New Podcast is up!

Looking at the new Environment Canada Adjusted and Homogenized Climate Data set for Port Alberni and what it means for Wildfires.

This is the full version of the abbreviated talk I gave last Wednesday at the AVTTS “When Smoke Clears" Public Forum on the Mt Underwood fire.

https://youtu.be/3dvoo9rxzOQ

You can find a recording of that event in full on the AVTT youtube page.
#BCWildfire #PortAlberni #ClimateChange #ClimateEmergency #GlobalWarming #Drought

May 25 2026 - Climate Change in Port Alberni now with updated Environment Canada Adjusted Data!

YouTube

This evening 7PM in #PortAlberni, the Alberni Valley Transition Town Society will host a special event at Char's Landing:

"When Smoke Clears: Wildfire Risks and Mitigation”

I will be part of a panel with the ACRD, Island Health, and BC Wildfire.

My short presentation is about climate change in the Alberni Valley and includes new historical data from ECCC.

You can check out my presentation slides here:

https://www.alberniweather.ca/may2026presentation/

#ClimateChange #Transition #EndFossilFuels #BCWildfire

Keynote

'Still too dry': Campfire ban remains for some B.C. South Coast communities over long weekend

“Others, like Squamish and Sunshine Coast Regional District, to allow campfires during long-weekend”

#BCWildfire #BC
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/campfire-ban-for-pemberton-powell-river-whistler-9.7198831

Pemberton, Powell River, Whistler banning campfires over long weekend | CBC News

The B.C. Wildfire Service is rescinding a campfire ban for B.C.'s South Coast, which includes some B.C. Parks locations. But some municipalities in the Sea-to-Sky and Sunshine Coast regions are keeping the ban due to tinder dry conditions.

CBC

looks like a campfire gone bad near the lookout and train tracks this morning. It was visible from town at 6:30AM

Campfires are still banned until Friday. But even then, please be extremely careful with any fire. The bush remains extremely dry under the surface.

https://wildfiresituation.nrs.gov.bc.ca/map

#bcwildfire #portalberni

It's the second week of May. Wildfire season in Alberta and NE BC has begun.

Concerning fire near Whitecourt, AB.
(NW of Edmonton)

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/alta-wildfire-woodlands-county-whitecourt-9.7196552
#BCWildfire #ABWildfire #ClimateEmergency #ClimateChange #Fire

Fast-moving wildfire continues to rage near Whitecourt | CBC News

A wildfire threatening homes near Whitecourt continues to rage a few kilometres southeast of the northern Alberta town.

CBC
Wow, great example of burying the lead. Headline is in the the last paragraph. 🤦 #cdnmedia #bcpoli #bcwildfire #CBC

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:nont2yyr6zgjd6bryhn7aw7b/post/3mle5rmys6c23

B.C. wildfire burning near Cultus Lake as hot weather continues

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://globalnews.ca/news/11829621/wildfire-sparked-cultus-lake/