Category: Wet
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Week ending on a Stormy note – Plenty more Rain and possible Wind coming
The beat goes on my friends. By Thursday 10AM the rain will have begun again. It will have cleared up by 7PM. There is also a Wind warning for West and East Vancouver Island. No warning for our area however the UWash model indicates the most likely time for strong winds is between 4 and…
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Heavy rain on Highway 4 – Vancouver Climate talks the worst we can do for the economy and climate is nothing.
Update 7PM The Ministry of Transportation has announced that the truck will be removed from Cameron starting Wednesday at 6AM. No indication how long it will take so expect delays. #bchwy4 vehicle recovery tomorrow, Cameron Lake , expect minor delays 6am onwards #portalberni @TranBC pic.twitter.com/06alQrPukJ — Vancouver Island District (@TranBCVanIsle) March 1, 2016 Update 6PM So…
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Happy Leap Day! Earth gets a speeding ticket. Rain Tuesday.
It is February 29th, 2016! A leap day. Why are there leap days? It used to be just so you could figure out when the Olympics were happening, but they messed that up when they decided to split up the Wonter and Summer Olympics. OK, so not really the reason. Leap days are used to…
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Record high Thursday. Rain to starting Friday. Saturday OK. Wet Sunday.
It has been a pretty beautiful week overall. So beautiful in fact that we broke a record at the Airport for February 25. The old record was set in 2008 at 12.5°C. We reached 14.5°C officially at the Airport and over 15° here in the city. We will fond out next week when I do…
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Significantly less rain total expected from UWash vs. EC
Looking at the forecast totals for rain over the next couple days and I am seeing significantly different rain total amounts. Environment Canada is predicting 10-15mm tonight and another 20mm on Friday in their text forecasts. Compare that to the UWash WRF model that is only predicting up to 16 mm (blue) to fall in…