One of the most important tasks lightkeepers have is to observe and report local weather. Starting at 4:30am, we report continuously every three hours until 10:30pm (DST). Our data is accessible here:
Lightstation Weather Reports
All stations provide local marine weather for mariners.
At Nootka, we also provide supplementary weather reports for aviators (cloud levels and density, and relative humidity.) In addition, we do climate observations: maximum and minimum temperatures, and the amount of rainfall/snowfall, and enter it into Environment Canada's cooperative/volunteer climate network weather collection project -- COOLTAP. This helps to create long range forecasts.
In 2013-2014, I worked as a relief lighthouse keeper for a year on the coast of British Columbia. I traveled by boat and helicopter into these stations and stayed for a length of time. Each station is different. There was always one principal keeper and I would be there to do the duties of the assistant keeper. We each had our own house. As romantic as it sounds, we did not live in the light;) This blog chronicles some of my adventures and the history of these remote locations.
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3 comments:
Another good reason to maintain staffed lights!! Cheers.
Exactly. Thanks Neal, for your support!
That is not Pachena, That is Carmanah Point.... I lived there, and at several other stations
Cheers
Steve Noble
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