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Light Up Kitimat 2025

Hundreds showed up at City Centre Mall in Kitimat, Dec. 7, 2025 for the Light Up Kitimat Christmas ceremony. That was despite a Yellow Heavy Rain warning. The rain did pour down as Santa arrived in a Kitimat Fire and Rescue truck.

Late November fog and light

Winter weather in Kitimat varies a lot. We had the first heavy snowfall overnight on November 25 to November 26. Then during the day there was rain and fog and thaw. On November 27, it was a bright, cold sunny day.

Crows in wintery weather

For the November bird count, Sunday, November 16, 2025, the weather was not cooperating. Cool, wet with a blowing wind and mixture of rain and sleet. Visibility was poor but in Haisla, at the Kitamaat Village waterfront, a small murder of crows stopped nearby. Veteran birders in British Columbia would call the smaller bird a […]

Red sky at night. The LNG super flare

For the past week or so, the LNG Canada flare has been lighting up the skies night and day through heavy rain, fog and clouds, with the roar of the flames heard across town. It was part of the preparation for the implementation of “Train 2” the second LNG processing unit. On November 6, LNG […]

Morning light

We’ve had stormy weather in Kitimat for days now. Yet when the sun has come up each morning, there is a break in the clouds that produces wonderful golden hour morning light on what’s left of the fall leaves. First two mountain ash with other trees in the background lighting up the silhouette. Number three […]

Blue Jays (the bird) in Toronto

Three file photos of blue jays in my old backyard in the Pocket in Toronto, two in tree spring 2008, one on the fence May 2010, in honour of the baseball Blue Jays in the World Series.