Category: Wind
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Alert: “brief blizzard-like conditions” possible East Vancouver Island Overnight
Update: 7:45AM Saturday Teresa Pavin, please contact me at alberniweather@gmail.com so we can arrange your snow prize! 🙂 The snow is done for Alberni (the cold is not!) but the snow is still falling in areas south of Nanaimo. Luckily it doesn’t look to be falling too hard. The webcams in Chemainus and Duncan don’t…
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FINAL UPDATE 9:00PM – Wind Warning Continued – 90kph Gusts Possible
UPDATE 9:00PM The Wind Warning has ended. Port Alberni escaped mostly unscathed. Our strongest gust was 54kph around 12:30PM today. Other parts of the Island didn’t fare as well and nearly 33,000 people are without power right now, mostly in the Cowichan Valley. UPDATE 4:00PM The wind warning has been continued for our area. The…
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Hourly Halloween Forecast!
Well, it’s raining right now… and it will most of the day, but the good news is it’s all going to get out of the way by tomorrow for the kids to go get all candied up! Below is the hour-by-hour forecast for tomorrow according to the University of Washington forecast model. Basically, it has us…
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Wet and Blustery Day Tuesday – Break tomorrow… then.
It’s going to be a wet and probably blustery day, especially if you go anywhere outside the Valley. The drive to Nanaimo this morning was 2 parts gusty winds and 1 part standing water. Drive safely out there. The heaviest rain should come in the midday and then taper off through the evening. Wednesday looks…
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UPDATED 9:30PM – Ex-Anna moves north – rain tonight tomorrow – Hopeful for Halloween
UPDATE 9:30PM: The special weather statement has been ended. Solander Island odd the North coast of the Island has reported sustained winds of 60knots (110kph) or more for the past 3 hours . There is still a wind warn for northern sections of the east coast but the worst should be mostly over. UPDATE 2PM:…