Category: Wet
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More rain all day Friday, showery weekend. Flood Watch Update.
Short update after a hectic couple days: First, the River forecast centre has now ended a Flood Watch for the Somass and tributaries. We will get another days worth of rain today. Not as strong as Wednesday but still plenty. It should taper off by mid morning on Saturday but there will still be showers…
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Update Thursday 8AM Very Rainy Wednesday – Possible Wind – Runoff in the Watershed
Flood Warning & Watches issued by BC River Forecast Center after last night’s #BCstorm FMI: http://bit.ly/KaF1ou http://twitter.com/EC_BCweather/status/692759365363826688/photo/1 Update 8AM Thursday – Rainfall Warning Ended. Issued at 2016-01-28 15:13 UTC by Environment Canada: Rainfall warning ended for: West Vancouver Island, B.C. (081400) Inland Vancouver Island, B.C. (081500) Current details: Significant rainfall is no longer expected.…
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Rain Starting Tuesday Morning – More Wednesday – Crazy Winter Weather elsewhere.
We’ll stay mostly dry to start the work week this morning however, things will pick up on Tuesday morning when the first of 3 rain waves come through. The first wave will start before 4AM Tuesday. But it should end before 4PM in the afternoon Tuesday. A second stronger system will move in around 4AM Wednesday.…
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Significant rain coming late Wednesday through Thursday
Rainfall amounts of up to 60mm are possible between Wednesday and Thursday evening. We haven’t seen this strong a rain event since early December. Below is the 24hr chart. The rain will begin around 10PM tonight and intensify overnight with the heaviest rain coming between 1-4AM. It will rain all through Thursday and into Friday…
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Final Update 8AM Sunday – Final Storm of December procession could be biggest.
Final Update 8AM Sunday – Warning Over. A look at wind around the Island. Environment Canada has removed the Wind warning for our area. Once again, yesterday has proven that predicting high winds in Port Alberni is exceedingly difficult. Our top gust at Alberniweather was only 38kph while Maquinna school got up to 58kph. Warnings…