Category: Storm
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Dry Saturday, Showers Sunday. “Historic”, “Explosive”, “Catastrophic” Hurricane Patricia to hit near Puerto Vallarta
We have quite a nice weekend shaping up for us. After the fog burns off in the morning we should get mostly cloudy skies today and then maybe some sunnier skies on Saturday. There will be a weak front coming through on Sunday morning that might bring some showers before noon but it will be…
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Aloha Oho – Ex-Hurricane delivers up to 150mm by Thanksgiving Monday?
Looks like we have another tropical river setting up and another ex-Hawaii Hurricane feeding moisture to us in the next few days including over Thanksgiving. Hurricane Oho (NOAA Page here) is a Category 1 Hurricane currently losing steam near Hawaii. The interesting part is it’s predicted path. This is a 5 day track (to 2PM…
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August 2015 Summary and Outlook – Fire – Heat – Rain – Wind
So after a bit of delay due to the insanity of the start of the school year, here is the August 2015 Summary and Outlook for the next few months. August again was defined by fire, and I have compiled some interesting statistics on that front. Even though it still felt pretty hot and dry (we…
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Happy Labour Day! A very short visit from Ignacio. First day of school forecast.
I hate to disappoint you but we need not worry too much about the remnants of Ignacio. It looks like the remnant low (swirl below) will get dragged into Haida Gwaii Tuesday afternoon by the jetstream but won’t pack much rain with it. Vancouver Island will only see a few whisps of rain from that event…
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Waves of showers through week drying by weekend
After all the excitement on the weekend, this will be a short post today in preparation for the August Summary. We will have showers on and off all week until Friday. It looks like we might clear up Saturday and Sunday which should make for a decent Labour Day weekend and beyond. Our total rainfall for…