Category: Water

  • Christmas Storm records – Hwy 4 Closed – More Rain Coming

    Christmas Storm records – Hwy 4 Closed – More Rain Coming

    Record set at Airport – 3rd Highest All Time The storm yesterday produced one of the rainiest Christmas days in Port Alberni history. The Airport recorded the most rain ever in its history since 1994 for that day: 70.6mm. As I posted on Mastodon this morning: Only 1929 at Port Alberni City with 80.3 mm…

  • Rainfall Warning – Up to 100mm in Port Alberni

    Rainfall Warning – Up to 100mm in Port Alberni

    Inland – West – East Side Vancouver Island Warnings This is this evening’s model picture from UWash. This is not the super-high resolution version but it is inline with yesterday’s predictions. High elevation regions of the Island will get between 100 and perhaps more than 300mm according to the BC River Forecast Centre. This model…

  • Impressive Storm – Sign of El Niño? – More next week

    Impressive Storm – Sign of El Niño? – More next week

    Alberniweather received 90.9 mm Since October 13th, Alberniweather recorded just over 112 mm of rainfall, most of that fell in 3 days (text data). This compares to 108 mm at the Airport over the same three days. Drought isn’t over. It might feel like it’s over, or seem like it should be because the lakes…

  • Stormy Sunday Night and Monday –

    Stormy Sunday Night and Monday –

    Close Looks at time and amounts Saturday felt like the first day of fall as the weather shifted and the winds picked up. It’s getting us ready for what’s to come. A strong storm in the Pacific that is now approaching the coast and deepening. Right now it’s forecast to be that 98.6 kPa low…

  • Rainfall closes Highway 4 Cameron Lake

    Rainfall closes Highway 4 Cameron Lake

    Update: Road is now expected to open at 5PM this afternoon (Aug 9). Keep checking DriveBC for updates. Quick Update. As you will have seen from the DriveBC status on the front-page and menu bar, the road was closed this morning and will remain closed through the day. The next update is scheduled at 5PM,…