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🌡️#VernonBC Weather - 2023 May 🧵
May was on metaphorical 🔥: the North Okanagan saw dense wildfire smoke from the north and temperatures that soared almost 5°C above monthly normal! Five daily temperature records fell (going back to 1901); meanwhile, the 2023 drought continues… Northern BC and Alberta wil...The smoke arrives over Vern...
#VernonBC May 2023 Temperature Summary
Average: 17.9°C (Normal: 13.1°C)
Maximum: 32.4°C (Normal: 19.7°C; Extreme: 34.5°C)
Minimum: 6.9°C (Normal: 6.4 °C; Extreme: -5°C)
❗️Mean temperature was a whopping 4.8°C warmer than normal❗️ Daily maximum, mean, and mi...Mid-month heat wave drove t...
#VernonBC Spring Heat
Vernon has had it's hottest May ever using the Cooling Degree Days metric! Many #Okanagan-#Shuswap stations saw new daily Tmax records, including five in #VernonBC!
[Cumulative Cooling Degree-days (A heat exposure metric summing daily average T>18°C)]. Cooling degree days are a h...
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We tend to talk about bats as if they were all identical in appearance, habitat, and habits. But that’s far from the truth.

@Cori_Lausen, @wcscanadabats director, talks about 4⃣ Western Canadian #bats in @ecofriendlywest: tinyurl.com/4prrnkk2 🧵
1⃣. Spotted Bats have black fur with 3 large white spots on their rump and shoulders as well as smaller white patches at the base of their pink ears, which are as long as their body. They are found in dry desert regions of the southern #Okanagan and are extremely rare. (cont'd)
Unlike many other bats, the Spotted Bats’ echolocation sounds can be picked up by the human ear as they are typically producing sounds as low as 7-12 kilohertz that sound like a series of clicks.
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In my career, I have never been more concerned than I am for what this province will face in the next ~36 hours.

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#BCwildfires
There is the chance of (some) rain for a few areas by Sunday night / Monday, but between then and now we will have to navigate one of the most volatile combinations of natural and human factors that many of us have ever seen.
An unprecedented wildfire season, our second major heat event, and the looming fourth wave of the pandemic are coalescing in to one critical period.

And: short of a complete and unseasonal weather shift, we have at least another month of wildfire activity ahead of us.
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