Election day drenching expected with rainfall warning issued for South Coast

Election time is shaping up to beryllium a bedewed 1 for voters connected British Columbia’s South Coast.

Environment Canada has issued a rainfall warning for Metro Vancouver, Howe Sound, sections of the Sea-to-Sky road southbound of Whistler and the westbound seashore of Vancouver Island.

Special weather statements are besides successful spot for the Fraser Valley and parts of confederate Vancouver Island arsenic the season’s archetypal atmospheric river bears down.

“A beardown autumn tempest strategy volition nonstop an atmospheric stream towards the South Coast, bringing dense rainfall to the region. Rain volition statesman Friday greeting and intensify done the day and evening, with the heaviest rainfall expected Saturday greeting and aboriginal afternoon,” Environment Canada said.

“Rain should easiness connected Saturday evening, though a 2nd pulse of rainfall is expected Sunday.”

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Environment Canada said rainfall totals for Metro Vancouver could scope from 40 to 70 mm, with 70 to 100 mm imaginable successful the Sea-to-Sky corridor and topping 100 mm connected the North Shore.

The concern connected occidental Vancouver Island volition beryllium adjacent wetter, with totals approaching 100 mm of rainfall adjacent the seashore and perchance topping 200 mm implicit mountainous terrain.

Wind warnings are besides successful spot for the bluish parts of the Georgia Strait and the Central and North Coast.

Environment Canada is urging radical to wide tempest drains of leaves and debris up of the upwind system.

Drivers are besides being warned to ticker for flash floods and h2o pooling connected roads, to usage their headlights and to thrust with caution.