Category: Wet
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First Day of Spring! Windy… rain tapering off.
Quick update(10:20AM): Wind Peak has grown for West Coast for 2PM… Change shown below: 4PM shows 65-70knot (110-130+kph) gusts possible for Tsawassen/Georgia Strait. Ferry cancellations likely. We’ve had a wet night. We have received 30mm of rain since this storm started around 4PM yesterday. Overnight we had bouts of wet snow and I woke up…
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Rain and Wind tonight, blustery tomorrow.
There is rain and wind on the way. The East Coast of the Island is under a modest wind warning. Says EC An intense area of low pressure is moving toward Vancouver Island and will cross the northern tip early Wednesday. Ahead of the low southeast winds of 60 to 80 km/h will develop abruptly…
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More Rain – Warm Temps – and Comet Sighting?
We had quite a blustery afternoon and night last night. The wind hasn’t dipped below 8kph since around 3PM yesterday. It looks like it’s dying off now. The rain will return later today. Now that it is Spring and dry weather isn’t too far away, I shut the valves on our water barrels on the…
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More Rain this week – Arctic Tipping Point
We had quite a nice weekend that has even stretched into Monday morning. (And oh what an early monday morning it was with the time change) On and Off This week is going to be a pretty wet one. There are already rainfall warnings up for the West Coast and for Greater Vancouver. I don’t…
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Sun coming tomorrow – Drizzly day today – Spring Forecast
Not a whole ton going on so the updates are pretty short these days. It’s a pretty drizzly day. Not as much in the Alberni Valley which is nice… but other parts of the Island are seeing some darker skies with soaking west coast drizzle so make sure you have your rain jacket on and…