Category: Storm
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Rain returns late Monday evening. Showers Tuesday/Wed. Rain Storm Wed Night
11AM Flood Warning Maintained Current text: Flood Warning – Somass River (MAINTAINED) ISSUED: November 27, 2017 11:00 AM The River Forecast Centre is maintaining a Flood Warning for: Somass River including Sproat River, Ash River and tributaries A series of frontal systems moved over Vancouver Island last week and over the weekend, saturating the soil…
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Update: Flood Watch Issued for Stamp/Sproat/Somass system—- Sunday Windstorm – Model picks on Bamfield
Updated 11:30AM. Wind warnings ended and unlikely for rest of the day and the rain should be mostly done too. Good stuff! But flood watch still in effect. Updated 9PM: Good News https://twitter.com/alberniweather/status/934638155025629185 Bad News: Flood Watch – Somass River (UPGRADED) ISSUED: November 25, 2017 17:00 PM The River Forecast Centre is upgrading a Flood…
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Heaviest rain and warmest temperatures done. But watch rivers.
It was a deluge yesterday. So far this week we have received 82mm of rain. It was also very warm, it got up to 15.8°C here at Alberniweather and 13.6°C at the Airport. That broke the short term record… but not the all time record of 17.2°C set at the Beaver Creek station on that…
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High Streamflow Advisory Issued
See the previous post for details on the rain. I will update this post if there is anything else significant that changes. The River Forecast Centre has issued a High Streamflow Advisory for our region. You can see updates directly here. The Current Advisory (Nov 21 1:41PM) High Streamflow Advisory – Vancouver Island ISSUED: November…
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Rain, Warm temperatures, possible local flooding, and website changes
Apologies for the sparse posting of late. You can blame a combination of having to drive all the way into work, thus taking away bus time which is when I usually post, and working on the website in the backend. Good News! Weather stats should now update everytime you come to the webpage as long as…