Tag: rain
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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15cm on the ground – What’s Next – More Flurries, Snow. Warmer and Rain starts Saturday.
Welcome to winter. It’s been so cold and snowy since December 21st it’s hard to believe we’re not even a month into winter! Last night’s winter storm definitely delivered on everything that was predicted. Rain, sleet, lots of snow, and some freezing rain for us, (thankfully not too much) but a lot more freezing rain…