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Here is a clip from an email I just received from BChydro talking about the unprecedented storm damage seen during the windstorm. "On Saturday, August 29, the Lower Mainland and parts of Vancouver Island were hit with a significant windstorm. It was quick and intense, and surprised national weather agencies. 710,000 customers in the Lower Mainland and parts of Vancouver Island lost power at some point on the weekend due to this storm – this represents half of all BC Hydro customers in these regions. It was the largest outage in BC Hydro history. Drought-weakened trees fell across hundreds of our power lines, causing widespread outages. To give you a sense of the damage sustained in the storm over the course of three days, crews replaced approximately 200 power poles and 500 broken cross-arms on pole-tops, fixed 25 damaged transmission circuits and replaced 10,000 metres of wire and more than 1,200 pieces of electrical equipment. We dedicated the full resources of our company to this effort. This includes BC Hydro staff and contractors based in the Lower Mainland in the emergency centre and in the field. Additional crews were brought in to support restoration efforts from Prince George, Kamloops, Smithers, Terrace, Courtenay, Fort St. John, Nanaimo, Port Alberni, Victoria, Williams Lake, 100 Mile House, Campbell River, Duncan, Qualicum, Salmon Arm, West Kelowna and Vernon. Crews responded to 2,400 "trouble calls" or individual work orders (in a normal month there are 2,000 for the entire province). Over a span of 72 hours, power was restored to over 700,000 customers. Never before have we restored power to so many customers so quickly."

Lets save any good retrogression for when it could count.

Currently having a nice wrap around thunderstorm. Heavy rain, temp 56F.

The warm waters in the NE PAC were given this "nickname" by the media...

. .. On the 6th of Sept. main colder air looked at more broadly—across the board more hemispheric from East to West—should begin to move and spread daily, progressively more south, with continuing to do so through the Sept. 20th. This with where looking at colder air's more variable movement and pace more longitudinally east, with cold's beginning to step up its movement east by degrees daily on the 5th and continuing to do so through the 12th, its being caused to slow its pace and progress east from 13th forward also through to the 20th of Sept. or so. No "Numerical Wx-forecast Models" have been consulted where considering the generation of the broader outlook included above as part of this post.

Random winter weather post. I thought this was pretty funny, but the 'Godzilla el nino' will win as Cliff Mass pointed out.