Rain will begin Friday afternoon – Continue Saturday/Toy Run morning

Unfortunately, the warm beautiful weather is coming to an end.  We had a perfect sunrise this morning.img_3308

But, as the adage goes… “Sunrise in morning, sailors warning”.

And we certainly do have something coming at us:

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We can expect the main band of rain showers to reach us by around 5PM tonight

Most of the rain today will be hitting the North Island.

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But it will slide down toward the south Island this evening after 5PM.

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And then the unsettled mess behind the first system will spread more forcefully across the entire south coast on Saturday morning.

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The model shows the Alberni Valley not being the hardest hit, but still getting about 8 mm of rain between 5AM Saturday and 5AM Sunday.

Rain Scale

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And then another 8mm on for the following time period Sunday.

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More rain is coming for Monday.  Fall is a few days early!

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