Tag: Storm
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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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Rain through the weekend – Hour by Hour forecast.
We have a long bout of rain coming over the next few days so here’s a look at when the strongest bits and breaks might be. Totals from Friday through to Sunday morning should be in the 30mm range for Port Alberni and other inland areas. Friday There was some fairly heavy rain before sunrise…
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Rain Warnings Issued – Storm Timeline
EC has issued rain warnings for all parts of Vancouver Island except the North end. The West side is expecting 150mm of rain and the Inland areas around Port Alberni and Gold River should expect 100mm from this storm. There is also a wind warning for the east side of the Island north of Nanaimo.…
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Happy New Year’s Eve! First look at first rain storm of 2019 on Thursday
I hope all of you have had a chance to spend time with family this Christmas and here we are now, the last day of a very eventful 2018! The weather never stops of course, and we do have what looks like a signficant rain event shaping up for Wednesday night, through Thursday and into…
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Winter Solstice – That Storm – And Snow.
The First Post of Winter! We just passed the Winter Solstice at 2:23PM this afternoon. So in honour of the shortest day of the year, and after the epic day we had yesterday, this will be a short post! 🙂 The picture above is of the highest wind yesterday. It peaked at 82kph (51mph or…