Category: Wind
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Spring has Sprung?
This is a pretty easy forecast to make this time. There is a whole lot of moisture out in the Pacific just waiting to come drench us. It won’t be torrential rain, but it will be steady. The strongest pulse of rain looks like it will be on Saturday and Sunday. Today though it will…
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A Chilly Wind Blows
Yes it’s still Winter folks. Spring is still (as of this writing) 17 days and a few hours away (March 21 16:21PST) That means until then we really can’t complain if we get a little more snow, can we? OK, sure we can… we’ve had a fair amount of various forms of the white stuff…
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UPDATE 3: Windstorm on the Way – 100kph+ expected
UPDATE 3: 10:15AM Just as I was typing the last update we got a gust to 95kph. There are reports of trees down in Beaver Creek and wires down near TIm Hortons. Please be careful out there. Stay way back from any downed power line… and stay in your car if something is down across…
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UPDATE 2: Damaging Wind Storm Wednesday
UPDATE 2: As if the forecast isn’t crazy enough already, you can add a snowfall warning for the East Coast of the Island. They could get up to 10cm of snow tonight before the craziness starts tomorrow! HAH! Maybe it’ll be a blizzard. Oy… like I said, batten down the hatches. The wind warning has…
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Extreme Wind Event – Dangerous Winds Wednesday
I will have more updates after work today. But I felt compelled to post the 11AM forecast and Wind Warning as we have a potentially destructive wind event on the horizon. The local forecast: “Tonight: Rain or snow changing to snow or rain late this evening. Snowfall amount 5 cm. Wind becoming southeast 40 to…