainshadow effect of the Olympic Mountains keeps us dry relative to the rest of Vancouver Island and the southern B.C. coast. Rainfall amount in the past 24 hours from my rain gauge: 0.0 mm.

I live slightly below the southern edge of Michael's map. As of 10 AM, my rain gauge had measured 5.08 mm since Midnight.

Great view. I am expecting an atmospheric river to show up- I guess mid-evening. We could use more rain- just not at one time, please.

So, the river showed up about 6:00 am. Not all that hard, we've had 4.6 cm in a little over 2 hours. We are not used to this- and neither are the ducks. I had the usual pair (at least I think of them as the same ducks every year.) showed up in my pond right on schedule third week of January. I feed them chicken laying mash. If I am not out there with food by 8:00 she come looking in the sliding door at me. Well- it is too wet for ducks today- no sign of them. This will be snow at high elevations.

0300 last night
Low of 21.7 feels like 24.3 Rel Hum 90%
Current temp
27.9 act, feels like 30.6 rel hum 65%
Expected high 30

The highest temperature occurred on January 31 with 14.4 degrees.
The lowest temperature occurred on January 13 with -11.3 degrees.
*** This sets a new January record, beating the old record of -7.5.
The average temperature for the month was 4.9, the normal is 5.9.
The total precipitation for the month was 117.2 mm, the normal amount is 109.2 mm.
There were 20 days with precipitation, the normal is 19.
The most precipitation occurred on January 27 with 17.6 mm.
The highest wind speed occurred on January 09 with 61 kmh.

We had 12 cm of snow over two days, with a trace of snow falling on two other days.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-01-30/ ... /103400626

Today.12:30hrs, Temp 24.6c, App temp 24.9c, Dew Pt 17.1, Humidity 63%

Muggy.

Hope you are staying cool , Stuart.
We are having what some call "Pineapple Express" others, Atmospheric River. I had to dump my little rain gauge we had 4.2 inches of rain since last evening (10.7 cm); the rain gauge only holds 5 inches. Several years not too long ago, 4.2 was the year's total. I have an ornamental pond which I try not to add city water to fill, it falls over the summer. It is nearly full. I captured a couple hundred gallons of rainwater off my roof to fill it faster than it would directly.

Good to see you posting, Morgan!
I was just reading about your weather and came here to see if you were OK.

I was wondering how much of the storm would get to you, Morgan. Glad to hear you're merely soggy, not totally flooded out.

Image from Feb 4-6, 2024

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The current temperature, today's high, is 65°F (18°C)!!!
The 'normal' (whatever that really means) is 38°F (3°C).

Wow!!!

Technically, the normal is the average value over the previous thirty year period ending in a year divisible by ten. I.e. the average value of the Daily Maximum temperature for that day from 1991-2020. The trouble is that then normal values shift. I.e. the normal daily max from 1941-1970 is likely lower that the one from 1991-2020.

Not transcriber weather now, but maybe one of these decades, or even sooner!

Last night/this morning at 0630 was the lowest at 19.3, high @ 1800 33.1 dew 11, rel 26.
Yesterday low 0630 15.3, high @ 1500 only 29.4 dew 11,9, rel 34.

Hot and muggy.

It's 5° C here and just started snowing hard. Of course at this temperature, it's not sticking. Forecast is for possible rain/snow mix or ice pellets tonight.