Category: Wet
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Soak up Thursday afternoon sun cuz Friday you might get soaked.
Hope you will be able to get outside and enjoy this afternoons unexpected sun and warmth! Tomorrow it looks like it will all come crashing down 🙂 Showers should start right away in the early morning. Here is the 5AM image, you can see the front just passing over. It will get more serious through…
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Torrential rain. Here and elsewhere
A short update. Now that’s rain: Yesterday we got caught in another thunderstorm, the third in the past few weeks. And this time it came with impressive rainfall. We received at Alberniweather 12mm of rain.. Which isnt much. But, we got it in a hurry. As the graph below shows. The rain rate hit 59mm/hr.…
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Summer ends with a bang. Wet final days.
This picture comes courtesy of Heather Mollet. We got yesterday one of the strongest thunderstorms I remember here and I’ve heard a few others say the same anecdotally. Certainly compared to the storms I got to experience in Mexico in July, this one seemed to be a pretty good effort! There were more than a…
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August 2013 recap! Parksville Flash Flood?
It’s time for the August 2013 recap, Salmon Festival and Labour Day weekend edition! Here is the Timelapse! This August might have felt a little cool and wet compared to July, and it was wet, but actually still warmer or near normal for both the 1970 and 1980 thirty year normals for both average and…
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Special Weather statement: it’s gonna rain.
Environment Canada issued a special weather statement yesterday afternoon and evening. Here it is: Special weather statement continued for: East Vancouver Island, B.C. (081300) West Vancouver Island, B.C. (081400) Inland Vancouver Island, B.C. (081500) Current details: Significant rainfall after the long dry spell… The more intense front is still expected to sweep across the coast…