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The 2024 British Columbia floods were a series of floods, debris flows, and mudslides caused by an atmospheric river that struck Southwestern British Columbia from October 18 to October 20, 2024. Four people were killed during the event, two in the Lower Mainland and two on Vancouver Island .
At least two people have died and hundreds of thousands are without power as a second powerful bomb cyclone approaches the Pacific Northwest and Northern California, causing high winds, heavy rain ...
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[10] [11] The storm underwent bombogenesis, rapidly dropping its central pressure [12] to a record-tying level of 942 millibars (27.8 inHg). [10] This storm was the first of two storm systems to impact the U.S. West Coast during a 3 day period. The storm was associated with an atmospheric river that dropped large amounts of rain in Oregon and ...
The storm weakened as it traveled north into British Columbia, with peak gusts measured at 90 miles per hour (140 km/h). [19] Five people in British Columbia were killed in the storm, [20] and the area suffered $80 million in damages. [21] Stanley Park lost 3,000 trees. A Victoria resident described it as "Just general devastation everywhere ...
Several municipalities in Metro Vancouver were without power for three days; at the time it was the largest outage in BC Hydro's recorded history. [15] [16] 2015, December 21; 2016: March 9; 2016: Ides of October storm, Typhoon Songda transitioned into an extratropical storm as it crossed the North Pacific and approached the west coast of North ...
Lytton, British Columbia West Coast 2 Several Over 90% of Lytton destroyed [47] 2021 November 14 British Columbia Floods: Floods lower half of British Columbia: West Coast 4 at least 10 Provincial state of emergency declared 2022 January 13 2022 Ottawa Eastway tank explosion Fire Ottawa, Ontario: Eastern and Central Canada 6 2 Industrial explosion