Considerable rainfall brings record high temperature in Nanaimo

NANAIMO — A series of strong Pacific storms have dumped hundreds of millimetres of rain across the region and brought a day of spring-like temperatures.

While the heaviest rainfall on Vancouver Island, according to Environment Canada, was reserved for Kennedy Lake (248 millimetres) and Port Alberni (123 millimetres), the Nanaimo and Oceanside area still saw its fair share as the storms began to move in on Monday, Nov. 9.

Since then, according to a number of civilian-run weather monitoring stations published to the CoCoRaHS Mapping System, between 64 and 72.4 millimetres fell in the Nanaimo area since Monday, with upwards of 110.5 millimetres being collected in parts of Oceanside.

With the rain came an unseasonably warm Remembrance Day Wednesday, with Nanaimo reaching 18.1 degrees, eclipsing a 1991 record by almost two full degrees (16.2)