Category: Climate Change
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Update 9PM Rainfall Warning Ended — Rain to end around 7PM Sunday – Rain and Flood Warning remains
Rainfall Warning Ended. Flood warning remains. Quick update. 4PM-7PM Picture below shows the strongest amount of rain of the day. So only a couple hours left. 16 mm in those three hours. The Satellite picture of half hour ago shows the back of the front sliding down the island. Between 7-10PM the model shows the…
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One more storm to go – and Testing 360° Webcam
We will dry out a bit Saturday as the rain moves away and the wind picks up behind the front. We might get gusts up to 50kph. While we wait for the next system take a look at the new live webcam. Right now it is living in my upstairs bedroom window but if I…
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Rainfall Warning – Threat of more Flooding continues – Comparing to 2014 and 2015
We are back into the rain this morning. The high res forecast shows up to 30mm is expected between 4AM Monday – 4AM Tuesday in the Valley with up to 60mm falling in the Beauforts and Sproat Lake and over 100mm-150mm in the mountains to the West and NorthWest. I think it is already a little…
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Update Sat 4PM – Flood Warning downgraded to Watch – Flooding Rain Possible Monday after Sunday dry-out.
Update Saturday 4PM The River Forecast Centre just downgraded the Flood Warning for the Port Alberni and Central Vancouver Island Area to a Flood Watch. This is good news in that it should indicate that the rivers will begin to recede tonight and hopefully more tomorrow after the rains end. We still have Monday to…
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October 2016 Summary and Outlook – Most days of rain since 1963 but no rainfall records
It rained all but two days but otherwise surprisingly normal! October was both strange and boring. It was probably one of the darkest Octobers ever in Port Alberni and many other towns across Southern BC as we appear to have set a record for the most days of October with rain. It rained 29…