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11-21-2021, 11:11 AM #51
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11-21-2021, 01:10 PM #52Registered User
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11-22-2021, 12:51 AM #53
I thought this article about the history of sumas lake, and the nooksack river turning West was interesting. You may have already seen it.
https://fvcurrent.com/article/sumas-...oding-history/
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11-22-2021, 02:46 AM #54powdork.com - new and improved, with 20% more dork.
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11-22-2021, 01:03 PM #55
coming weekend's long range forecast is looking dicey for lower mainland....here's hoping for lower freezing levels and stupid amounts of pow
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11-22-2021, 09:52 PM #56
another well written article from fvcurrent
https://fvcurrent.com/article/fraser...eptable-dikes/
funny/sad part is that it ends with the quote below while the forecast is looking particularly ugly for the next week with ARs and rising snow levels
It’s a question: does the next big one come next spring?” Litke told The Current. “It might not be for five or 10 or 20 years. In the Lower Mainland there have been a number of close calls and bullets that have been dodged. In this most-recent event, we did not dodge the bullet.powdork.com - new and improved, with 20% more dork.
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11-22-2021, 10:19 PM #57Registered User
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I actualy got a warning phone message on a landline about weather events last weekend, but not on the cell
if anybody else got them i don't know and who has a landline now days ?
and would anybody hearing a warning have paid attention ?Lee Lau - xxx-er is the laziest Asian canuck I know
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11-22-2021, 10:22 PM #58click here
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Yes, that's a great source Abe found!
Gas will be coming from as far away as California and being trucked into the province.10/01/2012 Site was upgraded to 300 baud.
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11-22-2021, 11:20 PM #59
What are they gonna do with gas anyway? Don't they use petrol up there?
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11-23-2021, 12:13 AM #60Registered User
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To be fair…
The storm that’s coming this week has a third of the rain forecasted, however it’s more widespread over the entire Fraser River catchment which could still cause issues… but we’re talking almost 9 inches of rain less….
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11-23-2021, 12:26 AM #61
I think the gallons to liters(litres?) machine converts gas into petrol. I have a hard time wrapping my head around the volume of water involved but I hope this doesn't cause more issues. Neufox's link to a chart with a log scale for ft^3/second made me realize how tricky it is to visualize these things.
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11-23-2021, 01:11 AM #62
because it's colder or because it's less precipitable moisture? The part that stands out to me is that each storm gets warmer so there will be at least some water stored in the mountains as recent snow coming down with the rains later in the week. Minor tweeks in the snow levels on each end of the storm could make a big impact
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11-23-2021, 08:51 AM #63
apparently CN rail will be back operational today or tonight...one week turnaround from major damage, gotta give them credit for how fast they can mobilize and repair serious damage.
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11-23-2021, 08:55 AM #64
yup, certainly less severe overall, just on top of a stressed and water logged system. Models are all still kinda all over the place too, Env Canada claiming above mountain top freezing levels, bit of others seems to be holding lower, guess we'll hope for the best and wait and see.
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11-23-2021, 11:26 AM #65Registered User
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It's interesting to listen to the CBC online news claiming of two "Atmospheric River" events coming with no context to the amount of rain. The big event being nearly 300mm and these ones in the 40-50mm range. It's not really the same.
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11-23-2021, 11:56 AM #66
They're like a child that learned a new word. Atmospheric rivers are a normal weather event that is almost never newsworthy.
If you have a problem & think that someone else is going to solve it for you then you have two problems.
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11-23-2021, 12:05 PM #67
well, I think they got accused of not warning people enough, which wasn't really the case imo....but now of course we'll swing the pendulum too far the other way
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11-23-2021, 06:26 PM #68
If you're interested in the highway repair progress the BC Ministry of Transportation has a flickr page they update daily.
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11-23-2021, 07:25 PM #69
I disagree (sort of). I think atmospheric rivers are or should be newsworthy. But about three years ago we went from one happening every maybe once a year to every storm being called one. A true atmospheric river like the one that hit pnw recently or the one that hit us in october has the potential to change the landscape.
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11-23-2021, 10:23 PM #70
Last week's AR was unusually focused and strong. From a CBC article:
The term atmospheric river was first coined in 1998 by Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers Yong Zhu and Richard Newell, but ARs had been observed before then. They usually begin life in the tropical ocean regions near the equator, and can bring large masses of warm air and water to areas like North America's west coast.
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According to a 2013 report co-produced by B.C.'s environment ministry, ARs typically form in eight oceanic regions around the world, some closer to continental coasts than others. One of those regions is just off North America's western coast and can produce between one to two dozen of them per year.If you have a problem & think that someone else is going to solve it for you then you have two problems.
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11-23-2021, 10:35 PM #71
Another on the way to OR this weekend.
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11-23-2021, 10:39 PM #72
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11-23-2021, 11:00 PM #73
fairly detailed report on upcoming storms and potential for flooding
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11-24-2021, 09:43 AM #74Registered User
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Is Atmospheric River just a new name for Pineapple Express or is AR something different?
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11-24-2021, 09:54 AM #75
Pineapple Express is an example of an atmospheric river
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