Category: Storm
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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…
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UPDATING – Lightning brings Power Outages – Fire at Mill and Arbutus Ridge
Update 3:21PM – Apparently the fire in Dry Creek was human caused, but still waiting to hear a definitive answer. In the meantime, thanks Nikki for submitting a great video of todays thunder! Update 2:50PM – Now reports of a fire in Dry Creek Area. PAFD are responding. If you have any updates or pictures…
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Red Sky This Morning, Rain Warning (for some)
It was a nice 2nd earliest Standard time sunrise this morning. Remember we “spring ahead” this Sunday morning. As the saying goes, the red sky warns of storms ahead, and today it is indeed true. By sunrise tomorrow we should be in full swing with some of our heaviest rain of the year. There is…