Numerous rainfall records fell over the weekend as an atmospheric river led to flooding around the North Shore.
According to Environment and Climate Change Canada, the Point Atkinson weather station in West Vancouver recorded a whopping 292 millimetres of precipitation over the course of the weekend.
“That’s a lot, definitely. For a three-day event, really anywhere, that's a lot of precipitation,” said Ken Dosanjh, meteorologist.
A separate station near Cypress Bowl Road recorded 203 mm in that time span, while stations at Horseshoe Bay and Eagle Ridge came in at 171 mm and 153 mm, respectively.
At times, the rain was coming down on the North Shore at a rate of 10 to 12 mm per hour, Dosanjh said.
On Saturday alone, 134.6 mm fell in West Vancouver.
“That puts this day as the third wettest day we have on record for that area,” Dosanjh said.
The only two days with higher rainfall totals were Jan. 18, 1961, with 138.2 mm, and Oct. 16, 1975. with 141.4 mm.
The previous high for precipitation on an Oct. 19 on the North Shore was 34.8 mm.
“The daily precipitation total was broken by quite a lot,” Dosanjh said. “Almost 100 mm difference, based off the previous record.”
