Category: Wet
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Quiet week – Wild Rain in Vancouver
It’s going to be a fairly quiet week with reasonable temperatures and the odd rain shower here and there. Nothing serious. The interesting weather happened yesterday afternoon in south and east parts of Vancouver where over 90mm of rain fell in just a few hours! It will be interesting to see if any records were…
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Top Three in Canada yesterday. Cooling off and wet this weekend.
What a day yesterday! We got a real taste of summer with an official high at the Airport of 29.6°C. This was 3rd in Canada to Ashcroft (which broke 30) and Lytton. These highs did not break the 1998 record (31°C). Here at Alberniweather we got up to 29.8°C and boy was it nice at…
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Welcome to May! How about 29°C today?
It got up to a balmy 25°C yesterday both at Alberniweather and officially at the Airport. The record was 28.5°C in 1998 so we didn’t get there, but still not too shabby. Today will be even hotter though. Considering we have consistently out performed the forecast high by a degree or two every day we…
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Wet all day, but drying out a little Saturday. Heat next week?
The forecast continues to be a wet one. Expect intermittent showers all day today, lightening a little tonight and then continuing all day Friday. Around 16mm is forecast between this morning and Saturday morning. More rain comes Saturday night and Sunday. It is starting to seem like a long time ago when we had that…
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No Tsunami threat from strong Earthquake.
We had a strong earthquake 6.6 (now downgraded from 6.7) in the waters near Vancouver Island 40km West Port Alice. There have also been two relatively strong aftershocks, 5.0 and 4.2. It has been widely felt but it doesn’t sound like any damage is being reported and there is no Tsunami Warning or Watch at…