Tag: wind
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Environment Canada wins – Drive Safely on the East Island
Update: Snowfall Warning Issued for Nanaimo/East Island Strait-Effect Snow is occurring. EC refers to it as “snow streamers off the Strait of Georgia”! 5-15cm is possible especially away a little further inland (Coombs, Errington, Jingle Pot, etc) https://weather.gc.ca/warnings/report_e.html?bc46 Treacherous Highway 19 and parts of Highway 4 A quick post to say be careful out there!…
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One more snowy blast? Not seeing it…
Do you? Perhaps the model at UWash is totally out to lunch and wrong but it sure doesn’t see snow or even any precipitation at all after Tuesday. It has most of the moisture leaving the Island by 7PM tonight. There is a small pocket that appears in the very early hours of Thursday morning…
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Rain collector unclogged – just in time for – snow?
A seedy situation Once the rain finally stopped last weekend, I ventured into the yard to get the ladder and get up on the side of the shed to inspect the rain collector. And there it was… full to the brim with water. Obviously it can’t measure much water if no water is flowing through…
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Another stormy night and wet week.
Monday afternoon and evening rain Rain is already falling in most places and it will pick up steam through Monday afternoon and into the evening. The main thrust of this latest front will happen in the 1-4PM period and should be accompanied with some strong southerly or southeasterly winds as well. Wind and rainfall will…
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California Experiences Massive Atmospheric River – We Get Waves of Rain
California currently in crisis. North and Central California are in the midst of an Atmospheric River event that will seem very familiar to anyone who lived through the AR events here in BC and the Pacific Northwest. Well, it looks like this time the firehose has been pointed a little further south. Look at that…