Category: Storm
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90mm and counting. Will end this evening
The heavy rainfall warning continues. We can expect another 20-30mm through the day today. Weve already received 30mm since midnight and 90mm since midnight Tuesday. The rain is finally starting to abate in Tofino. They received an incredible 230mm (9 inches) yesterday and are near 260 total (10 inches). That has to be near a…
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Snow pushed back to Wednesday night
While there does look to be a bit of snow coming starting Tuesday, and it is nearly guaranteed to be all white, the models are pushing back the main chunk of precipitation until Wednesday night and Thursday morning now. I’ve found another great website with fast loading model forecast animations here: (I recommend using the…
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Weather is never boring to tweet! Record High Barometer.
Something very unusual happened overnight Wednesday night. The barometer just kept going higher, and higher. It finally topped out at 1045.9 millibars (104.59 kiloPascals or 30.88inches of mercury). The high pressure was caused by a very strong ridge of high pressure that has taken hold over BC and the North East Pacific. I got some…
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Rain Ending — then Dry, possibly Sunny!
The rain will finally end this morning. It will likely stay cloudy but the wind may break up the clouds a little bit and give us a glimpse of sun before it goes down before 4:30PM. The models are seriously optimistic! They have us getting into a very dry spell, but unlike what we got…
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A breather – then Round 3… As bad as Round 1?
Get out and enjoy the crisp sunshiny day today… (I’m counting on no fog forming of course!) We have our next round of the pineapple express coming our way. It has a whole bunch of tropical miosture in it that has already thrown a warning up for the West Coast for rain up to 120mm.…