Category Archives: weather

Rising water

Posted on May 3, 2011 by Alistair

Do birds react to a freshet? On April 24, this year’s freshet began on Kootenay Lake. The lake level had been declining during the winter as precipitation became locked in the mountains as snow. Now, driven by the melting of … Continue reading →

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Mimics

Posted on April 30, 2011 by Alistair

  • April mimicked March. • April now departs. • Might May mimic June?   Departing mallards mimic circumflexes.

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Guttation returns

Posted on April 23, 2011 by Alistair

You know the grass has started to grow when it displays guttation. Guttation is not dew. Dew results from the condensation of water vapour from the atmosphere and it forms small drops over the whole surface of a grass blade. … Continue reading →

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Yearning

Posted on March 9, 2011 by Alistair

  OK, you have my permission to move on to the next season anytime now.

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Circumzenithal arc

Posted on February 27, 2011 by Alistair

Who can fail to love the circumzenithal arc? It is uncommon and it displays one of the purest colour spectra to be found in nature. More information about when and how the circumzenithal and circumhorizontal arcs form is found on … Continue reading →

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Fog fun

Posted on February 23, 2011 by Alistair

Recipe: take one cup of boiling water and throw it out in the cold. Steam fog is a favourite topic of the Kootenay Lake website. There is a page dealing with Steam fog over the Lake, one about Steam fog … Continue reading →

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Snows of Balfour

Posted on February 8, 2011 by Alistair

Peter Bartl is a friend who lives on the high ground of Balfour. Knowing of my interest in things meteorological, he asked: Why do we … above Balfour, have so much more snow than everybody else along the West Arm … as … Continue reading →

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Lake mirage

Posted on February 5, 2011 by Alistair

Who ever notices a mirage on the Lake? Once I took pictures of mirages at the Coast and then included them in an article. A reader responded that everyday for years she went for a walk along the beach, but … Continue reading →

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Nelson implores

Posted on January 31, 2011 by Alistair

Has the City of Nelson taken to imploring the Great Goddess of Weather to send no further snow for this winter? It might seem so: Arlene Anderson spotted this sign lying in the snow of Lakeside Park. Its message, to stay … Continue reading →

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Glory at last

Posted on January 9, 2011 by Alistair

Meteorological optics have long been a passion of mine: rainbows, haloes, coronae, glories, sylvanshine, mirages, crepuscular rays, twilight, anti–twilight arch, the green flash, and many more. These are some of the things I have seen and photographed elsewhere. Alas, a … Continue reading →

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