Category: Wind
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Difficult week to predict
You may notice this post is tagged, cold, wet, wind, and storm. We could get it all. First, Monday: Today will stay cold and dry. The latest NAM and GFS model runs agree that there is more chance for snow on the East coast, (coming off the Strait) than there is for Port Alberni. But…
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Final totals from the storm – UPDATED
(EC has posted the values for the 3rd for Tofino see below) You may have already read some of this in the AVTimes today, but here it is in full. Unofficially, the rain for the 3rd is in record territory for Environment Canada in the Alberni Valley but not an all time for the month…
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A breather – then Round 3… As bad as Round 1?
Get out and enjoy the crisp sunshiny day today… (I’m counting on no fog forming of course!) We have our next round of the pineapple express coming our way. It has a whole bunch of tropical miosture in it that has already thrown a warning up for the West Coast for rain up to 120mm.…
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Wind and rain today and Saturday night
UPDATE: 1:14PM Looks like the barometer has bottomed out at 99.3kPa and the wind has picked up on cue. There are power outages in various locations on the East Coast of the Island. Sutton Pass is snow covered, doesn’t look nice. The wind today should stick mainly to the East Coast of the Island but…
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Missed Monday’s Wind… but more coming…
OK… so I got the snow… I got the rain… but where the heck did that WIND come from on Monday night? Wow. That was a doozy! We got up to 77kph here at alberniweather. It’s not actually overly strong for us considering the past 5 years but whenever it gets that strong branches will…