Category: Storm
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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.…
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Wind and rain today and Saturday night
UPDATE: 1:14PM Looks like the barometer has bottomed out at 99.3kPa and the wind has picked up on cue. There are power outages in various locations on the East Coast of the Island. Sutton Pass is snow covered, doesn’t look nice. The wind today should stick mainly to the East Coast of the Island but…
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Missed Monday’s Wind… but more coming…
OK… so I got the snow… I got the rain… but where the heck did that WIND come from on Monday night? Wow. That was a doozy! We got up to 77kph here at alberniweather. It’s not actually overly strong for us considering the past 5 years but whenever it gets that strong branches will…