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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.
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] Highway 1 was closed over Rogers Pass east of Revelstoke because of a vehicle crash in the wintry conditions.
A theoretical one-standard deviation shift in mean extreme rainfall intensity has been misreported as Environment Canada data, suggesting that storms occurring every 40 years are occurring every 6 years", [8] based on a standard, normal probability density function (see presentation 13:10). It has also been reported that 20 times more storms ...
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.
The city of Penticton and the small towns Oliver, and Osoyoos have some of the warmest summer climates in Canada, although the hottest spots are the towns of Lillooet and Lytton in the Fraser Canyon. Nearly all of the Coast including much of Vancouver Island is covered by a temperate rain forest.