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30 degrees

The balance tipped on May 1st for the weather again here and some are saying that 30 degree celsius weather is expected this week-end will have us “complaining about the heat”. It seems that people are seldom completely pleased with the weather. One thing we are pleased with is the absence of pollution here. All the Bee hive burners are gone from decades past. The local garbage system has a modern land fill with no burning and standards of daily constant burial. The city has an enviable flower and plant program with beds maintained all summer. The Community’s in bloom program often has legs.

We in our impatience for time to go on should be comforted by Shakespeare’s darling buds of May that always seem to be on time here but only in retrospect.

The long-range forecast here calls for 24 degrees on Sunday with 27 on Monday . It seems that the weather and the psychological balance have both tipped.

http://www.theweathernetwork.com/weather/canada/british-columbia/merritt

Today in History: May 2, 2012

A pastel version of The Scream By Norway‘s Edvard Munch  sells for 120 million dollars.

Wind

coldwater hotel

Image by waferboard via Flickr

Saturday night here in Merritt was a windy one, as shown by copper plates missing from the dome of the historic Coldwater Hotel. The AW also had some signage in the Nicola River on Sunday AM.

Wind speed is measured in kilopascal and they make a difference to local building codes as well as insurance policies.

A station is at Kelowna ,its been operating since 1953, A-1123970 at 49.95 degrees north by 119.38 east at 430 meters.

 Editors note:Enviroment Canada put a station here last year on a site that came available by a new water well for the city on land purchased from a ranch of Nicola Avenue. the well was part of the BC Canada infrastructure program.

You can find current conditions here: http://m.weatheroffice.gc.ca/city/pages/bc-49_e.html

Today in history, January 30,1972

Pakistan withdraws from the Commonwealth of Nations.