Category: Wet
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God: One Wind and Rain Storm for the Olympics please
Come on, admit it. You’re secretly wishing for it aren’t you 😉 Welcome to Vancouver, Need an Umbrella? 😀 UPDATE: This is getting a little more serious now. As of this morning (Monday) the GFS has increased its estimate up to 210mm Thursday through Sunday. With the largest amounts coming Friday night and Sunday morning.…
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Very Low Barometer… windy tonight
(Update: Did I call it? 😉 Wind Warning now issued for all of Vancouver Island and Lower Mainland… look for the barometer to head towards 97kpa. The closer it gets, the stronger shot we will receive. Up to 80kph) You might have noticed the barometer value up top is in the yellow. That generally means…
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El Nino is finally coming
UPDATE: Flood Watch Ended for Port Alberni thanks to cooler temps/snow in mountains — But Flood Warning for Cowichan Valley issued (details here) As Jeff Masters at WUnderground and many other weather bloggers have said… this year hasn’t been your typical El Nino year in North America. Why? Because we had an exceptionally negative Arctic…
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The rain *is* coming… and other weather news.
So it’s really been a fairly boring start to 2010 so far. Especially considering what we went last year, this year just seems downright normal! (It actually feels pretty normal to me, this is what I remember winters being like growing up). But, do not despair last week the models were saying we’d get a…
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Happy New Year… two weeks of Wet! (and wind?)
So doing my regular swipe through the forecast models today and I came across a beauty of a long range forecast. Basically, our first few weeks of 2010 are going to be wet. And not just a little wet. If the forecast holds (and yes, that’s a big if right now) then between January 1…