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As was mentioned in the Vancouver vs. Honolulu thread, Vancouver and Victoria are set to break the sunshine record for most hours of consecutive sunshine. As of yesterday morning, Vancouver stood at 388.1 hours of sunshine and Victoria was at 421 hours. By the end of the day today, Vancouver could surpass 400 hours of sunshine in a single month ever. It's also been bone dry with 0mm of precip the entire month which would also be the first time ever a calendar month has not recorded any precip. More info from this CBC article.
What does everyone think about this? I personally love it but am worried about the risk of forest fires in the area if this keep up. I think we are supposed to get a few showers by Friday, so it should break the dry streak but it will go back to mostly sunny and dry days in the forecast after that.
As was mentioned in the Vancouver vs. Honolulu thread, Vancouver and Victoria are set to break the sunshine record for most hours of consecutive sunshine. As of yesterday morning, Vancouver stood at 388.1 hours of sunshine and Victoria was at 421 hours. By the end of the day today, Vancouver could surpass 400 hours of sunshine in a single month ever. It's also been bone dry with 0mm of precip the entire month which would also be the first time ever a calendar month has not recorded any precip. More info from this CBC article.
What does everyone think about this? I personally love it but am worried about the risk of forest fires in the area if this keep up. I think we are supposed to get a few showers by Friday, so it should break the dry streak but it will go back to mostly sunny and dry days in the forecast after that.
421 hrs wow!
That would be almost half a years total in Buxton
There are huge forest fires developing in Central Washington due to the dryness. I am in Vancouver right now and I saw three plumes of smoke coming off the hills near the border. And that was in Western Washington, where the sun supposedly never shines. It hasn't been bone dry down in Seattle, we had some rain.
I would rather not have summers that sunny here, but with Vancouver's cloudy 6-7 months of the year, I wouldn't mind it at all.
Yes brown grass everywhere... the city doesn't have any water restrictions yet as reservoirs are still fairly full but could happen soon if we don't get any appreciable rain.
I'd be shocked if Vancouver got water restrictions considering how wet the city is for 7 months of the year.
Vancouver has similar rainfall to here, but water restrictions still happen in dry summers. A preceding dry spring is the main culprit.
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