Comments on: Heavy Rainfall Warning and Flood Watch Issued

By: Tazz

Tazz — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 03:13:03 +0000

Well…I know it does not count for out here…but my deck is white with the stuff from above….big nasty flakes…quite cool as well.

By: Bill

Bill — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 00:46:15 +0000

Actually I cheated. It’s from the airport station, but I got the information from the much-maligned Weather Network. They get their information from EC, and they have a very easy to use tool for looking up historical statistics – you can search by day rather than just monthly. Since you asked, I double-checked for 2006 on Environment Canada’s Daily Observation site, and it matches TWN exactly. EC is sometimes a few days behind on the information though, so Nov 14, 15, and 16 aren’t posted for 2009 yet.

By: Eve

Eve — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 00:44:35 +0000

I think your graphs have been stuck a while.

By: Chris (admin)

Chris (admin) — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 19:07:36 +0000

Is that from the airport station Bill?

I am sure that my station might be under-reporting a little compared to 2006 as the rain bucket is a little more exposed to the wind than it was back then. But it should only be out by 20-30mm I would think… the heaviest rain would have still hit the tipper had it been there. We just didn’t get the downpours in town that we did that year.

By: Bill

Bill — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 19:03:21 +0000

Environment Canada’s precipitation figures are:

Nov 1st – 16th 2006: 433.2mm

Nov 1st – 16th 2009: 439.4mm

By: Chris (admin)

Chris (admin) — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 17:55:10 +0000

I hope I didn’t catch too many people out… I noticed this morning that US imperial units were acting very badly on the website and uncovered a couple other bugs as well. It’s all fixed for now. I’ve turned off US imperial support completely. Hope it didn’t wreck anyones viewing too much.

Cheers. Chris

By: Chris (admin)

Chris (admin) — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 16:31:49 +0000

Yep. It’s certainly flirting with the 2006 season. I’m willing to bet that if we had data from Courtenay it would look very much like our data from 2006. This year we got the wind, they got more of the rain and flooding.

Back then for the same period:
Totals and Averages
rain: 428.75mm
hi rain rate: 50.55mm/hr
high wind: 103km/h

By: Kat

Kat — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 16:07:29 +0000

i just looked at the statistics for Nov 1 – 17, 2008 vs. this month. So far we have had nearly twice as much rain this November as last. (298 mm vs 155mm)

By: mark

mark — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 13:15:21 +0000

Wierd

Calm steady wind for a while and then furiuos bursts of wind,and not to much rain!….?

I took the day off to baby sit my house so I hope That it gets worse……….:)

Mark

By: mark

mark — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 12:32:55 +0000

Good ol body clock woke me up at around@4am to go to work……no power.

Back up battery for my sump pump dead.Powered up the generator .Man o man is it blowing hear way out the creek.
Thank gosh I woke up!

good luck all

Mark