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September 10^th

Council Meeting – part 2

While there was some ‘debate’ with implications for role of Council – I will return to it another day --- here Sister City theme continued with Owase Japan

	Owase Japan
	If sign on Kazu Maru Memorial correct, then Owase has been Prince Rupert’s ‘sister city’ since 1960s --- See Wikipedia article

Kazu Maru (now located in Mariners’ Park) was found on West side QCIs in March 1987--- as sign says the amazing ‘co-incidence’ is that ’25 years previously’ Owase (where ship originated) was made sister city to Prince Rupert ---

	Province has published yearly policing stats (227K PDF)
	Rupert has the distinction of replacing Smithers as the ‘Crime leader’ regionally Below left I use number of vandalism offences (reported) – and below right I compute the rate based upon population – thus making the different sized municipalities more comparable See my 2006 previous

	Playing with Weather stats
	Hard to remember one year’s August to the next --- the surprise is the real wet year was August 2008 and the driest in series was 2007 (if the numbers can be trusted) Source from YPR airport data

August Precipitation
2009	140.5*	1 missing
2009
2009
2008	0
2008	1
2008	0
2008	0
2008	0.5
2008	M
2008	0
2008	0
2008	0
2008	0
2008	9.5
2008	21.5
2008	75.5
2008	27.5
2008	0
2008	0
2008	0
2008	1
2008	5
2008	M
2008	0
2008	0
2008	53.5
2008	54
2008	11
2008	16
2008	8.5
2008	1
2008	2.5
2008	0
2008	0
2008	288.0*	2 missing
2008
2008
2007	0
2007	0
2007	0
2007	0
2007	0
2007	0.5
2007	1
2007	5.5
2007	0
2007	0
2007	0
2007	0
2007	0.5
2007	0.5
2007	0
2007	2
2007	0.5
2007	0
2007	0
2007	0
2007	0
2007	0
2007	0
2007	2
2007	7
2007	2.5
2007	0
2007	0.5
2007	27.5
2007	4
2007	4
2007	58.0E	1 estimated
2007
2007
2006	24
2006	6
2006	0
2006	6
2006	7.5
2006	0
2006	5.5
2006	11.5
2006	0
2006	0
2006	0
2006	1
2006	16.5
2006	4
2006	0
2006	0
2006	0
2006	1.5
2006	0
2006	0
2006	2
2006	0
2006	0
2006	0
2006	0
2006	0.5
2006	8.5
2006	17.5
2006	4.5
2006	0
2006	6.5
2006	123
2006
2006
2005	4.5
2005	0
2005	10
2005	4.5
2005	0.5
2005	0
2005	0
2005	0
2005	0
2005	0.5
2005	0
2005	0
2005	0
2005	0
2005	0
2005	0
2005	0
2005	0.5
2005	24.5
2005	20
2005	14.5
2005	7
2005	0
2005	0
2005	3
2005	1
2005	2
2005	4.5
2005	3.5
2005	15
2005	5
2005	120.5

	More playing with numbers
	This year is another El Nino – which surprisingly is supported by the monthly average temperatures (as to left) While 2008 looked fairly average – 2005 was another strong El Nino year I did not (so far) pull out the 2007 averages to see if it was also as strong an El Nino as rainfall implies (Source Data)

Year	Day	Max	Min	Mean
2009	1	16.4	12.4	14.4
2009	2	17	11.3	14.2
2009	3	17.1	10	13.6
2009	4	20.2	11.2	15.7
2009	5	26.1	10.2	18.2
2009	6	17	10.7	13.9
2009	7	18.4	12.1	15.3
2009	8	17.1	13.7	15.4
2009	9	14.2	12.1	13.2
2009	10	15.7	11.7	13.7
2009	11	15.3	11.6	13.5
2009	12	17.4	10.7	14.1
2009	13	13.5	7.8	10.7
2009	14	16.1	10.4	13.3
2009	15	16.4	12	14.2
2009	16	17.7	13.2	15.5
2009	17	14.7	12.7	13.7
2009	18	15	13.4	14.2
2009	19	20.9	12.2	16.6
2009	20	17	11.4	14.2
2009	21	15.4	10.9	13.2
2009	22	13.7	11.4	12.6
2009	23	15	11.3	13.2
2009	24	14.3	11.7	13
2009	25	14.6	11.4	13
2009	26	18.2	10	14.1
2009	27	21.6	12.6	17.1
2009	28	18.1	14.1	16.1
2009	29	20.1	13.6	16.9
2009	30	16.9	10.1	13.5
2009	31	16.6	8.7	12.7
2009	Sum
2009	Average	17	11.5	14.3
2009	Extreme	26.1	7.8
2008	1	14.7	6.8	10.8
2008	2	15.6	11	13.3
2008	3	14.3	7.5	10.9
2008	4	15.5	10.8	13.2
2008	5	17	9.5	13.3
2008	6	17.4	9.7	13.6
2008	7	15	9.7	12.4
2008	8	15.6	10.7	13.2
2008	9	15	11	13
2008	10	16.8	11.5	14.2
2008	11	15.9	13.1	14.5
2008	12	17.5	13.5	15.5
2008	13	15.8	13.5	14.7
2008	14	22.3	13.8	18.1
2008	15	18.4	12.7	15.6
2008	16	18.5	11.8	15.2
2008	17	16.4	12.5	14.5
2008	18	19.5	12.5	16
2008	19	16.6	12.4	14.5
2008	20	17	11.1	14.1
2008	21	18.1	8.6	13.4
2008	22	15.7	13.3	14.5
2008	23	15.7	13.1	14.4
2008	24	15.2	10.7	13
2008	25	15.4	10.3	12.9
2008	26	13.1	9.9	11.5
2008	27	13.5	10	11.8
2008	28	14.6	10.6	12.6
2008	29	14.2	9.9	12.1
2008	30	15.1	11.2	13.2
2008	31	14.6	8.4	11.5
2008	Sum
2008	Average	16.1	11	13.6
2008	Extreme	22.3	6.8
2007	1	19.5	10	14.8
2007	2	19.8	12.9	16.4
2007	3	17.1	12.9	15
2007	4	17.3	12.3	14.8
2007	5	17.8	11.5	14.7
2007	6	17.2	12.2	14.7
2007	7	15.7	11.8	13.8
2007	8	17.7	11.7	14.7
2007	9	17.9	9.6	13.8
2007	10	18.1	11.3	14.7
2007	11	18.4	12.3	15.4
2007	12	17.4	13	15.2
2007	13	18.9	10.7	14.8
2007	14	17.7	9.7	13.7
2007	15	24.1	10	17.1
2007	16	21.9	12.1	17
2007	17	19.3	11.5	15.4
2007	18	17.3	12.4	14.9
2007	19	18.1	9.9	14
2007	20	19.5	12.5	16
2007	21	19.7	10.7	15.2
2007	22	18.1	11.4	14.8
2007	23	18.3	11.2	14.8
2007	24	14.9	11.6	13.3
2007	25	15.2	10.9	13.1
2007	26	17	11.3	14.2
2007	27	18.9	8.9	13.9
2007	28	17.5E	12.6E	15.1E
2007	29	17.9	13.3	15.6
2007	30	17.3	12.5	14.9
2007	31	16.3	12.1	14.2
2007	Sum
2007	Average (E)	18.1	11.5	14.8
2007	Extreme	24.1E	8.9E
2006	1	15.7	11.3	13.5
2006	2	16.1	10.8	13.5
2006	3	16.4	10.1	13.3
2006	4	16.8	8.7	12.8
2006	5	15.2	11.9	13.6
2006	6	17.2	11.4	14.3
2006	7	14.7	12.2	13.5
2006	8	15.4	11.9	13.7
2006	9	16.1	11.2	13.7
2006	10	16.9	9.4	13.2
2006	11	16.1	11.8	14
2006	12	15.2	11.7	13.5
2006	13	15.1	12.2	13.7
2006	14	16.3	11.8	14.1
2006	15	17.7	10	13.9
2006	16	17.2	9.5	13.4
2006	17	15.2	11.6	13.4
2006	18	16.5	12	14.3
2006	19	18	8.5	13.3
2006	20	17.7	7.8	12.8
2006	21	15.8	11.8	13.8
2006	22	17	9.3	13.2
2006	23	16.5	10.8	13.7
2006	24	17.9	11.8	14.9
2006	25	17.6	10.5	14.1
2006	26	17.4	11.1	14.3
2006	27	16.7	9.6	13.2
2006	28	14.7	11.5	13.1
2006	29	15.7	10.9	13.3
2006	30	14.5	12.2	13.4
2006	31	13.9	11.3	12.6
2006	Sum
2006	Average	16.2	10.9	13.6
2006	Extreme	18	7.8
2005	1	17.7	11.9	14.8
2005	2	19.8	10.6	15.2
2005	3	15.5	12.1	13.8
2005	4	16.7	13.2	15
2005	5	17.2	13.5	15.4
2005	6	19.1	12.6	15.9
2005	7	18.2	10.3	14.3
2005	8	21	11.6	16.3
2005	9	19.6	13.4	16.5
2005	10	27.9	12.3	20.1
2005	11	19.3	12.3	15.8
2005	12	18.6	12.4	15.5
2005	13	17	12.8	14.9
2005	14	16.7	13.4	15.1
2005	15	19	14.1	16.6
2005	16	18.5	13.9	16.2
2005	17	18.8	11.8	15.3
2005	18	19.5	14.2	16.9
2005	19	19	14.1	16.6
2005	20	16.3	12.8	14.6
2005	21	17.7	12.5	15.1
2005	22	15.6	12.8	14.2
2005	23	17.6	11.5	14.6
2005	24	16.7	9.1	12.9
2005	25	19.8	10	14.9
2005	26	17.5	13.1	15.3
2005	27	19.2	13.5	16.4
2005	28	18.2	11.7	15
2005	29	16	11.4	13.7
2005	30	17.2	12.4	14.8
2005	31	15.7	11.8	13.8
2005	Sum
2005	Average	18.3	12.4	15.3

	Kronos?
	Would need the binoculars to confirm name Kronos is at Anchorage B awaiting to load coal – according to Port Authority

Created by LG on 11/9/2009

Last updated on Friday, September 11, 2009