Weather Appreciation

[tsayta]

Lol. Never gonna happen

[tsayta]

Anyone remember hurricane Freda (or something like that). 1960s blew down tonnes of old growth on the north shore mountains in Vancouver

[Queen K]

Oh God, and I was thinking of Tofino area for five days coming up.

I don't travel much ya know.

Thanks Oho. For nothing.

[Glacier]

It looks like hurricane Oho could be about to give BC the ride of her life. Here's the picture from The Province:



Here is the projected path:


Here is a map showing all past tropical storms:

[tsayta]

Yikes!

[Glacier]

Yikes!

The comments are pretty funny. "It looks like we are in for a pounding."

http://www.theprovince.com/technology/p ... story.html

[tsayta]

ROFL

[Woodenhead]

non-event here (hurricane)

[tsayta]

Broke the balsa wood framed radar tho

[Symbonite]

The comments are pretty funny. "It looks like we are in for a pounding."

http://www.theprovince.com/technology/p ... story.html

ya there was some lightning this evening....Very windy to...
I guess we might be in for a pounding if the clouds roll back into the valley and it will come in hard....from what i hear.

[Glacier]

non-event here (hurricane)

It hit the north coast. It was pretty windy last night in the Okanagan (34 km/h at my house).

Here's how strong the wind gusts were on the north coast:
Green Island = 153 km/h
Kindakun Rocks = 131 km/h
Triple Island (not to be confused with Triple 6) = 130 km/h
Lucy Island = 128 km/h
Holland Rock = 117 km/h
Grey Islet = 113 km/h
Rose Spit = 107 km/h
Sandspit = 100 km/h

Rain: kitimat = 120 mm
Terrace =70 mm
Stewart = 58.3 mm

[Woodenhead]

non-event here (hurricane)

It hit the north coast. It was pretty windy last night in the Okanagan (34 km/h at my house).

Yeah, no biggie here though. Decent downpour for 15 minutes or so, then nothing again. A bit of wind. Nothing to write home about.

I honestly miss getting actual strong storms more often, like back in the Great Lakes area. The weather is boring here. haha ;)

[Glacier]

I honestly miss getting actual strong storms more often, like back in the Great Lakes area. The weather is boring here. haha ;)

The weather in the Okanagan (or most of southern BC for that matter) is probably the most boring in Canada. The stupid mountains block all the storms before they get here. About the biggest event we've ever had was that massive record setting snow dump back in January. And by massive, I'm talking 50 cm, which by Great Lakes standards is a picnic.

[tsayta]

Ha! Except for the stupid mountains make a rainshadow effect and give us a fairly dry climate. Sure beats living through endless rain

[Woodenhead]

Yep! I much prefer the boring weather summers here! I do miss the snowstorms tho.