New research done this past summer helps confirm the risks of The Big One striking off Vancouver Island.
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https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/cascadia-subduction-zone-imaging-1.7235949
Quite a bit of snow in the mix on the radar around Central VI. If you are driving today take care on the mountain passes. You might see some rain/snow mix particularly heavy rain could turn quickly to wet snow.
Calm before the Christmas Storm 🎅
We should see it on the radar by 5AM. Expect rain and/or wind by 10AM
Stay Safe out there and Merry Christmas!!🎄
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55kph top speed last night.
12:35AM and then again in the 4AM hour.
Will be a blustery day and night before the major storm comes in Christmas morning.
Here are some graphs from the data.
Sit spot. If you're wearing rain gear. New blog post: https://wanderinweeta.blogspot.com/2024/12/stormy-weather.html #VancouverIsland #BCWeather #Weather #Rain #Seascapes
Special Statements likely to turn to Warnings
Environment Canada has release a Special Statement covering most of the South Coast warning of a series of storms lasting from today through Boxing Day. It is a long one, so I will only link it here.
Expect storms on Monday, Wednesday and Thursday with and possibly rain warnings issued.
Monday Stormy Night
Most of Monday should be calm during the day. The system will approach tonight and deliver rain overnight, starting around 10PM.
It will have gusty but not severe winds.
Tuesday Christmas Eve blustery day
We will get a blustery break from the rain with SW winds in the morning on Tuesday as a weaker section of rain passes down from the North.
Expect rain on the mid island by noon and into the afternoon.
We should have scattered showers with some breezy conditions on Christmas Eve and overnight into Christmas Day, which is when the bigger storm comes in.
Christmas Day Storm
A major rain and wind storm impacts the entire Island starting Christmas morning. It’s a doozy.
It has a ton of moisture with it and strong winds likely up to 90-100kph on the West Coast. EC is also predicting some storm surge from this event so combined with the seasonal high tides the ocean coastline will have higher water than normal.
Heavy rain and Southerly winds peak in the afternoon and evening.
You might want to get that turkey in the oven a little early! There will be a good chance for power outages in the afternoon and evening.
The good news is the system moves through reasonably quickly. The rain should stop and the winds die down before midnight on Christmas.
Boxing Day more rain and wind.
The party doesn’t stop at Christmas.
Yet another system will come in and deliver rain and strong winds on Boxing Day afternoon.
The rain should be a little less but the winds should be about the same as the previous storm the day before so there will be more opportunities for power outages and ferry cancellations.
This storm will last through the evening Thursday but clear by Friday morning.
Friday night final punch
One last weaker system will move in late Friday night and deliver rain and blustery but hopefully not severe winds.
Another weaker system might roll in Saturday night next week but that will be the end of our parade of Christmas storms!
An eventful week!
Merry Christmas to all of you celebrating. Have a wonderful time with family and friends.
Winter Solstice occurred this morning at 01:20 PST.
Today is officially the shortest day of the year and the first day of Winter.
The sun rose this morning at 08:11:29 and will set at 16:23:52 so our exact daytime for this shortest day is 8h 12m 23s.
Stay dry out there! It's going to keep raining pretty much through Christmas! May have a storm coming on Sunday/Monday. I'll post an update before then.
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Waiting right now at Nanoose Bay (across from Canadian Forces base CFMTR) for word on Philippine leaving Pat Bay #yyj to try to come back home to #PortAlberni for Christmas (and likely more extensive repairs) before another attempt to go South. She may land here if needed.
The weather is not terrible, but there is a stiff S or SE breeze, whitecaps on the Bay. Ceiling is reasonably high but probably not good enough to get into the Alberni Valley.
