Just yesterday I compared current winter (blue line) with previous one (orange line), current winter has been much warmer, although last winter was already pretty mild. The rupture in blue line in December was caused by defective batteries, that I bought in October, they depleted with 2 months (usually a set of batteries lasts ca 1 year). But missing part of the month was pretty constantly at +5C / 41F, so a way warmer than previous winter.
It's been another rather uninteresting year regarding weather averages at Vancouver Airport (YVR). Most of the 30 year averages have barely moved; but, at least, last winter's minimum temperature was above -10 C, allowing my Feijoa bushes to survive the winter in good shape without winter protection. So, here are the graphs for yearly average, maximum temperature, winter minimum temperature, and total precipitation.
I found these charts hard to bring up unless I went off the site and then on again. I have to admit that I don't see 2022 statistics that relevant.
I don't know what you are looking at, but all of these charts are for 2025. I posted 2022 charts in January, 2023. Did you try double-clicking the charts above?
Here in Nan00se Bay, BC, we somehow escaped excessive rainfall during the recent 'atmospheric river'. Yesterday however, we were treated to an incredible, howling wind storm. I can't prove it but I think my immediate neighbourhood was pummelled more than most. Two large fir trees uprooted in my place, somehow missing both the building they were right beside and also the power lines. My close neighbour too had a huge fir tree come down. His was closer to the street and managed to take out all the power lines on the other side. It took hours for crews to clean up the mess and restore power. The storm lasted over 9 hours and the power was out for 8 hours. Now, I have to figure out what to do with that root . . . maybe plant ferns in it? Ideas, anyone?
This kind of overturned stumps are dangerous, so better don't use it as a decorative element (especially after it gets separated from the tree trunk). After cross cutting the trunk, this stump needs either turning back upright position or to be completely removed.
In August 1967 there was very strong storm in Estonia. Lots of forests were just devastated (2.5% of Estonian forest was thrown over or broken down in this storm in one night, the affected timber volume was larger than the volume of all fellings in the year). As it was the Soviet time, Ukrainians were sent to help to harvest those laying on the ground trees. Several of them lost their lives under such stumps.
