People on Vancouver Island should brace for power outages and ferry cancellations as a powerful low-pressure system brings strong winds for extended periods and snow to some regions starting late Tuesday, according to weather experts.
“When we look at satellite imagery, by Wednesday morning, it’s going to be one of the deepest low-pressure systems in that part of the eastern Pacific on record,” said Tyler Hamilton, a meteorologist with The Weather Network .calls the incoming weather a “powerful bomb cyclone,” but “it won’t be one of the more devastating storms,” explains Hamilton.
“Bomb cyclone can seem dramatic and kind of some intimidating terminology, it can elicit apocalyptic images, but there’s just a lack of understanding with regards to that … it’s a specific atmospheric term, a meteorological term,” he said.59 hPa drop is nearly the maximum possible to squeeze out of the atmosphere southwest of Vancouver Island. Thankfully, it will stay about 500 kilometres offshore during peak intensity.
Ferry cancellations and power outages are “guaranteed,” said Hamilton, “because this low-pressure system is so big, it’s got a large pressure gradient with it.”
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