campinspecter started this thread a few years ago and after the awesome sunset last night - Which I DIDN"T get a picture of - I decided to update the thread. From Our Living Room Window I decided to start a new thread but post the link to the old one so newbies' can look back. Here is this morning's pictures. For the last week, we have woken up to fog right up to the end of the property. This morning, the fog was a little lower so we have more of a view. Looking east, there is more fog out on the water. We can't see the mountains on the mainland. About an hour later, it had cleared off somewhat in the bay. We are approaching peak season for boats being anchored out in the bay. A closer look at the marinas. The marina on the left has a huge sailboat which you can only see the mast and a huge cruiser. The yellow pontoon boat in the marina is 50 ft long. You can see the fog just lurking between the point and the island behind it.
Beautiful view! Today as I sat looking out my front window, I got to see my redneck neighbor in his daily summer attire of a tank top, shorts, and socks pulled up to his knees......with an added bonus of his shirtless brother in law being with him. From on fat man to another. Please.put a shirt on if you're 400lbs. Nobody needs to see that!
At 4:00 AM it was still clear out but now at 6:30 AM it is foggy out. We are in outflow conditions from the mainland so we are getting calm, very warm (for us) weather.
Woodwidow you've mentioned several times about the cold wind off the ocean. This makes me curious what your typical weather is like there?
Typical summer weather is temps from 64 to 74 F with fog and calm water in the morning. Fog burns off about 11:00 AM and slowly the sun comes out and everything starts to heat up and then the westerly starts about 2:00 pm. If you are out of the wind and in the sunshine, it is really nice but out in the wind it is cold. It is coming across the water out there that is about 55 F so it doesn't warm up at all until it is over the land. 20 miles inland the air temps are all higher. Our winters are pretty mild usually staying just above freezing with lots of rain and sleet. Very overcast and grey days. That same water is still between 50 and 55 so it could be consider a warming factor in the winter. Wind is from the south east usually. If it switches to westerly in the winter, we get clear and colder weather, down to about 26 - 30 F. Spring and Fall are about the same. Our worst rains come in November and March. Our area usually gets 70 to 80 inches of rain a year. I hope this link works for you. Port Hardy is 30 miles west of us but still on the water. there is a metric and imperial buttons if this link doesn't take to the imperial site. Statistics - The Weather Network
It is easy to see why you like it there. I am the most surprised when looking at the rainfall amounts as I'd expected you to get much more rain. It appears your summer temperatures are very close to the temperatures one expects when near Lake Superior as that lake just does not warm up much. The water temperatures I believe have just now reached the mid 50's point and usually do not get up to 70 by September then start going down. Of course the winters there are very extreme, especially with snowfall. I think the highest amounts of snow are usually from 250" to 325" in typical winters.
On the north western side of the island, rainfall can get up to 200 inches a year. There is a mountain/hill range between us and the west coast which forces most of the moisture to drop before it gets to us. When we were first married, we lived in Holberg which would see lots of wind and rain in the winter. After hearing the weather reports from the lower part of the island the last couple of days with high temps, it makes me doubly glad to be living here.
