Category: Wet
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Update 4:15PM Tuesday – WINTER STORM WARNING FOR WEDNESDAY
Update 4:15PM – Warning Issued and Timing Below is the updated Warning statement and some predictions on timing. The coles notes version is, drizzle or flurries should start around 3PM Wednesday afternoon. Then assuming we are between 0 and 2°C we should see snow, possibly heavy snow, starting after 6PM. The question this becomes how…
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December and Annual 2016 Summary – Cold and Hot!
December cooled off an otherwise Hot Year. It took me a while to get to this post… lots of stuff going on these days! However, it is worth the wait. Wow, 2016 was another big year for weather! Unlike the world, which had its 3rd consecutive warmest (header image from NOAA) year on record. Port Alberni did…
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Scattered showers over next few days – Ending California Drought?
Thursday, Friday and Saturday all will have scattered showers over the Island as we receive the tailing north edges of moisture that is mainly impacting California as you can see below. They may end up with some flooding down there, but the good news is they might come out of this winter officially at the…
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Quick Update – Times for heaviest rain
The rain has come and boy does it feel nice. 🙂 Just a quick update to give you an idea of when to expect the heaviest rain. We had one strong pulse come through around 6AM this morning. It was raining very hard on the Hump with water pooling on the road. The next strong…
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Freezing Rain possible Monday morning – Heavy Rain expected for next 3 Days
The kink in the jetstream (climate change) has finally untwisted (you can see the faint twist left in the image below) and we are now the target for some very heavy rains dragged across the Pacific from the Phillipines and the Himalayas! It actually makes me wonder how much smog from China might be coming our…