Category: Wind
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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…
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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…
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First Day of Spring! Windy… rain tapering off.
Quick update(10:20AM): Wind Peak has grown for West Coast for 2PM… Change shown below: 4PM shows 65-70knot (110-130+kph) gusts possible for Tsawassen/Georgia Strait. Ferry cancellations likely. We’ve had a wet night. We have received 30mm of rain since this storm started around 4PM yesterday. Overnight we had bouts of wet snow and I woke up…
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Rain and Wind tonight, blustery tomorrow.
There is rain and wind on the way. The East Coast of the Island is under a modest wind warning. Says EC An intense area of low pressure is moving toward Vancouver Island and will cross the northern tip early Wednesday. Ahead of the low southeast winds of 60 to 80 km/h will develop abruptly…
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More Rain – Warm Temps – and Comet Sighting?
We had quite a blustery afternoon and night last night. The wind hasn’t dipped below 8kph since around 3PM yesterday. It looks like it’s dying off now. The rain will return later today. Now that it is Spring and dry weather isn’t too far away, I shut the valves on our water barrels on the…