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Heavy rainfall, winds soak sections of B.C.

WATCH: Monday’s atmospheric river along B.C.’s South Coast prompted Environment Canada to post notable rain totals. Here were the province’s wettest regions – Dec 5, 2023

It was a wet and windy start to the workweek in many parts of B.C. on Monday.

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In fact, it was so wet and windy that Environment Canada posted notable rain totals and windspeeds for 52 communities on Tuesday.

Below are the weather summaries from Monday, Dec. 4.

Rainfall

Vancouver Island

  • Kennedy Lake Highway Station: 132 millimetres
  • Pachena Point Lighthouse: 92 mm
  • Port Alberni Airport: 74 mm
  • Malahat Highway: 60 to 70 mm
  • Bowser: 66 mm
  • Cochrane Highway Station: 60 mm
  • Beaver Creek Forestry Station: 59 mm
  • Salt Spring Island: 59 mm
  • North Cowichan: 51 mm
  • Saturna Island: 45 mm

Lower Mainland

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  • Port Mellon: 102 mm
  • Mission: 97 mm
  • Porteau Cove Highway Station: 91 mm
  • Pitt Meadows Airport: 90 mm
  • Squamish Airport: 90 mm
  • Sea-to-Sky Highway: 54 to 83 mm
  • West Vancouver: 81 mm
  • Agassiz: 76 mm
  • Eagle Ridge Highway Station: 70 mm
  • Vancouver Harbour: 69 mm
  • Abbotsford area: 63 to 69 mm
  • Burns Bog: 64 mm
  • Point Atkinson Lighthouse: 60 mm
  • Cultus Lake: 57 mm
  • White Rock: 56 mm
  • Vancouver International Airport: 54 mm
  • Hope Airport: 52 mm
  • Pemberton Airport: 44 mm
  • Pam Rocks: 43 mm
  • Whistler Area: 41 mm

B.C. Interior

  • Hells Gate Highway Station: 74 mm
  • Coquihalla Summit: 72 mm
  • Nicolum Creek Highway Station: 52 mm
  • Lytton: 36 to 43 mm
  • Jackass Highway Station: 43 mm

Snowfall

  • Rogers Pass: 20 centimetres
  • Chappell Creek: 16 to 20 cm
  • Blue River: 15 to 18 cm

Wind

  • Sartine Island: 150 km/h
  • Solander Island: 137 km/h
  • Herbert Island: 121 km/h
  • Sandspit Airport: 115 km/h
  • Cumshewa Island: 112 km/h
  • Rose Spit: 109 km/h
  • Masset Airport: 98 km/h
  • Pine Island Lighthouse: 93 km/h
  • Grey Islet: 83 km/h
  • Scarlett Point Lighthouse 83 km/h
  • Holland Rock: 80 km/h
  • Pam Rocks: 80 km/h
  • Port Hardy Airport: 76 km/h
  • Egg Island Lighthouse: 74 km/h

Also on Monday, Sechelt equalled a daily high record, with the thermometer reaching 12.3 C, tying the mark set in 2007.

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