Finally, one really nice observation from last April was that it was exceptionally sunny. I think we probably all enjoyed that!
The graph shows percent difference of the accumulated solar energy as an anomaly of the average for all months. In other words, bars going up are relatively sunny and this year has the highest bar, 15% sunnier than we expected.
Rain at #UVic was quite low this year. Is it worrying? Maybe. Rain in the Spring is really important since climatologically we don't get much in Summer. A dry Spring increases fire risk and stresses our water supply system.
It was warmer than usual, but not by much, and not the warmest April I've observed at #UVic.
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 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.
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.
#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
We've been thinking about radiation in the #ClimateChange course I teach. On my way to #UVic this morning I took this photo to use as a pop quiz today.
Why is there frost around but not below the tree?
It's 08:00, about the time of sunrise.
Also: #cyclists. The roads were OK, but frost was heavy in places and made for a few slippery patchs (stop lines, cross-walk paint).
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
November 2024 rain at #UVic. I removed the three highest years when I calculated the average. This is an ad hoc decision that I made so that the difference from graph was more useful. The highest rain months are characterised by strong atmospheric rivers which are different from the typical rain events we see.
November 2024 temperatures at #UVic compared to the long-term record there (2002–present).
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
