Tag: rain
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BC Wildfire does away with “Fog Zone” on Vancouver Island. Rain Wednesday.
The big weather related news is the BC Wildfire Service’s change in policy. There will no longer be fires allowed in the “fog zone” along the extreme west coast of Vancouver Island if there are fire bans in place in the rest of the Coastal Fire Centre. Here is their full statement: Fog zone no…
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Flash! – The April 6 2019 Thunderstorm
So yesterday was a pretty great day for weather watchers. We had rain, wind, lightning, thunder, rainbows… a little bit of everything! I was excited to get a chance to download the video from my webcam and find all of the lightning strikes as recorded in real time. I thought it might be hard because…
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Much needed rain to continue all day Wednesday. Break Thursday then returns Friday.
It was very nice to hear the sound of rain pounding down on the roof this morning when I woke up. The rain should continue all day in Port Alberni, though it had stopped in Parksville and Nanaimo when I made my way over the hump. The rain should taper off late this afternoon. Totals…
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RAIN TODAY!
April Fools. It’ll be 21°C today and 18°C tomorrow. But starting Wednesday the rain won’t stop…. no joke! 🙂 The EC forecast is about as wordless as possible so in that spirit. I’m done! 😉 Have fun today! 🙂
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Showers Tuesday then dry until rainy stretch to begin April.
We received a nice bit of rain over the past couple days. You can see it on the 7 day graphs page. The station is still underreporting rain by about 15-20% so I would estimate total rainfall over the past two days at about 10mm. There will be some lingering showers on Tuesday before things…
