It’s not the type of tweet you want to read just before bedtime.
“Several hundred tiny tremors (not felt) between Victoria and Seattle in the past 24 hours,” Earthquake guy posted Tuesday night. “Possibly the start of an early ETS? Stay tuned.”
Earthquake guy, better known as Natural Resources Canada seismologist John Cassidy, said it will take a few days to see if the cluster of 200 to 300 tiny tremors is an ETS, a process known as episodic tremor and slip, or a little burst of tremors that will last for a few days and disappear.
An ETS would mean B.C. is heading into a riskier seismic season, Cassidy said Wednesday.
“ETS are not felt. They are not even earthquakes,” he explained. “They are shaking events that we can record and locate. Typically, we get ETS events in this area every 14 or 15 months and they last for several weeks.”
During that time, the Cascadian subduction zone, which runs from Vancouver Island to northern California, experiences a slow slip...
I went out for some dinner in shorts and a t-shirt at around 7:30pm. The streets were dry, skies a bit cloudy, but still decently warm. I got about two minutes away from home when it suddenly started pouring.
I think even this year alone there have been a few cloudburst situations.
Yesterday there was a cell above the Oak Street Bridge around 3:30pm, which was very interesting to drive through. Dry, dry, dry, then all of a sudden car wash.
Get your skis and board out! Local mountains have been hammered by 50cm of fresh snow in the 48 hours and it doesn't look like it's going to stop before tomorrow! I hope the season is off to a good start after this dump.
Too bad I won't be able to hit the slopes before new year, flying back home for Christmas tomorrow. Enjoy those powdery runs!
Super pictures, sir, as always!! I love the one of the palm trees in the wind. Sort of a "Gulf Coast Storm" vibe in that one. You can feel the winter wind in these pictures.
Well, before the Sunday evening snowstorm the day was half decent with some blue skies and no precipitation through the afternoon. Certainly chilly, though.
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