Fall is in full swing; the trees are beautiful, leaves are falling, and the sun has been shining, but according to the forecast, the final week of October is expected to bring more classic Vancouver weather.
As we’ve seen in the past few years, October has been much milder and much less wet than we’re typically used to.
A few years ago, we even broke heat records in October in parts of B.C. While that hasn’t been the case this year, the region has been seeing a bit of a drought when it comes to precipitation.
The weather Gods have seemingly saved a lot of that precipitation for the final week of October, with the exception of Oct. 30 and Halloween, as we take a peek at Environment and Climate Change Canada’s seven-day weather forecast for Vancouver.
Along with the moisture, temperatures will be dropping a decent amount over the next week.
It’s not just a chance of showers either; this weekend, ECCC is calling for periods of rain, with the moisture forecast to hit on Saturday.
Periods of rain will continue into Sunday. On Monday, ECCC forecasts a chance of showers with cloudy periods overnight. The forecast calls for more gray skies on Tuesday, before another chance of showers overnight, and a chance of showers is also forecast all day for Wednesday and Thursday.
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Overnight temperatures are expected to drop as low as 5°C on Tuesday and Wednesday.
Unfortunately, we can’t yet see what ECCC’s forecast says about this upcoming Halloween, but if the Apple Weather app is any indication, it seems like there’s a good chance we’ll be in for a partly cloudy day with moderate temps.
Kelvin Wave is nigh
Something else that’ll be impacting B.C. anytime now is a Kelvin Wave, something we chatted with ECCC about last week.
A Kelvin Wave is a bulge in the water caused by a westerly wind burst, and it can heavily impact an El Niño by intensifying it. Kelvin Waves cannot be seen by the naked eye, but can be measured by satellites.
Last week, we were informed it would hit in a week or two, which could lead to higher sea levels and could potentially be problematic when combined with a high King Tide.
With more drought expected, we recently chatted with the B.C. Watershed Security Coalition about how the province could prepare for the “new normal.”
With files from Hanna Hett