Category Archives: weather notes

changeover postponed day 4

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Weather: Wind NE 30-40 in the morning decreasing to below 20 knots in the afternoon. Forecast looks good for a planned shift changeover tomorrow morning.

Boats: 3 ecotour vessels

Maintenance:

  • collected several shingles that had blown off of the boat house overnight
  • another round of clean-up/pack-up for shift change
  • repaired 2 damaged extension cord plugs
  • raised a new flag on the flag pole
  • installed fresh chain on chainsaw

Shift changeover postponed day 2

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Weather: The NE wind has continued over 30 knots and up to 50 over night and throughout the day.  Forecast says it will keep up a few more days.  Temperature at or below freezing.

Maintenance:

  • The door to the fresh water cistern was blown off its hinges overnight, I did a rough, temporary fix with new set of hinges.
  • Several shingles have blown off or are flapping, some more soffit blown off
  • cut and chopped firewood

shift changeover postponed

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The changeover of guardians scheduled for today was postponed due to strong winds blowing waves into the jetty.

Weather:  Wind N 15 knots becoming NE reaching up to 50 knots by afternoon. Clear sky, temperature falling to near 0 deg C.

Strong wind, lightning

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Weather: A strong West wind over 50 knots picked up in the morning before dawn. There was also 2 lightning strikes in close proximity to the island that shook the house. The wind continued upwards of 40 knots throughout the day.  The weather caused some damage to the exterior of the main house and broke off a few more shingles from the old roofs.

Maintenance:

  • Picked up wind blown off pieces of vinyl fascia and soffit from NW corner of main house
  • continued work on assist house drainage problem

Wind and snow

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Weather:

  • A 30-35 knot N wind picked over night along with snow fall.Vertical North facing surfaces got some snow cover, everywhere else it blew off.
  • Visibility was less than a mile in the morning with fog horn sounding.
  • Seawater temp down to 8.5 C.

Maintenance:

  • cleared snow off lantern room window
  • communications with Kyle and technician re desalinator problems
  • communications with Kyle re diesel fuel level and delivery this week
  • request for wood stove gasket cement.
  • worked on cleaning and organizing in basement and consolidating obsolete items for removal

Other

  • DFO noted higher than normal seawater temps in Nov data set, requested that we take analog observations for the next five days to compare with digital measurements.