Year: 2013
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More Rain – Winter totals – Climate Change?
Welcome to the first day of (Meteorological) Spring! The rain should taper off this until around noon and then will pick up steam again and really get going around 2 or 3PM when the Pineapple Express firehose points squarely at us. It should taper off overnight before delivering its final, somewhat weak blow on Saturday…
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Grab a Cocktail – Here comes the Pineapple Express
Update 8:30PM: Incredibly it is still only 3C but the rain has definitely come. Steady 5-6mm/hr rain rate and 17mm so far today. An impressive 46mm has fallen already in Tofino. Plenty more to come. This wave will last until morning then we might even see the sun before another wave comes in the afternoon.…
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Special Weather Statement issued for Thursday/Friday/Saturday rain storm
Environment Canada issued the following statement… It’s also worth noting their mention of freezing levels which means it will be raining on the mountains too. Pineapple express rainstorm expected Thursday night through Saturday. ——————————————————————— ==discussion== A pineapple express-type rainstorm will develop across the South Coast of BC on Thursday. A warm Pacific front will tap…
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Fog, a break, the Rain storm.
The fog should hopefully break this morning. If you were following on Facebook or Twitter lastnight you would have seen folks reporting the wet snow as it started t come down, in buckets at times. It was pretty ugly. Astrid Braunschmidt from CTV posted this snapshot from the hump. Yuk. We may get some more…
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Wet Week Ahead – Winter Normals
After a great Saturday, we had quite the Sunday with constant rain and some of our strongest winds of the winter. We received 35.3mm of rain on Sunday and we’ve got 114.8mm so far for February which is about half the 234mm we normally get in February. In fact, while we are on the topic…