Tag: rain

  • The rains have come – Atmospheric River Thursday and Friday?

    The rains have come – Atmospheric River Thursday and Friday?

    It rained on Friday. It rained on Sunday. It rained this morning. It will rain tomorrow. and Wednesday. All these days did and will feature rain. Thankfully, it won’t be a downpour 24/7 like this time last year as we began our November deluge. But it will definitely rain. By Wednesday we could see up…

  • The Rain has Come!

    The Rain has Come!

    Light, but it’s there. After 20 long, dry, and hot days in October, we are finally receiving our first rain shower of the month. This is the first time Alberniweather has had measurable rain since September 28 (1.3mm) and only the 6th time since July 15th. This station hasn’t measured more than 5 millimetres of…

  • Will we actually get rain this time?

    Will we actually get rain this time?

    Hot Start It’s going to get up to 29ºC today, that’s hot for the end of September (don’t be surprised if we hit 30). What we really want to know how is when the switch will finally get flipped and we get into some fall stormy/rainy weather. It had looked like this week might be…

  • No rain yet. Warm Weekend. Frightening Fiona

    No rain yet. Warm Weekend. Frightening Fiona

    Where’s that moisture? It looks like the rain either hasn’t come yet or is going to miss us completely. A bummer. I was hopeful this morning when we had some strong winds that it would signal at least some moisture falling from the sky. The picture on Windy is looking pretty dry for the mid-Island…

  • Rare May Storm incoming

    Rare May Storm incoming

    Batten down the hatches It’s pretty unusual to have this kind of storm in May at all, let alone the week before the Long Weekend. But here we are. Get ready for what could be a significant wind, and rain event all across Vancouver Island. Here it comes This is the just released forecast for…