Author: Alberniweather Blog (Chris)
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Update 8AM Saturday: East Side Wind and Rain Warning – 30-60mm Rain coming by Saturday Afternoon — Hope for Christmas?
Update 8AM: The heaviest wind and rain is yet to come, but there are no warnings posted for our area. There are warnings for the East side of Vancouver Island. 80kph and 50mm expected. Happy Last Minute Shopping! 😉 Sorry for the late morning post, I wanted all the models to be out before…
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Interesting 1935 Historic Flooding Photos in AVTimes
There is a cool short article in the AV Times this morning. It includes this iconic picture from the very useful AV Museum archives of flooding of the Somass River along the old River Road. Unfortunately it’s not clear the exact date, but it does seem to be January 1935. So I went looking at the data for…
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Updated 9PM: More rain off and on, then concerning rain Saturday/Sunday.
Updated 9PM Wed: It may not stop raining. Seriously, check it out yourself… The latest UW model indicates less than 1 or 2 one hour periods between Thursday at 11AM and Sunday at 4AM where rain will not accumulate. The GFS model over at Spotx is a little more kind, but still predicts 100mm between…
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Showers today and Tuesday, more Thursday and Saturday.
The fog should give way this morning to clouds and showers starting around noon. The totals will not be large. Only around 4 mm is expected today up to 4PM and then another 8 mm expected up to 4PM on Tuesday. We have more rain coming Thursday night, maybe 16mm and Saturday night. The Saturday…
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Record Breaking November 2014 Summary and December 2014 storm. Most intense 4 days recorded?
A fairly warm November but with some record breaking cold streaks… tons of records broken, low and high! And then there is what happened the first week of December! Wondering about the cover image? This post was brought to you (unofficiallly) by the word EXTREME… or at least the 80s band…. hahaha. (this is what you get when…