Expedition Canada

Shorts back in closet Friday morning Fri Aug 24th to  Sun Aug 26th Friday morning got off to a beautiful start with the mountains above the Sea to Sky Highway on the mainland clearly visible.  By sunset it was clouding over and it rained most of the weekend. The local rainfall for the Friday when we lost power has been revised up to 128mm.  It will be interesting to see what we get by the end of this week, with rain forecast to run through to Thursday before sun reappears. What a difference a day makes (colour pic!) Shorts have been returned to the wardrobe and I'm back in jeans that  have hardly seen the light of day in  six months.  Well almost six months, next Monday Oct 3rd will be half a year since we arrived in Canada.  It has flown by. I'm sitting in the office we've created on the mezzanine, looking out across West Howe Sound.  In the space of ten minutes the sun has lit patches of sea, only to disappear in a squall of rain and mist, ...

Rain on Vancouver Island Sun May 8th   Vancouver Area Rainfall Chatting to some local friends yesterday they said, 'of course you know the area around the Sunshine Coast has a lot of micro-climates, the further south/east, the wetter it gets'.   Thinking about it and recalling how it could be raining in Marlborugh and sunny in Burbage I can understand how, with the prevalence of multiple mountain ranges here, this could be possible.   The prevailing winds are generally easterly, unlike Wiltshire's windy westerly's.  Similarly, the mountains behind us are often covered in cloud and rain, while the coast is bathed in sun.  The high mountain range on Vancouver Island usually has a bank of cloud above it, as the easterly's blow in diagonally across the Strait of Georgia, the water that separates the Sunshine Coast from Van Island, cools the air which forms cloud, rain and snow on 'them there hills'.   Interest piqued, what I found ...