What Is The Weather Today II (No Mercury Jockeying)

[giallo]

There's a really bad fire in the Summerland area of the Central Okanagan right now. It started Friday night and exploded in growth over the last 24 hours. The entire town of Summerland has been evacuated. It's a monster that is growing at an insane rate. You can see the flames from downtown Kelowna at night.

There are a lot of homes, wineries and ranches out there. I'm hoping for the best, but it seems bleak right now.


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[Nicko999]

27C with a humidex of 33 and mainly sunny. Drove to Tremblant this afternoon where I will be for the next couple of days. It's a completely different world out here, 17C right now at 11PM while it's 24C in Montreal...

Low of 21C (humidex of 28) this morning. Woke up to a thunderstorm at 4AM. That's when the low was achieved but it remained at tropical levels.

The warmspot was Lillooet, BC at 33.5C.

Warmest low yesterday was Point Pelee, ON at 22.6C.

[Five Four]

Just had a HUGE thunderstorm on PEI. Had to go inside. Easily one of, if not the largest I've seen in a long time. Near constant flashing. Currently lightly raining at 21C with 96% humidity.

[SignalHillHiker]

New tourism slogan. Hang yourself.

Fingers are numb from the cold.

[SignalHillHiker]

Nevermind. There's hope.













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[MonctonRad]

21C (humidex 28) and sunny in Moncton at 10 AM, going up to 27C this afternoon.

Originally Posted by Five Four

Just had a HUGE thunderstorm on PEI. Had to go inside. Easily one of, if not the largest I've seen in a long time. Near constant flashing. Currently lightly raining at 21C with 96% humidity.

There was a vicious thunderstorm in Kent County just north of Moncton last evening at about 1030 PM. You could see near continuous lightning from the storm on the northern horizon from here in Moncton. Torrential rains and some wind damage in around Bouctouche. There was rotation detected near Miramichi, but no confirmed tornado. I imagine this was the same storm you experienced in PEI.

[Airboy]

Barley reaching 20 this week. And more rain in the forecast. The weekend turned out ok, great thunderstorm and Rain early Sunday morning(3am). but the day turned out ok.

Hell the Folk Fest needed rain.

[Calgarian]

Just spent the weekend in BC, the smoke is brutal! summer used to be the best time of year in that province, now it's the scariest! That fire in Summerland is terrifying, hearing of explosive growth and people having minutes to get out. Wish some of the rain we are forecast to get would make it's way across the rockies! So hot and so dry over there...

[stefanYEG]

We were camping in the Crowsnest Pass area last weekend/week and while the daytime highs were fine (anywhere from 22 to 36), the overnight lows were quite cool. We woke up to frost one morning, and I saw that Coleman had actually gone down to -1 overnight. This is not unusual for the Rockies, but I sometimes forget how cold it can get at night and had not even packed a jacket.

Back here in Edmonton, the weekend turned out pretty nice with temps only around 22-23, but noticeable humidity which made it feel a lot warmer. This week looks like garbage though. Way too cool for August, with high temps MAYBE reaching 20 all the way to the weekend before it warms up a bit. More rain too, which is absolutely not needed here.

[OldDartmouthMark]

Originally Posted by MonctonRad

I imagine this was the same storm you experienced in PEI.

I am pretty sure it was, as I was tracking it on weather radar through the evening.

Really hot and humid in Halifax this past week. We had a brief heavy shower mid afternoon yesterday and the sun came back out. You could literally see the steam rising from the pavement as the water evaporated. Felt like being in a sauna!

[flar]

Back home now, really feeling the humidity after being in Iceland. The final day there was sunny and 16.

One last round of pics. Unbelievable range of scenery, we had a great visit.






Look at the clouds

[Zepfancouver]

Thanks for sharing flar, great photos and fantastic landscape.

[Architype]

Today it was about 16°C in St. John's, but it felt warmer with the high humidity; overall a pretty nice day.





(photos by me)

[Metro-One]

Originally Posted by Calgarian

Just spent the weekend in BC, the smoke is brutal! summer used to be the best time of year in that province, now it's the scariest! That fire in Summerland is terrifying, hearing of explosive growth and people having minutes to get out. Wish some of the rain we are forecast to get would make it's way across the rockies! So hot and so dry over there...

Yeah, it sucks, but we are making up for a century of fire suppression plus climate change. So two powder kegs happening at once.

I think at this rate we have about another decade to go before the forests find their equilibrium again (at which point we can’t go back to the practices of old, we need to let fires burn, but instead of massive crown fires they will likely be natural creeping surface fires again).

Please note this is for the Montane forests of BC, as for the boreal forests, those have a much bigger transition ahead of them.

Kamloops has been the worst for the smoke, essentially having constant smoke since mid July, the smoke didn’t settle into the Okanagan until about a week ago.

For the coast, Vancouver had about two smokey days with a little haze on a couple others, Abbotsford about three or four, the Island though has only had one hazy afternoon (my parents are in Nanaimo).

[Nicko999]

24C with a humidex of 29 in Tremblant and mainly cloudy. About 2 degrees cooler than MTL (26C) during the day. As soon as the sun goes down, the difference becomes massive.











Low of 16C this morning. Montreal recorded another tropical night with a low above 20C.

The warmspot was Ashcroft, BC at 32.3C.

Warmest low yesterday Trois-Rivières, QC at 20.6C.

[whatnext]

Originally Posted by Calgarian

Just spent the weekend in BC, the smoke is brutal! summer used to be the best time of year in that province, now it's the scariest! That fire in Summerland is terrifying, hearing of explosive growth and people having minutes to get out. Wish some of the rain we are forecast to get would make it's way across the rockies! So hot and so dry over there...

Time to switch your visits to Vancouver Island or the North Coast!

[MonkeyRonin]

Originally Posted by Metro-One

Yeah, it sucks, but we are making up for a century of fire suppression plus climate change. So two powder kegs happening at once.

I think at this rate we have about another decade to go before the forests find their equilibrium again (at which point we can’t go back to the practices of old, we need to let fires burn, but instead of massive crown fires they will likely be natural creeping surface fires again).

It's not just that - generations of logging & replanting of denser, less diverse, and more pine-heavy forests (for the purposes of re-logging) have also made for less resilient forests. And then partly related to that, and partly related to the warming climate are the pine beetle infestations that ravaged large swathes of the interior and left dead, dry trees just waiting to go up in flames.




The good thing is that after a burn, a healthier & more resilient forest is able to grow in its place when left to recover naturally. Unfortunately, there's still a whole lot of forest that will burn before we get there. And the increasingly prolonged hot, dry weather will only exacerbate things in the years to come.

[SignalHillHiker]

RDF again. At least it's not freezing.

[BradFromTO]

It's so far been a warm, but not extreme summer in Southern Ontario. July was a degree and a bit warmer than average, and a bit drier than average. Outside of the Canada Day heatwave, and a 2 day heat wave a few weeks after, we only hit 30 once. So overall, just pleasantly warm and not insane humidity.

August so far is tracking a bit above average, however noticeably muggier and already 50mm of rain (July had 67 total). That being said, the next 1-2 weeks look cooler than average, with the humidity breaking by the weekend. Again nothing extreme - that's the theme of our summer so far - highs around 24-26 and lows around 13-16. A degree or two below normal.

Days are getting noticeably shorter.

[Airboy]

Originally Posted by MonkeyRonin

It's not just that - generations of logging & replanting of denser, less diverse, and more pine-heavy forests (for the purposes of re-logging) have also made for less resilient forests. And then partly related to that, and partly related to the warming climate are the pine beetle infestations that ravaged large swathes of the interior and left dead, dry trees just waiting to go up in flames.

The good thing is that after a burn, a healthier & more resilient forest is able to grow in its place when left to recover naturally. Unfortunately, there's still a whole lot of forest that will burn before we get there. And the increasingly prolonged hot, dry weather will only exacerbate things in the years to come.

Jasper Wildfire basically took the forest back to what is was over 100 years ago.

One of the operations ongoing after the fire is the planting of more Aspen trees. These are more fire retardant and can protect communities. There is also work on removing a lot of trees and PB damaged trees.

You will probably see more controlled burns in the spring as well.

We had Fire safe do a check of our place in ST Albert they had no problem with the trees in the back of the yard, it was the pine and spruce near the house.