Month: September 2009
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Major Power Outage
There has been a major power outage in Port Alberni. Looks like the entire City and surrounding Valley plus Ucluelet, Tofino and Bamfield are dark. Must have been a big event that caused it, but it wasn’t any weather that I heard about. I’m in Nanaimo right now at work. There won’t be any current…
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The Drought has Broken for now!
Check out that radar image, that’s a doozy of a rain front. EC says we’ll be getting at least 15mm of rain tonight, there was nearly a rainfall warning issued for the West Coast (Uke/Tofino), they’re expecting up to 50mm overnight. So to put it all into perspective, since September 1, we’ve received 16.5mm of…
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An unwelcome change
It must be Labour Day weekend! We’re getting rain. 😀 We’ve had rain for the past 3 Labour Day weekends. I feel bad for the fisher-folks trying to have a nice morning on the water, but hey, they say the fish like the rain. In the weather department, we should get a little wind on…