Weather Notification for North and Central Coast
To North and Central Coast Communities:
Environment Canada puts forward the below weather notification for your information.
Apologies if you don’t fall into this area, I tried to edit a few distribution lists so may not have been completely accurate but wanted to include more than less communities.
Have a safe holiday season.
Issued: December 27, 2019 at 13:00 PST
Weather Event Impacts:
- Possible flooding of some small streams in coastal areas
- Increased risk of landslides and debris flows in prone areas
Timing:
- Monday to Tuesday
Key Points:
A Pacific frontal system will bring heavy rain and rising freezing levels to the North and Central Coasts on Monday and Tuesday.
- The heaviest rainfall is expected to occur along the coast between Prince Rupert and Bella Bella. 70 to 90+ mm of rainfall over a 24 hour period is possible.
- Much less rain forecast inland.
- This system will bring warm air with freezing levels perhaps rising to 2000 metres on Monday night.
- Heavy wet snow may collect over higher terrain for part of the storm.
- The River Forecast Centre will monitor streamflows and high streamflow advisories or flood watches may be issued this weekend.
In the longer term, freezing levels will fall on Wednesday and a less intense but active pattern continues for the rest of the week.
Forecast confidence:
Moderate- precipitation amounts. There is a wide range of possibilities for rainfall amounts, monitor forecasts closer to the event.
High – regarding the wet pattern.
For updates, please monitor upcoming weather forecast and possible warnings:
Weather Alerts: www.weather.gc.ca/warnings/index_e.html?prov=bc
BC River Forecast Centre Flood Warnings & Advisories: http://bcrfc.env.gov.bc.ca/warnings/index.htm
ECCC Daily Weather Blog: www.avalanche.ca/weather