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Wind warning for B.C.'s south coast with gusts up to 90 km/h expected overnight

Darpan News Desk The Canadian Press, 25 Oct, 2024 11:54 AM
  • Wind warning for B.C.'s south coast with gusts up to 90 km/h expected overnight

Coastal British Columbia will see strong winds overnight with gusts that could reach speeds of between 90 and 110 kilometres per hour. 

Warnings from Environment Canada span the Greater Victoria area, the southern Gulf Islands, eastern Vancouver Island, southern parts of Metro Vancouver and Haida Gwaii.

The weather office says most areas will see winds gusting up to 90 kilometres per hour before conditions are expected to ease Saturday morning, while winds over Haida Gwaii could peak at 110 kilometres per hour.

The warnings come a week after an atmospheric river weather system drenched B.C.'s coast, triggering a mudslide and local flooding that killed at least three people.

Ian MacDonald, with Coquitlam Search and Rescue, says the team is stepping up its search to find 59-year-old Robert Belding after a witness reported seeing him fall into the swollen Coquitlam River on Sunday while he tried to rescue a dog. 

The District of North Vancouver is still mopping up after receiving 350 millimetres of rain last weekend, but it has lifted an evacuation order for six properties in the Deep Cove neighbourhood, issuing a statement saying crews completed work to remediate hazards created by the "extreme rainfall."

A statement from the district says hazards may still be present at the properties, and homeowners are encouraged to "undertake their own due diligence."

The district had issued the order last Sunday after assessments found that potential failure of private infrastructure could pose a risk to public safety.

More rain is expected across the region this weekend, but Ken Dosanjh, a meteorologist with Environment Canada, says it will be "nothing" compared with the last storm, and it will come in a series of "pulses" rather than an atmospheric river.

The rain last weekend prompted a mudslide in Coquitlam that swept away a home, killing the woman inside, and two others died on the west coast of Vancouver Island when a road washed out and swept their vehicles into an overflowing river. 

 

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