Here's my time-lapse of April skies as seen from #UVic in Greater #VictoriaBC.

I write up a little summary of the month as well, it's at https://www.victoriaweather.ca/summaries.php

A few images and comments follow in the replies.

I have someone asking me to help with a PolaRx5 #GNSS that can only send observations (via satellite) using FTP (!). No one here at #UVic wants to set up an #FTP server. I don't want to. It would be attacked relentlessly.

Apparently the device can be polled from here over ssh: it's not going to have static IP. The user is going to use #Starlink (not my choice). Does dynamic DNS work with that service?

Battery power at the site limits options quite a bit as well.

Suggestions? Ideas?

I finally found some time to finish my March weather summary for #UVic, and to post the Month in a Minute sky video.

The big problem I face is that my oldest weather station site, the ISC at UVic is going to go offline soonish. They are demolishing the site to make way for new housing. The site I will be relying on going forward is on BWC. It's quite different from ISC. I'll be working on some kind of characterisation of the differences in the coming months.

https://www.victoriaweather.ca/summaries.php

I just noticed that Cinecenta at #UVic is showing #Tampopo. This is one of the world’s Great Films. If you haven’t seen it and are in Greater #VictoriaBC Go See It.

#Radon has been in the news again in #Canada. It's something that's easy to test for, and remediation is not difficult. Though the risk is small in my region (Pacific Coastal) I bought a test kit to measure levels in my home.

The result is here: 60 Bq/m^3.

This is above average for my region (24 Bq/m^3), but below the guideline levels (100–200 Bq/m^3 depending on which authority one uses).

#Saanich #VictoriaBC #GordonHead #UVic

https://crosscanadaradon.ca/survey/

#Throwback to being cast as a high school student for a medical science film from an older PhD student at UVIC, 2 weeks after my 40th birthday in 2015. All the actual minor kids cast as students were bigger than me

UVic has a resident peacock named George. He's not a pet. He just shows up when the weather warms up. Anyway, whenever my daughter spots George she texts me a photo. Here is today's George photo.

Since the Frog and Toad bot is no more, here are Frog and Toad on a date at UVic on Vancouver Island.

February's Month in a Minute video is here! This is the view looking north from #UVic last month.

I've also posted my little summary of the weather. It’s at https://www.victoriaweather.ca/summaries.php

One of my favourite classes in my Master of #CommunityDevelopment program at #UVic was the one about strategic communication. The principles behind the concepts we studied in that class is something that I can't stop seeing in all sorts of types of communication, and I love pointing out when I see good examples of it.

Today's example is from the Evo Car Share service's announcement that they were correcting something as a result of customer feedback.

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Here's my Month-in-a-Minute video for January, 2025. This is view looking north from #UVic. Each day has its own little panel with the 1st in the upper left and the 30th in the lower right.

I write up a little summary of weather in this neighbourhood each month as well. They can be found at https://www.victoriaweather.ca/summaries.php

My youngest who is studying at UVic sent this:

Here's the view looking north from #UVic during December 2024. I've also written up a little summary of the weather. It's posted at https://www.victoriaweather.ca/summaries.php

This is a terrible metaphor to use here.

"We should be able to solve all these problems at the same time, but we can't afford to take our foot off the gas on climate for a few years."

It's really too depressing. People are so short-sighted. I'm about to start teaching a class on #ClimateChange at #UVic and I don't know how to talk about this with the students without being angry all the time.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/does-climate-change-still-matter-bc-1.7411196

Here's the view looking north from #UVic during November 2024.

I wrote of a little weather summary as well. It's at https://www.victoriaweather.ca/summaries.php

If I have time I will post some of the figures and some commentary as replies to this post.

Wondering what the Bomb Cyclone on the Pacific Northwest Coast looked like underwater?

A research camera running near Bamfield on the west coast of Vancouver Island caught footage of how a pacific giant octopus rode it out.

Oceans Network Canada at the University of Victoria shares the video linked in this CBC report.

‘whether it was a positive or negative experience is still open to debate, said Kate Moran, president of Ocean Networks Canada.

"When I first looked at it I thought, 'Wow, this octopus is having a bad day, trying to hold on for dear life,'" she told CBC On the Coast host Gloria Macarenko.

"And then I talked to others on my staff who said 'Oh, maybe the octopus was just trying out this exciting new way the water was moving.' So I think everyone has to look at it themselves to do an interpretation of what was going on."‘

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/octopus-bomb-cyclone-1.7391446

Victor is waiting for the print shop to open. #UVic

I managed to finish my Month in a Minute video for October, 2024. This is the view looking north from #UVic. The day increases to the right and down from the upper left corner.

As usual, my little weather summary for the month can be found at the link below.

https://www.victoriaweather.ca/summaries.php