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Glacier wrote:Which density were you using? You have to figure out the temperature gradient of the water before vs the temperature after. Sure, you could just assume a density of 1.0000, but then you're accuracy would suffer.

What, no comments on the sweet graphs above?

I ballparked it using 1 cu. ft. of water being 62.42 lbs. The graphs are sweet indeed, as usual you are a plethora of information.

Here's how the temperature changes along highway 97...

It was snowing here this afternoon.




Dammit.

We had hail.

Just got word via fb that Banff is a Winterwonderland right now.

It's coming!

I took this pic from my deck this morning:

http://i151.photobucket.com/albums/s136/WoodenhHead/effingsnow_zps89813ef5.jpg

And TA DA! What, just what does my post above yours say?

Just keep it up there and we're all happy.
Deal?

Queen K wrote:Just keep it up there and we're all happy.
Deal?

I'm going to fill our old dumptruck full of snow & dump it in your driveway before you wake up.

Is it still coming down? I'm getting no reports on FB this morning. Oh, and is cell phone service dead up there? Someone thinks it is the snow blocking access to cell service.

Stopped snowing, it's just "foggy" now. But it was snowing when I was coming home from work last night. (around 2AM) There's really not much snow on the ground here - one or two sunny days & it'll be gone.

Cell service is fine - I'm on Virgin (Bell).

Time for bed. (don't ask lol)

geez, one needs duck feet today . . . what do your charts have to say about this rain Glacier? I heard someone say something about a record being broken.

It sure looks like you guys got it pretty good down there today. Here in Vernon we only received about 1/2 a cm of rain, but you go over 2 cms in places. The 1.3 cm at the airport is a new record for the Airport, and the wettest Oct 29th recording in Kelowna since 1909. Records began in 1899.

Check out this map Note: Numbers in cm, and any place that shows 0 cm is not working properly.


ETA: Aaaaand it has just started raining again.

Have you ever wondered which is the hottest and coldest places in BC? The answer is actually more difficult than you think because there isn't much difference between one community and another a lot of the times. Plus, we are left comparing 20 years at one place against a different 20 year period at another place. This all leads to errors, so taking in account a margin of error, here are the hottest and coldest places in BC based on the past 30 years of data.

When more than one place is shown, it's because it is not 100% certain of the which city is #1. They are ordered from most probable to least.



JANUARY

Hottest (links show location)

Discovery Island
Tofino

Coldest

Fort Nelson

FEBRUARY

Hottest

Discovery Island
Race Rocks

Coldest

Fort Nelson

MARCH

Hottest

Discovery Island

Coldest

Cassiar

APRIL

Hottest

Spences Bridge
Osoyoos
Agassiz Mountain Institute
Chillwack
Oliver

Coldest

Cassiar
Fraser Camp

MAY

Hottest

Spences Bridge
Ashcroft
Osoyoos
Lillooet
Oliver

Coldest

Whistler Roundhouse

JUNE

Hottest

Ashcroft
Spences Bridge
Lillooet

Coldest

Whistler Roundhouse

JULY

Hottest

Spences Bridge
Lillooet

Coldest

Whistler Roundhouse

AUGUST

Hottest

Spences Bridge
Boston Bar
Lillooet
Lytton

Coldest

Cassiar
Fraser Camp
Whistler Roundhouse
Unuk River - Eskay Creek

SEPTEMBER

Hottest

Spences Bridge
Lytton
Lillooet
Yale

Coldest

Fraser Camp
Fording River
Unuk River - Eskay Creek
Cassiar

OCTOBER

Hottest

Discovery Island
Sumas Canal
Agassiz Mountain Institute
Howe Sound - Pam Rocks
Saturna Island

Coldest

Cassiar

NOVEMBER

Hottest

Discovery Island
Race Rocks

Coldest

Fort Nelson
Toad River

DECEMBER

Hottest

Discovery Island
Sheringham Point

Coldest

Fort Nelson

And for the year, here are top 5 hottest and coldest places based on average annual temperature.

Top 5 Warmest Places in BC (Temperature in Degrees C)

1. Howe Sound - Pam Rocks (11.3)
2. Discovery Island (11.2)
3. Sumas Canal (11.2)
4. Porlier Pass Light Station (11.2)
5. Agassiz Mountain Institute (11.1)

Top 5 Coldest Places in BC (Temperature in Degrees C)

1. Cassiar (-1.8)
2. Tetsa River (-1.0)
3. Fraser Camp (-0.8)
4. Dease Lake (-0.7)
5. Graham Inlet (-0.7)

Annual temperature in various places around the Okanagan(Temperature in Degrees C)

1. Osoyoos (10.4)
2. Oliver (10.2)
3. Peachland (9.9)
4. Naramata (9.9)
5. Keremeos (9.6)
6. Okanagan Centre (9.5)
7. Kelowna - downtown (9.5)
8. Penticton (9.5)
9. Kamloops (9.3)
10. Summerland (9.2)
11. Westbank (9.0)
12. Winfield (8.9)
13. Vernon (8.7)
14. Hedley (8.6)
15. Salmon Arm (8.2)
16. Kelowna Airport (8.1)
17. Grand Forks (8.0)
18. Coldstream (7.8)
19. Sicamous (7.8)
20. Armstrong (7.4)
21. Lumby (6.8)
22. Princeton (6.5)
23. Joe Rich Creek (5.0)
24. Brenda Mines (3.3)
25. McCulloch (3.1)
26. Nicklen Lake (2.9)

Annual temperature at the airports around the BC(Temperature in Degrees C)

1. Abbotsford (10.4)
2. Vancouver (10.4)
3. Hope (10.2)
4. Nanaimo (10.1)
5. Victoria (10.1)
6. Comox (10.0)
7. Texada Island (9.9)
8. Port Alberni (9.8)
9. Powell River (9.5)
10. Penticton (9.5)
11. Tofino (9.4)
12. Kamloops (9.3)
13. Campbell River (9.0)
14. Castlegar (8.7)
15. Port Hardy (8.5)
16. Sandspit (8.5)
17. Bella Coola (8.4)
18. Kelowna (8.1)
19. Pemberton (8.1)
20. Prince Rupert (7.5)
21. Revestoke (7.5)
22. Salmon Arm (7.4)
23. Terrace (6.6)
24. Princeton (6.5)
25. Stewart (6.1)
26. Cranbrook (6.0)
27. Quesnel (5.5)
28. Golden (5.1)
29. Blue River (4.7)
30. Williams Lake (4.5)
31. Prince George (4.3)
32. Smithers (4.0)
33. Fort St James (3.3)
34. Chetwynd (2.9)
35. MacKenzie (2.9)
36. Fort St John (2.3)
37. Puntzi Mountain (2.3)
38. Dawson Creek (1.8)
39. Fort Nelson (-0.4)
40. Dease Lake (-0.7)

Yesterday was the second coldest Halloween on record for most of BC from Williams Lake up to Fort Nelson. -20 in the Peace, and -26 in Fort Nelson.

By far the coldest Halloween on record was 1984. Fort Nelson was -28 that day, but parts of the far north and at least one place in the Cariboo were -36. Williams Lake was -29 in the morning and -14 in the afternoon. Yesterday was the second coldest Halloween on record in that Cariboo city and the extremes were only -9 and -6.

Unlike 2012, the Okanagan was not spared in 1984. The temperature dropped down to -23 in Joe Rich, -22 in Armstrong, -21 in Vernon, -19 in Kelowna, and -14 in Peachland, Penticton, Summerland, and Oliver. Osoyoos was a balmy -11.

Picture taken yesterday in Williams Lake.