Category: Wind

  • Summer ends with a bang. Wet final days.

    This picture comes courtesy of Heather Mollet. We got yesterday one of the strongest thunderstorms I remember here and I’ve heard a few others say the same anecdotally. Certainly compared to the storms I got to experience in Mexico in July, this one seemed to be a pretty good effort! There were more than a…

  • Special Weather statement: it’s gonna rain.

    Environment Canada issued a special weather statement yesterday afternoon and evening. Here it is: Special weather statement continued for: East Vancouver Island, B.C. (081300) West Vancouver Island, B.C. (081400) Inland Vancouver Island, B.C. (081500) Current details: Significant rainfall after the long dry spell… The more intense front is still expected to sweep across the coast…

  • Big rain Thursday. But good news long weekend!

    We’ve had almost 11mm of rain in the past 24hrs and we are going to get a whole lot more before the end of the work week. But before you think that this month has been abnormally wet, that’s just your summer wishful thinking kicking in. So far we have received 37mm of rain in…

  • Slave to the Jetstream. Wet Seven Days coming.

    I hate to say it, but the variable, but generally pleasant, weather of the past week is going to degenerate into what looks like an onslaught of pacific storms over the next 7 days. As I mentioned on Monday, the Jetstream is sending a strong atmospheric river our way. And when that happens, generally we…

  • Wild and crazy Spring weather

    Spring is always my favourite time of year. Only now do you have the chance to see hail, snow, sun, rain, lightning and wind all in a day, or even a few minutes. And yesterday was one of those days. Lucky for us, the East Coast got it a little worse than us.. We got…