Tag: wind
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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…
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Already minor flooding from rain. Wind Warning mentions Port Alberni specifically. Ferries cancelled.
It begins The storm is here. I have already recorded 40mm of rain on my station since midnight. Maquinna elementary has recorded 55mm. For the rest of the day, the most recent information will be at the top of this page and on twitter. Send in your reports by including the #alberniwxstorm hashtag on twitter…
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More strong Rain and Wind Coming for Thursday.
Have you had enough rain? Since last Wednesday the Alberni Airport station has reported 262mm in the 7 day period! Normal for the whole month of December (1981-2010) is 344.6mm. Environment Canada has issued a Special Weather Statement for the storm tonight. I expect we will easily beat that normal rain amount this month, if…