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Mise Tales Forty-Seven

October 23, 2014antiques, deck prisms, lighthouse, litehouse, quilts, weather, wind, wine bottleAdvertisement, Art, Construction, Environment, Equipment, History, Hobbies, Lighthouses, Ornaments, Souvenirs, WeatherretlkprLeave a Comment

For an update on what a Mise Tale is then please see Mise Tales One. As mentioned earlier on the front page of my website, any photos or cartoons, or short bits of information, when it is removed from the front page, will also be included again later in the next next Misc Tales posting. That way you can keep track […]

Animated Map of Global Wind Conditions

January 19, 2014lighthouse, litehouse, weather, winds, worldwideAircraft, Boats, Environment, Equipment, Information, Lighthouses, Weather, WorldwideretlkprLeave a Comment

One of the duties of a lighthouse keeper is the reporting of the weather for the boats, aircraft and also for forecasting. One of the things reported is the wind speed. From all around the world the wind speed is recorded and reported from countless weather stations. Below are two screenshots of a new webpage […]

Mise Tales Sixteen

November 22, 2012cards, greeting cards, lighthouse, litehouse, screensaver, symbol, wallpaper, weather, YoWindowAdvertisement, Facebook, Information, Lighthouses, Photos, WallpapersretlkprLeave a Comment

For an update on what a Mise Tale is then please see Mise Tales One. Lighthouse Greeting Cards Earlier in November I reprinted two stories on the Cape Canaveral lighthouse (story 1 & story 2) by Judy Lovell. One thing you might have missed on her website are her Greeting Cards featuring lighthouses, antique maps and lighthouse […]

A Trip to Scarlett Point c. 1973

June 2, 2012Albert | Konkle, fishing boat, lighthouse, litehouse, Scarlett, Scarlett Point, seas, visit, weatherAdult Memories, British Columbia, Canada, Fishboats, Keepers, Lighthouses, Old Website, On The Job, Storms, Transportation, Travel, Videos, Visitors, Weather, WomenretlkprLeave a Comment

– as told to me by Jean (Bartle) Konkle (daughter of relief keeper Albert Bartle) I remember going to Scarlett Point one Easter Weekend, the first time we (my husband Rodger and I) had been there. We traveled ten long dusty hours up mostly gravel road to Port Hardy . There we planned to catch […]

Weather Observing – a Large Part of the Job

May 8, 2012AES, CG, EC, Equipment, F&O, lighthouse, litehouse, weather, WXAdult Memories, Anti-Automation, Automation, Coast Guard, Communication, Equipment, Fisheries and Oceans, Fishing, Fog, Government, History, Information, Lighthouses, Old Website, On The Job, Radio, Search & Rescue, Ships & Shipping, Shipwrecks, Storms, WeatherretlkprLeave a Comment

Note:- How to obtain an up-to-date weather report from a BC lighthouse One of the duties on most of the lighthouse stations, and especially on McInnes Island, up to 2003, was the reporting of local weather (weather visible in the immediate area of the station) to Environment Canada (EC) – earlier called the Atmospheric Environment Service […]

The Storm of October 1984

April 5, 20121984, BC, extreme, lighthouse, litehouse, MCI, McInnes, McInnes Island, Ogden, storms, tropical storm, weatherAdult Memories, Anti-Automation, British Columbia, Coast Guard, Communication, Keepers, Lighthouses, News, Old Website, On The Job, Radio, Recreation, Ships & Shipping, Storms, WeatherretlkprLeave a Comment

The article I posted earlier about the storm at Cape Scott brought to mind a story I had written for the old website. This story (below) brought to the attention of the government one of the important attributes of BC lighthouse keepers – they are on-site! ************************* On Thursday October 12, 1984 Roger Mogg (my […]

The Wise Raven

February 13, 2012birds, feeding, lighthouse, litehouse, McInnes Island, morning, raven, weather, wildlifeAdult Memories, First Nations, Lighthouses, Weather, WildliferetlkprLeave a Comment

The following video came in an email today and it brought back memories of the ravens that lived near my old lighthouse at McInnes Island. Ravens are very intelligent! I was on the early morning shift for most of my time there. I loved it! Every morning very early (about 03:00) I walked from […]

COOLTAP

December 9, 2011COOLTAP, EC, Environment Canada, lighthouse, litehouse, reporting, weather, WXAnti-Automation, Canada, Information, Lighthouses, On The Job, WeatherretlkprLeave a Comment

Environment Canada (EC) has a cooperative/volunteer climate network weather collection project called COOLTAP.(Cooperative Online Temperature and Precipitation Entry System). It is a web-based Data entry system website where daily weather data is entered and used. All that is required is an internet-connected computer to input the data. NOAA (USA) uses a similar data collection program called […]

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