Friday, November 17, 2006

rain

"In British Columbia's case, there was an intense period of heavy rainfall — 10 to 15 millimetres per hour for 15 hours straight — that caused a runoff into the three watersheds that supply water for about two million people from the North Shore to Vancouver to Langley."

sorry, i'm finding this fascinating. cos we have a rainwater measure thingy in the dale and i'm used to bbb recording, y'know, 6ml here and there and getting very worried in summer. not 15ml an hour!

ps.
"Whistler-Blackcomb Mountain is opening a week earlier than scheduled after receiving 186 centimetres of snow so far."
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3 comments:

Anonymous said...

186cm of snow so far...........
Aaaaargh.. we didn't get that much for the whole of last season!

Will it still be therre in April?
BBB

1:53 am
Anonymous said...

15ml per hour
Amazing. that is so much rain (dude).
You are so right. We sweat over every millimetre here.

Total for October - lowest on record - 18 years - 8mls for the whole month. Not the whole hour, and teh next, and the next....

BBB

1:56 am
gumtreefid farmer said...

check

whistlerblackcomb

it has stats going back six years. the short answer is yes!

wow. 8ml for a month.

haha, my city is soggier and colder than yours! i mean. . . oh. . . *goes to find raincoat and gumboots*

6:47 pm

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