Showing posts with label heavy rainfall. Show all posts
Showing posts with label heavy rainfall. Show all posts
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One of the great photo of the rain in downtown Vancouver by the CBC! My photos sucked. Click the image to go to the CBC item.[/caption]
Last night's heavy, heavy rain, and thunderstorm was a short, sharp, shock, which overwhelmed the city's drainage capacity, and largely caught everyone by surprise -- it's at least a month early for this sort of rain. According to this CBC item, Vancouver only received between 12 and 18 mm of precipitation. That's 0.7 inches, so no records were in danger. But it was overwhelmingly fast. The storm came, and went inside of an hour, with the heaviest rainfall occurring in a span of minutes. The accompanying thunderstorm was a rarity, speaking as a 30-year resident of Vancouver. According to the CBC item, nearly 1,000 lightning strikes were recorded during the hour-long storm which dumped 17 mm of rain on the downtown area of Vancouver.
One of the great photo of the rain in downtown Vancouver by the CBC! My photos sucked. Click the image to go to the CBC item.[/caption]Last night's heavy, heavy rain, and thunderstorm was a short, sharp, shock, which overwhelmed the city's drainage capacity, and largely caught everyone by surprise -- it's at least a month early for this sort of rain. According to this CBC item, Vancouver only received between 12 and 18 mm of precipitation. That's 0.7 inches, so no records were in danger. But it was overwhelmingly fast. The storm came, and went inside of an hour, with the heaviest rainfall occurring in a span of minutes. The accompanying thunderstorm was a rarity, speaking as a 30-year resident of Vancouver. According to the CBC item, nearly 1,000 lightning strikes were recorded during the hour-long storm which dumped 17 mm of rain on the downtown area of Vancouver.
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North-East corner of Broadway and Spruce, just after 11 p.m. The South side corners were ankle deep in running water.[/caption]
Wowzers! One of the many details the Book of Genesis omits to mention is whether the rain was warm or cold. Last night our deluge was warm. You could have taken all your clothes off and happily run around in it -- for all the good rain gear did. In the winter we call this a "Pineapple Express;" a gift of warm wetness all the way from the tropics. Environment Canada called it a "moist front" in their heavy rainfall warning. And, as predicted, the gift came wrapped, special, in thunder and lightning -- a rare treat in Vancouver. Click the images below to enlarge them.
North-East corner of Broadway and Spruce, just after 11 p.m. The South side corners were ankle deep in running water.[/caption]Wowzers! One of the many details the Book of Genesis omits to mention is whether the rain was warm or cold. Last night our deluge was warm. You could have taken all your clothes off and happily run around in it -- for all the good rain gear did. In the winter we call this a "Pineapple Express;" a gift of warm wetness all the way from the tropics. Environment Canada called it a "moist front" in their heavy rainfall warning. And, as predicted, the gift came wrapped, special, in thunder and lightning -- a rare treat in Vancouver. Click the images below to enlarge them.
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