I woke up this morning, had a shower, got dressed and went into the kitchen to get some breakfast…. reached for a bowl and there was a flash of light! I stopped… looked down and the cat was looking at me bug-eyed. Then I heard the rumble.

It’s not often we get thunder and lightning in the Valley! Usually our thunder is confined to the Airport on a sunny summer weekend! :)

Todays crazy weather is just the a continuation of the storms that we’re going to have through the weekend and into next week. Don’t know if we can expect more thunder and lightning after today. There isn’t actually any in the forecast at all. But there will be plenty of rain and some more wind coming on Monday as well.

Sounds like Vancouver got a good hit yesterday with the wind. Lots of power outages. And parts of Port Alberni and surrounding areas got small outages as well.

This certainly seems like the first big set of storms since that historic fall of 2006. But don’t worry, we’re not anywhere near what we suffered through that year. I was looking back at my data (“Search Previous Weather Data” below the Highs/Lows) and between November 1 and November 16 2006, we had three peaks of wind over 70kph including two peaks at 90kph and 102kph. Plus, we had 398mm of rain in that period!!

Now that was a storm.