Category: Storm
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Rain is coming, but big differences in amounts! Fall begins tonight.
I hope everyone enjoyed the last full day of summer yesterday. We broke another short term heat record! We officiall reached 28.7°C at the Airport. The record at the Airport station was 28.5°C set on September 21, 1999. It was a couple degrees shy of an all time record. First… Welcome back Kids! My daughter…
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The Wet Weekend that Wasn’t – Possible Thunderstorms Tuesday
It wasn’t nearly as wet as many thought it would be this weekend… today we might get some thunderstorms and this week we should get back to nice warm weather in time for Fall Fair! (Come find me along with a couple other councillor hopefuls at our booth in Glenwood!) Today (Tuesday) Possible Thunderstorms: The gods…
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Stable, warm week – going with your gut on stormy weather.
Another quiet, warm week: There just isn’t much to say about the forecast this week. It looks like another pleasant, mostly sunny week with warm temperatures and no chance of rain. The jetstream is staying mostly to the north of us allowing warm air up from the south. It will slip down a little later…
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Slight Chance of Thunderstorms/rain today and Friday. Great weekend!
The pleasant weather is set to continue! There is a slight chance of thunderstorms this afternoon as you can see in the purple areas of the image below. As you can see though, most of the risk will be on the East coast of the Island. There will be some showers related to this stormy…
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The Lightning Storm No One Predicted – 135 strikes – fires – loggers – seagulls
(Todays, tentative, forecast is at the bottom of this post) Remember 24 hours ago when we all thought it was going to be another beautiful “mainly sunny” day with highs up to 30ºC? Well, that fantasy didn’t last past 11AM. Port Alberni was assaulted with what I can only call from my time growing up…