Category: Storm

  • Updated 11AM Saturday — More details for Thunder during Thunder in the Valley

    Updated 11AM Saturday — More details for Thunder during Thunder in the Valley

    Update Saturday 11AM The morning model has the threat of rain drying up by the 3-4PM hour The threat returns at about noon on Sunday through 3PM. It won’t be much but again probably just enough to halt the races. Update Saturday 7AM Based on the latest model run from friday night, the most likely chance of…

  • Tuesday showers and possible thunder. Fire Risk holds at High.

    Tuesday showers and possible thunder. Fire Risk holds at High.

    It will be quite pleasant again today but a little bit of a change is going to come late in the evening and overnight as a chance of showers develops with a chance of a few rumbles of thunder as well. The rain is projected to arrive after sundown tonight.  In the first image below you…

  • Heat backs off but summer continues. Extreme Fire Danger

    Heat backs off but summer continues. Extreme Fire Danger

    A great run of weather is going to continue into BC Day Long Weekend. By the end of today (Friday) we will have been over 30°C six days in a row.  The highs were closer to the UWash model thankfully than the EC forecast earlier in the week so we didnt get up to 36°C as…

  • Chance of Thunder continues. Watch for downpours.

    Chance of Thunder continues. Watch for downpours.

    We had some nice lightshows Sunday evening but nothing very close to town. The same will probably be true this morning and through the day as there is activity left over all around the Island. The strongest activity is predicted to last through the morning through about 2PM as you can see in the series below.…

  • A Couple more cool days, thunder Thursday before weekend heat

    A Couple more cool days, thunder Thursday before weekend heat

    We were supposed to get rain showers overnight last night, but that didn’t happen.  There will be a slight chance of patchy showers today but the true threat of rain will come overnight again tonight. Will it actually happen? It seems the models have had a really difficult time figuring it out exactly.  We may…