Showing posts with label dry October. Show all posts
Showing posts with label dry October. Show all posts
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Yup. I tasted it. Definitely water.[/caption]
Vancouver has had a record dry October. Just what kind of record has been the question through the month. Last night we had precipitation; not so much rain, as heavy mist. There's no official word yet, but I don't think we broke the all-time record.
The October record for consecutive days without measurable rain at the Vancouver Airport is 24 days, set back in 1986, according to meteorologist Mark Madryga, quoted in this Global BC item. In the October 24 item Madryga said Vancouver had gone 17 days without measurable precipitation. In which case, I think that we only managed 23 consecutive days without rain. If so, we mist it by that much! Click the image to enlarge it.
Yup. I tasted it. Definitely water.[/caption]Vancouver has had a record dry October. Just what kind of record has been the question through the month. Last night we had precipitation; not so much rain, as heavy mist. There's no official word yet, but I don't think we broke the all-time record.
The October record for consecutive days without measurable rain at the Vancouver Airport is 24 days, set back in 1986, according to meteorologist Mark Madryga, quoted in this Global BC item. In the October 24 item Madryga said Vancouver had gone 17 days without measurable precipitation. In which case, I think that we only managed 23 consecutive days without rain. If so, we mist it by that much! Click the image to enlarge it.
Night-after-night, this month, we've been treated to fog -- a little, or a lot. It's cool. Really, it is. Clammy, and cool, but it's not raining. We appear to be getting off on a technicality -- the fog, which is made of water, appears to be satisfying nature's requirement for October precipitation -- but it's still not rain! Hasn't rained for most of the month, which is very unusual. Average October rainfall is 113 millimetres. With only 25.4 millimetres of rain this month, Vancouver is on pace to have the driest October since 1991, according to this Province newspaper report.
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