Rain, Rain, Go Away....

I am resisting buying a rain protector for my camera but the rain has been so persistent these days it is difficult to take photos for fear of drowning the equipment. Oh well, we're only a few days away from the winter solstice on the 21st, an important milestone for me. I always feel a sense of relief when we are heading back to warmer weather, moving closer to the sun every day. Although the weather won't likely improve appreciably until March, after the solstice it seems like we are on the downhill run to spring.

Thanksgiving Weekend

The rain came down in buckets yesterday morning as a reminder that autumn has really and trully arrived. Our little dog sure didn't seem to want anything to do with all this wet stuff at first but once we got underway seemed to enjoy it. - Fern

Rain

Rain today a bit of a shock after last week's long string of sunny days. Oh well, it'll bring mushroom season along that much quicker.

All Sailings Cancelled

What a weekend! Victoria has been hit with stormy, wet weather and it has been fierce. Me and my four legged friend however braved the elements to try to capture how things look on the water. - Fern

Ogden Point Breakwater

We haven't been for a walk on the breakwater for such a long time and even though it was raining we decided to go for it. There was absolutely no wind so the water was calm and you could hear the big, fat rain drops hitting the water. Quite cool. - Fern

Raindrops

Here is a selection of the raindrops I saw this morning. It's also been very misty for the last three days, unusual for Victoria. Because Victoria and Vancouver are so close people assume the weather is the same. Victoria is generally much drier (about 600 mm of rainfall per year compared to downtown Vancouver's 1,500 mm p.a.). Sunshine hours reflect this as well with Victoria getting about 2,200 hours of sunshine p.a. versus Vancouver's 1,800 hours. Though many of us feel that this is mostly a result of how good and deserving Victorians are, it seems the meteorologists prefer to credit our relatively low-lying landscape, which allows rainbearing clouds to float overhead towards Vancouver where they are brought up abruptly by the mountains and loose their loads on the city below. I just hope our rain passes by tomorrow since I am looking forward to the annual Vic West Corn Roast, another of my favorite annual events.

Christmas Shopping

This post isn't so much about Christmas shopping as it is about our weather lately. In a word, it is wet. I tend to scuttle from place to place with my head down. Anyway, here's a shot of our main street, Douglas Street, at a downtown intersection on the 16th of December, 2009. I hope your Christmas shopping is going along OK.