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[LJ]

Talked to my friend in Sarasota today, his condo came through unscathed.

[max.bravo]

A friend in Tampa is without water and power. But the house is in tact. He stayed in place against advice to evacuate. Could've been nasty, but he says he's fine.

[Victoria Watcher]

https://poweroutage....a/state/florida

 

[Victoria Watcher]

[Victoria Watcher]

^ Pretty good day today.

[Victoria Watcher]

https://poweroutage....a/state/florida

 

[Victoria Watcher]

[Victoria Watcher]

https://poweroutage....a/state/florida

 

[Victoria Watcher]

[Victoria Watcher]

Down to 163,000 now.

[Victoria Watcher]

98,000.

[dasmo]

Those linemen are earning their money.

[Victoria Watcher]

67,000.

[Victoria Watcher]

Island's first atmospheric river of season expected to land Friday morning

 

 

Heavy rains expected for Vancouver Island throughout the weekend

 

 

 

https://www.vicnews....morning-7591005

 

 

“We typically get 30 to 40 atmospheric rivers in a season, they are common,” Dosanjh emphasized. What’s important to note is the strength, duration and how they flow together to impact residents.

 

 

 

 

 

^ That returns me 2 pages of results (although only 5 articles are about weather)

 

 

 

 

 

^ and that returns me 11 pages.

Edited by Victoria Watcher, 17 October 2024 - 08:33 AM.

[Victoria Watcher]

The humanity!

[Ismo07]

The humanity!

 

To be fair, people did perish due to slides caused by the amount of water...

[Mike K.]

Storm Ashley was blowing across Edinburgh while I was there, on Sunday.

The winds were nuts, luckily the rain was kept at bay until late into the night. But the streets remained full of people, bars and restaurants full. Not even a storm can dampen the spirit of a city like that. By Sunday night things quieted down some, and we storm watched from our hotel.

Curiously, street sweepers worked overnight during the storm to ensure the streets were clean for Monday AM, start of the business week.

[lanforod]

We had a million people vote in the mess of the Saturday rain, so pretty arguable that the rain didn't dampen that spirit much either.

[Victoria Watcher]

Atmospheric rivers could raise sea levels along the west coast of North America by as much as 200 per cent compared to the past, a new study has found. 

 

The research, published in the journal Communications Earth & Environment, focused on the coastal areas of California, Oregon and Washington.

 

But lead researcher Christina Shields says the findings could also have significant implications for British Columbia. 

 

“The major impact for coastal British Columbia, would be that [atmospheric rivers] in the future, which will be wetter and carry more precipitation, will also have to contend with a temporary increase in ocean height, similar to a storm surge,” said Shields. 

 

This month, B.C. was hit with an atmospheric river that led to the deaths of four people — including two drivers on Vancouver Island, one teacher in a Coquitlam mudslide, and a man walking near a swollen river. 

 

To carry out their study, Shields and her team at the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colo., used high fidelity simulations that more accurately represent processes in the ocean. 

 

 

https://www.timescol...ientist-9733554

Edited by Victoria Watcher, 31 October 2024 - 02:04 AM.

[Mike K.]

We were just running headlines on drought, and how drought will change BC’s coast. Now we’re running headlines on rising sea levels from rain.