Tag: rain
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Rain relief coming! Risk of thunderstorms Thursday and Friday.
Good news! The models shifted a bit and now there is at least a little bit of moisture expected on Wednesday! The models are showing rain sweeping onto the Island Wednesday morning. It’s not huge and it’s mostly on the North Island, but it’s there! The precipitation reaches Port Alberni and central VI later Wednesday…
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Mixed bag of spring weather. Proper Rain coming Wednesday. Crows perched defiantly.
Apologies for the late post today. The website was down for unknown issues with my host. We are in for a pretty classic Spring week of weather. It was raining when I left this morning but it is sunny this afternoon. If you can stay out of the breeze there is some warmth there! We…
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BC Wildfire does away with “Fog Zone” on Vancouver Island. Rain Wednesday.
The big weather related news is the BC Wildfire Service’s change in policy. There will no longer be fires allowed in the “fog zone” along the extreme west coast of Vancouver Island if there are fire bans in place in the rest of the Coastal Fire Centre. Here is their full statement: Fog zone no…
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Flash! – The April 6 2019 Thunderstorm
So yesterday was a pretty great day for weather watchers. We had rain, wind, lightning, thunder, rainbows… a little bit of everything! I was excited to get a chance to download the video from my webcam and find all of the lightning strikes as recorded in real time. I thought it might be hard because…
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Much needed rain to continue all day Wednesday. Break Thursday then returns Friday.
It was very nice to hear the sound of rain pounding down on the roof this morning when I woke up. The rain should continue all day in Port Alberni, though it had stopped in Parksville and Nanaimo when I made my way over the hump. The rain should taper off late this afternoon. Totals…