Category: Wind
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Update: Flood Watch Issued for Stamp/Sproat/Somass system—- Sunday Windstorm – Model picks on Bamfield
Updated 11:30AM. Wind warnings ended and unlikely for rest of the day and the rain should be mostly done too. Good stuff! But flood watch still in effect. Updated 9PM: Good News https://twitter.com/alberniweather/status/934638155025629185 Bad News: Flood Watch – Somass River (UPGRADED) ISSUED: November 25, 2017 17:00 PM The River Forecast Centre is upgrading a Flood…
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Heaviest rain and warmest temperatures done. But watch rivers.
It was a deluge yesterday. So far this week we have received 82mm of rain. It was also very warm, it got up to 15.8°C here at Alberniweather and 13.6°C at the Airport. That broke the short term record… but not the all time record of 17.2°C set at the Beaver Creek station on that…
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Rain, Warm temperatures, possible local flooding, and website changes
Apologies for the sparse posting of late. You can blame a combination of having to drive all the way into work, thus taking away bus time which is when I usually post, and working on the website in the backend. Good News! Weather stats should now update everytime you come to the webpage as long as…
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Wind Warning issued for east side of Island – norh of Nanoose
Environment Canada has just issued a wind warning for the East Coast – Northern Sections of Vancouver Island. Here is the text: Issued at 2017-09-16 18:28 UTC by Environment Canada: Wind warning continued for: East Vancouver Island – Nanoose Bay to Fanny Bay, B.C. (081320) East Vancouver Island – Courtenay to Campbell River, B.C. (081330)…
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Human caused Climate Change is in the Air, on the News, all around you.
Earth is a reltively closed system. If you put more energy in, you get more energy out. We are seeing the demonstration of that basic principle now around the world. Today, we have poor Air Quality due to wildfire smoke from fires in the forests all over the Pacific Northwest. The ferocity and expanse and…