Tag: Wet

  • Christmas Storm records – Hwy 4 Closed – More Rain Coming

    Christmas Storm records – Hwy 4 Closed – More Rain Coming

    Record set at Airport – 3rd Highest All Time The storm yesterday produced one of the rainiest Christmas days in Port Alberni history. The Airport recorded the most rain ever in its history since 1994 for that day: 70.6mm. As I posted on Mastodon this morning: Only 1929 at Port Alberni City with 80.3 mm…

  • Snow?

    Snow?

    We’re getting a bunch of precipitation on Saturday. That’s a definite. The question is what kind. The model has the snow (in green below) staying in the higher elevations and the rain (in greys and blacks) in the low lands including Port Alberni. This is the picture for the start of the storm around noon…

  • Atmospheric River Incoming – Major Rainfall Monday and Tuesday

    Atmospheric River Incoming – Major Rainfall Monday and Tuesday

    Pineapple Express On the Way It’s on the horizon. The picture below is the forecast for Monday 1-4PM. As you can see, the tail of the moisture reaches far to the southwest. Hawaii is in the bottom-left corner. I real Pineapple Express! Timing: Two Hits – Small Sunday Morning – Big Monday/Tuesday We’ll see this…

  • Data Offline Today – Remembrance Day Forecast – El Niño Outlook

    Data Offline Today – Remembrance Day Forecast – El Niño Outlook

    Data offline Unfortunately something happened around 4AM this morning and my weather station stopped talking to the computer that updates this website. I’ve tried a few things remotely with no success so I’ll have to wait until later tonight to see what the problem is. Hopefully it’s nothing too serious like the 15 year old…

  • Impressive Storm – Sign of El Niño? – More next week

    Impressive Storm – Sign of El Niño? – More next week

    Alberniweather received 90.9 mm Since October 13th, Alberniweather recorded just over 112 mm of rainfall, most of that fell in 3 days (text data). This compares to 108 mm at the Airport over the same three days. Drought isn’t over. It might feel like it’s over, or seem like it should be because the lakes…