March 2024 Forecasts and Discussions

[Rubus_Leucodermis]

soon?

Just had some here.

[VanCitySouth]

Just had some here.

Can confirm. Two flashes of lightning too. Seemed like cloud to cloud tho, thunder sounded distant even tho it only took 3-4 seconds.

[moonshadow0825]

Can confirm. Two flashes of lightning too. Seemed like cloud to cloud tho, thunder sounded distant even tho it only took 3-4 seconds.

Saw it as well, the first one was apparently over Ironwood in Richmond, super bright here

[NorthBurnabyWeather]

Radar loop, filesize is too big to attach it.
https://files.catbox.moe/r2lipv.mp4

167kA +CG in Ladner, 9:43pm
68kA +CG near 6 Road and Blundell, 9:48pm

Both were so bright I could see the flashes all the way from the SFU/Lougheed Mall area. Too far away to hear thunder, though.

Further south...

216kA -CG off Samuel Island 9:24pm
255kA -CG off Pender Island 9:20pm
182kA +CG near Astoria, OR 8:30pm
227kA +CG on the SW Oregon coast 8:26pm

Makes me think this is a squall line (not uncommon along on the WA coast or along the Salish Sea/Strait of Juan de Fuca), squall lines often trigger high-amp +CGs at the leading edge of the anvil base. Maybe the sunshine earlier this evening destabilized the atmosphere, and it wasn't picked up by models due to microclimate effects?

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[Rubus_Leucodermis]

Getting some small hail now.

[Typeing3]

00z GFS ensembles:

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00z ECMWF ensembles:

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00z GEM ensembles:

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[moonshadow0825]

Thank you for this, much more accurate than what I was looking at

167kA +CG in Ladner, 9:43pm
68kA +CG near 6 Road and Blundell, 9:48pm

Both were so bright I could see the flashes all the way from the SFU/Lougheed Mall area. Too far away to hear thunder, though.

I'm not surprised you could see it, blinding white out here.
My daughter works in Tsawwassen and said it shook their building and blew their vacuum out.

[Weather101]

Weather is going to turn beautiful just in time for the weekend

[stuffradio]

Weather is going to turn beautiful just in time for the weekend

This is perfect playoffs weather. We get a mixed bag of rain, warmth where you want to be outside instead of watching the game, and storms. It's been a while since we have had playoffs in Vancouver.

[NorthBurnabyWeather]

Thank you for this, much more accurate than what I was looking at



I'm not surprised you could see it, blinding white out here.
My daughter works in Tsawwassen and said it shook their building and blew their vacuum out.

You mean a household vacuum cleaner? Or a commercial HVAC system?

Seattle today hit a plane

It couldn't have been an A380 since Sea-Tac can't accomodate it. According to Chris Vagasky on Twitter it was a 787. Based on the given time of 4:45pm, this was ANA 117 to Tokyo Haneda, reg JA805A.

C-FITU was struck by lightning at YVR three weeks ago and that was also caught on video, by a student pilot. Flight AC860 to LHR. Made CBC News: https://youtu.be/yrJhSvVbqh0

You can tell by the single return stroke, smooth channel (lack of branching), and brightness that this was a +CG.

[VanCitySouth]

Radar loop, filesize is too big to attach it.
https://files.catbox.moe/r2lipv.mp4

167kA +CG in Ladner, 9:43pm
68kA +CG near 6 Road and Blundell, 9:48pm

Both were so bright I could see the flashes all the way from the SFU/Lougheed Mall area. Too far away to hear thunder, though.

That's super useful. I guess I was wrong about it not striking ground. I saw both flashes, super bright, and the thunder came relatively quickly, but not very loud, which was weird to me.

[Rubus_Leucodermis]

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https://twitter.com/YVR__Weather/status ... 5300704450

[AbbyJr]

Jr. Man, you have incompleted homework to do your monthly summary for February and then March please complete your homework and then you can take time off from school.

Homework complete with the exception of March. Those stats will come out in April as March is still not over yet.

https://forums.bcstorms.ca/viewtopic.ph ... 1#p1331541

[AbbyJr]

Yeah, I keep losing power. My UPS battery needs replacing as well.

Power is currently out again, so no station for a while.

It's been pouring rain most of the day today and quite cool for the end of March.

I had some extremely heavy rain showers yesterday too. 30.4mm for the day. Thankfully there were no power issues here.

[Bonovox]

Only 84 days until days start getting shorter again.

Only 178 days left until fall.