Archive for the category "weather"

A Bouquet of Freshly Sharpened Pencils

August 28th, 2007 @ 3:27pm by Rebecca Bollwitt
Posted in poll, vancouver, weather

As Vancouverites, we accept 10 months of rain and mild weather. We come to live with the fact that if there’s frost on the ground, no one can drive properly and if it’s rainy from October to June… at least there will be sun in July and August. This year I don’t think Mother Nature [...]

Natural Fireworks Tomorrow Night

August 11th, 2007 @ 10:40am by Rebecca Bollwitt
Posted in vancouver, weather

Tomorrow night perhaps Vancouverites will be able to catch an anticipated meteor shower. My husband‘s always been fascinated by astronomy and me, well I just think the little I know about it all is still pretty neat. Photo credit: jon rawlinson on Flickr It’s surprising how many more stars you see in the sky once [...]

Miss604 Poll: How About That Weather, Eh

July 11th, 2007 @ 10:35am by Rebecca Bollwitt
Posted in poll, vancouver, weather

West Coast Sunset – Duane Storey It’s what we do in Vancouver, we talk about the weather. How much rain we had last week, how many rainfall records we broke, there was once a glimpse of sunshine in March where crocuses popped up but then were covered by frost the next morning… So in this [...]

Apparently It’s Winter in Vancouver

January 5th, 2007 @ 12:24pm by Rebecca Bollwitt
Posted in vancouver, weather

Back East, they’re getting our usual weather. I heard it’s 14 degrees above the yearly average in Toronto. Meanwhile in the Lower Mainland, we all woke up to this strange white substance falling from the sky. We’ve seen it before, a few months ago, but I haven’t the foggiest as to why it’s coming down [...]

I am the Nino

January 3rd, 2007 @ 7:59pm by Rebecca Bollwitt
Posted in geeky, weather, youtube

John and I are watching the Canucks cruise into their 5th straight win, nope, no breaking the streak tonight… [Canucks&Beyond] even though we’re just in the first intermission. I thought I’d just post something on a slightly lighter note, since earlier today it got a little heavy. Flipping through channels during the intermission John came [...]

Five Golden Toques

November 26th, 2006 @ 2:45pm by Rebecca Bollwitt
Posted in cheap fun, cheap things to do, snow, traffic, transit, weather

After blogging about how we don’t have “real” seasons in Vancouver anymore (just hot hot for 2 months in the summer then 10 months of grey wetness [mbv]) Mother Nature made me put my foot in my mouth as the Lower Mainland with dusted with several inches of snow this weekend [mg] [mbv]. It’s still [...]

swimming to work

November 6th, 2006 @ 8:02pm by Rebecca Bollwitt
Posted in rainy, vancouver, weather

A post about rain. I don’t want to do a post about rain. Recently Darren Barefoot’s blog had an anniversary [db], he listed off a bunch of blogs and their ‘first posts’ to the world. Looking back, mine is about rain and silly ideas [604], although I’m not sure that was my first post – [...]