'Atmospheric River'
Foraging Course cancelled Sat Oct 16th We are gripped by an 'atmospheric river' according to a report on Friday's CBC news for BC. Perhaps shrouded might be more accurate. Not some euphemistic term to describe the collective mood in bad weather or a mystic meaning aligned with one's inner-self. They are a like ' rivers in the sky ' according to a CBC report, 'that transport large volumes of water vapour from the equator', before dumping it down on us. Canada gets several a year and the volume of rain can apparently, 'exceed the volume of water flowing into the ocean from the Amazon'. It feels like it. The rain started Friday morning and is due to continue until Sunday evening when 75mm to 150mm of rain is forecast to have fallen. We'd had 40mm by the end of Friday. Roads are awash and running with waves of surface water, the small stream that usually trickles across the front of our property alongside the road is a torrent....