Author: Alberniweather
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Soak up Thursday afternoon sun cuz Friday you might get soaked.
Hope you will be able to get outside and enjoy this afternoons unexpected sun and warmth! Tomorrow it looks like it will all come crashing down 🙂 Showers should start right away in the early morning. Here is the 5AM image, you can see the front just passing over. It will get more serious through…
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Torrential rain. Here and elsewhere
A short update. Now that’s rain: Yesterday we got caught in another thunderstorm, the third in the past few weeks. And this time it came with impressive rainfall. We received at Alberniweather 12mm of rain.. Which isnt much. But, we got it in a hurry. As the graph below shows. The rain rate hit 59mm/hr.…
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Summer ends with a bang. Wet final days.
This picture comes courtesy of Heather Mollet. We got yesterday one of the strongest thunderstorms I remember here and I’ve heard a few others say the same anecdotally. Certainly compared to the storms I got to experience in Mexico in July, this one seemed to be a pretty good effort! There were more than a…
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Motorcycle Thunder Saturday, Real Thing Sunday
Unlike Wednesdsy where we overshot our forecast high, on Thursday we just didn’t get there. It got to 28.9C at the Airport and only 27C here at Alberniweather. The forecast and the record, was 31C. The record for today is 31.9C. We are forecast to get to 30C today and tomorrow. The fog is reasonably…
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More than Thirty records broken. More coming. Plus Thunder Sunday.
Of around 110 official stations in BC, I count 37 that set new record highs for September 11. There is a lot of red on the Environment Canada summary page this morning. There is a highlight list here as well from Environment Canada. Port Alberni was not one of those record breakers but we were…