Category: Storm
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East Coast gets dumped on, our turn Wednesday?
Bundle up on Monday the wind will be cold. If you were on Facebook or twitter last night you would have seen us chatting about the dumping that Nanaimo and other East Coast communities got. The low pressure that was supposed to go right over our heads instead slid south and brought easterly and northeasterly…
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UPDATED: Chances for snow increasing… Wind coming
Mondays forecast changed a bit… check it out: It has been an interesting past couple weeks. Our weather pattern has been pretty consistent with shots of rain and precipitation every few days. Slowly but surely though, perhaps just as a sign we are approaching the start of winter, the temperatures have cooled. Last night there…
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Updated: New view of not-so-heavy rains
Update: Eagle Eyed commenter monty noticed a big error I made in interpretating the graphics below. They are in 100ths of an inch! not mm. Doh!… I have updated, and included appropriate conversions. What the heck is an .05/100ths of an inch anyway?? THe graphics are still pretty… but mixed units? Fail. It’s always fun…
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The rain cometh
There is quite an impressive looking low sitting off the coast. It’s going to sit and brew out there for a while and then head up to the North Coast to give them some high winds. Down here, it will deliver a warm, and wet southwesterly flow. We should get around 60mm between now and…
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Solander howls but missing us
There is a major storm hitting the North Coast. It’s not giving us much trouble here though there will be wind on the East Coast and plenty of rain. The real action is happening on the water where there is a Hurricane force wind warning for the North section of West Vancouver Island. True to…