Category: Storm
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Flood Watch Issued for Vancouver Island
Including, this time, the Alberni Valley. Since it is Island wide, I will let you go check it out for details on other parts of the Island. Here is the information most relevant to Alberni area residents: Quote starts: Weather forecasts indicate the front pushing onto north and central Vancouver Island today, bring moderate to…
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Storm #3 and #4 on the way… and what’s up with the Sleet?
So the next few days we’re going to be in for another 100mm of rain and some more wind. The fun never stops! It shouldn’t be as crazy as last nights wind or the weekends rains… but it will be more none the less! What I find more interesting is that on my way up…
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Heavy Rainfall Warning and Flood Watch Issued
Wind and Rain warning has now ended, I’ll blog again tonight… there are still flood warnings out and there is more wind and rain forecast for tomorrow, we reached 82kph at Alberniweather and 99.7kph down at the Harbour Quay weather station run by UVic. Hope everyone come out of it OK. I’ll let Environment Canada…
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Thunder rumbles in the Valley!
I woke up this morning, had a shower, got dressed and went into the kitchen to get some breakfast…. reached for a bowl and there was a flash of light! I stopped… looked down and the cat was looking at me bug-eyed. Then I heard the rumble. It’s not often we get thunder and lightning…
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Eve gets her wish! Had to call in a report today
So we got up to 70kph this evening (18:20). That’s the point where I have to call in to Environment Canada as a Severe Weather Watcher. Which I did. The forecaster on the other end of the line sounded reasonably impressed. Obviously since they didn’t issue a warning for our area, they weren’t looking for…