Showing posts with label ligjht flooding. Show all posts
Showing posts with label ligjht flooding. 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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