A historic storm created powerful winds on Vancouver Island and B.C.’s South Coast on Sunday and continued through Monday, leaving thousands without power and travellers scurrying to rebook ferries.
The rare “weather bomb” hundreds of kilometres off the B.C. coast was caused by a rapidly deepening low-pressure system.
“This is not a made-up term,” said CBC meteorologist Johanna Wagstaffe, referring to a process called bombogenesis, in which an area of low pressure intensifies rapidly.
Wagstaffe says the weather event is officially the storm with the lowest central pressure system ever recorded in the Pacific Northwest.
She says the previous record was set in
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