sa oe

“thal work in August, or at

‘ STAYING DRY: Andra Geller and Gryela Thomas”

‘ pose under a child's Kermit the frog umbraila while
‘watching a wet soccer game in late August.

Rain broke
yet another
record here

IT DIDN’T just rain fast
month, it poured,

According to recent
weather statistics, the Ter-

. Yace airport broke a 39-year-
old precipitation record for
August.

The total precipitation was
189.6 millimetres — 31 mil-
limetres more than previous
record-breaking August sei
in 1978 when 158.4 mil-
limetres of rain fell.

The average rainfall in
Terrace for August is 583
millimetres.

“You doubled that,”’ said

Giselle Duhamel, applied
climatologist with Environ-
meat Canada. ‘You guys
really beat it.’’

As for temperatures this
summer, Tertace has experi-
enced slightly ~—colder
weather than normal, but
it’s, nothing significant,
Duhamel said,

“You had a typical July,”
she said.

The incredibly wet sum-
mer Terrace experienced
can’t be blamed on La Nina
or global warming, says
regional climatologist Eric
“Taylor.

La Nina, a weather
phenomena involving the
cooling of the topical pacif-

ic, is often used as a
scapegoat to explain bad
weather, Taylor said,

But in studying 30 years
of weather, he said La Nina
has never influenced a sum-
mer,

“So you can rule that
out’’ .
And global warming can
be ruled out too because
July’s weather would have
fo have been affected too,
which wasn’t ihe case.

“There doesn't seem to be
a reason for the heavy rain-

sewer
pipe
repair
delay

t

' REPAIR of the sewage out-

‘fall pipe that malfunctioned

- during flooding this summer
may have to wait until De-
cember, says city director of
ctgincering Stew
Christensen.

A rainy summer has meant
the water level of the river
hasn’t fallen to the point
where the clty can send
divers in (0 assess the prob-
Iem,

The city had hoped to do

leasl by September.
“The river has stayed up
high,’ Christensen said.

“It’s got to clean up and it’s
got to go down a whole lol

“more before we can do the

work.’*

T'n afraid we're going to
get Into the fall rains before
it happens,’* he added. “We
may not be able to get in
there and do the fix to that
pipe,”’ .

That would mean the
repair work would likely
have to waii until December

or January, he added,
It would result in sewage
continuing to flow

downstream close {o the
riveybank, rather than being --
carried by the outfall pipe:
well into the river. ~

ae

fall,” Taylor said.

He blamed the downpours
in Terrace on tbe unprcdict-
able and lawless aimo-
sphere,

“‘The atmosphere is a very
chaotic system,’’ he said.
“It doesn't always do’ the
same thing every year.”’

It appears that’ the Farm:
er’s 1999 Almanac was cor-
rect this year, predicting that
June through August would
be cooler and rainier than
normal, duc to a cool damp
June.

The Almanac prophesizes
that temperatures in Sep-
tember and October will be”
near ty slighily above
normal,
normal rainfall.

The last hot speii of the
season is expected in mid-
September. It warns of
heavy rain in late September
and mid-to late October,

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