Interesting thread and thanks for the graphs.
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Originally Posted by someone123
A lot of Canadians are confused about coastal BC weather and think that it is very wet year-round.
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And within the Metro Vancouver area itself large variations in precipitation/sunshine also exist. I've resided in the southern suburbs of Tsawwassen and White Rock for most of my life and Tsawwassen has always been described as having "twice the sunshine and half the rainfall of Vancouver".
While that statement may not be totally accurate, it also does ring true in terms of personally experiencing sunshine in Tsawwassen and rainfall in Vancouver on numerous occasions over the years, esp. during the wet winter months.
From one web source, unverified annual rainfall figures in Metro Vancouver are as follows:
North Vancouver/Coquitlam - 100 inches+
(adjacent to mountains)
Vancouver/Fraser Valley - 60 inches
Tsawwassen - 30 inches
And that's a considerable differential, if accurate.