Kailey is enjoying a rain-free walk after the first atmospheric
river passed through our area.

Quadra Island has received quite a bit of rain from the recent series
of atmospheric rivers, but nothing like the disastrous rainfalls in
the lower mainland and interior of British Columbia.

Here is an excerpt from a local news article:

"High up in the atmosphere, giant bands of moisture several hundred
kilometres long work like giant fire hoses in the sky.

They are the biggest rivers on Earth — but to the naked eye, these
so-called atmospheric rivers are completely invisible.

They pump 25 times the flow of the Mississippi River, or two times the
flow of the mighty Amazon, across the Pacific Ocean, from the tropics,
toward the West Coast of Canada and the United States.

This week, just a fraction of that water came crashing down over the mountains
and valleys of British Columbia, causing widespread flooding in communities
like Merritt and Princeton, and triggering several landslides."

Many of British Columbia's highways are closed or restricted, gas rationing
is in effect and farms in the lower mainland and interior have been
devastated. These are historic rainfalls that all the experts are
associating with climate change.

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