‘Atmospheric River’ to Dump Rain Onto a Flooded Western Canada
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British Columbia, home to Canada’s biggest port, is bracing for its most intense deluge after a series of damaging rain storms and historic flooding.
A so-called atmospheric river is threatening to dump more water on parts of the far west province that are already saturated, Armel Castellan, a meteorologist for Environment and Climate Change Canada told reporters Tuesday. Such ‘rivers’ are long, narrow regions in the sky that carry volumes of water from the tropics and release downpours when they make landfall.