Thursday Fire Weather Forecast
Friday, July 10, 2020 at 9:41AM SYNOPSIS: (Today-tomorrow) In the next 24 hours a low will cross the north Island and the mainland inlets and open into a broad unstable trough over the Chilcotin. Most of the associated rainfall will fall over those areas and could be heavy at times with only a few scattered showers over south and east Vancouver Island and virtually nothing over the mainland areas south of Desolation Sound. Weak ridging tomorrow afternoon brings partial clearing and a smattering of sunny breaks.
OUTLOOK: (Friday-Sunday) The wet progressive pattern continues into the weekend with the next system reaching the coast Friday afternoon. As with today’s complex system the bias will be for most of the rainfall to stay up over northern Vancouver Island and the coastal inlets north of Powell River. The current forecast model shows heavy rainfalls for the outer coasts Saturday afternoon with some areas seeing over 40 mm! But a few bands of clouds will cross the southern and eastern sections on Saturday bringing a chance of showers. All areas remain cloudy and wet through Sunday.
TIVFD/Coastal Fire
