Category: Water
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New Podcast Up – Where we’re at with the Atmospheric River and River Watches
Check it out – Please do Like and Subscribe No blog post tonight except to announce the latest Podcast. But have you felt that warm wind! 12.5ºC as I was making the Podcast. And more rain coming Wednesday after a break on Tuesday. Details in the video: Thanks for watching. You can subscribe to the…
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Post and Podcast – Expecting 75mm or more – Atmospheric River – BC River Forecast Centre issues Flood Watch
Podcast is up You can see the latest Alberniweather.ca Podcast here: Subscribe to the Channel! River Forecast – Data Shows High Flows I’ve been looking at the latest data from the water meters on the Sproat and Ash rivers near Port Alberni. The current data shows the levels and discharge rates rising to 1y-2y period…
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Christmas Storm records – Hwy 4 Closed – More Rain Coming
Record set at Airport – 3rd Highest All Time The storm yesterday produced one of the rainiest Christmas days in Port Alberni history. The Airport recorded the most rain ever in its history since 1994 for that day: 70.6mm. As I posted on Mastodon this morning: Only 1929 at Port Alberni City with 80.3 mm…
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Rainfall Warning – Up to 100mm in Port Alberni
Inland – West – East Side Vancouver Island Warnings This is this evening’s model picture from UWash. This is not the super-high resolution version but it is inline with yesterday’s predictions. High elevation regions of the Island will get between 100 and perhaps more than 300mm according to the BC River Forecast Centre. This model…
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Impressive Storm – Sign of El Niño? – More next week
Alberniweather received 90.9 mm Since October 13th, Alberniweather recorded just over 112 mm of rainfall, most of that fell in 3 days (text data). This compares to 108 mm at the Airport over the same three days. Drought isn’t over. It might feel like it’s over, or seem like it should be because the lakes…