Shortest Day
Boys Day Out Hopkins Landing - Sunrise Tue Dec 21st The winter solstice has arrived and the days will soon start getting longer and nights shorter. If we on the Coast needed a reminder that Dec 21st is the start of winter the -1c outside left us in no doubt, that's 6c below average. Snow is due later in the day. Six months ago it was 27.6c; the start of the heat dome that engulfed west coast North America and pressaged the 1600 fires that destroyed 8,700 sq km of BC forests, the third worst season on record. That's five and half times the area of Greater London. The lack of rain that accompanied the warm summer led to water restrictions on the coast. Locally, the Gibsons Well supplied water without problem, as distinct from Chapman Lake reservoir that serves Sechelt and the northern west coast. Gibsons actually piped water to Sechelt at the height of the restrictions. The dry summer was closely followed by a very wet Oct ...