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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.
Areas of heavy snow were observed inland in British Columbia due to the atmospheric river. Environment Canada meteorologists issued the first snowfall warnings of the season along the British Columbia – Yukon border where 20 cm (7.9 in) of snow was forecast. [31]
The history of flooding in Canada includes floods caused by snowmelt runoff or freshet flooding, storm-rainfall and "flash flooding", ice jams during ice formation and spring break-up, natural dams, coastal flooding on ocean or lake coasts from storm surges, hurricanes and tsunamis.
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 ...
Storms over the northwest coast on December 20, 2018. Starting in the morning, severe winds hit Metro Vancouver gusting up to 112 kilometres per hour (70 mph) [8] affecting Delta and White Rock the worst. One person in Duncan on Vancouver Island was killed when struck by a falling tree. [1] A Surrey man was severely injured after a tree fell on ...
The climate of Vancouver Island is the mildest in Canada, with temperatures on the coast even in January being usually above 0 °C (32 °F). In summer, the warmest days usually have a maximum of 28–33 °C (82–91 °F). The southeastern part of the island notably has a warm summer (Csb) Mediterranean climate with numerous vineyards.
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, extreme Northern California, Vancouver Island, and southern British Columbia Part of the 2007–08 North American winter storms The Great Coastal Storm of 2007 was a series of three powerful Pacific storms that affected the U.S. states of Oregon and Washington and the Canadian province of British Columbia between December 1 ...