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On December 13 a strong frontal system impacted the western coast, dropping 77.5 millimetres (3.05 in) of rain on downtown Vancouver, [5] and 67.0 millimetres (2.64 in) at the Vancouver International Airport. [6] Snowfall warnings were also put in place for the Coquihalla, and other high elevation places. [7]
Damage was primarily limited to trees and power lines; structural damage was minimal. This storm, along with Hurricane Hazel in 1954, was one of the few hurricanes to cause hurricane-force winds in Canada's interior. October 18, 1939: A Category 2 hurricane became extratropical before striking the island as a Category 1 hurricane.
On western Vancouver Island, reports ranged from 6 to around 15 inches in the same time period. Seattle, Washington sits in the shadow of the Olympic Mountain Range and only picked up 0.23 inches ...
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 ...
At the peak of the storm, as many as 600,000 customers were in the dark in Washington, while 300,000 B.C. Hydro customers were without power, around half of those on Vancouver Island.
On October 13, the cyclone made landfall on Washington and Vancouver Island, and then curved northwestward. Afterward, the system moved into Canada and weakened, before being absorbed by another developing storm to the south on October 17. The Columbus Day storm of 1962 is considered to be the benchmark of extratropical wind storms.
Washington, Oregon, Idaho, [1] Vancouver Island, and Southern British Columbia The Hanukkah Eve windstorm of 2006 was a powerful Pacific Northwest windstorm in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States and southern British Columbia , Canada between December 14, 2006 and December 15, 2006.
The climatology of Vancouver applies to the entire Greater Vancouver region and not just to the City of Vancouver itself. While Vancouver's coastal location serves to moderate its temperatures, sea breezes and mountainous terrain make Greater Vancouver a region of microclimates, with local variations in weather sometimes being more exaggerated than those experienced in other coastal areas.