Sun on the Sunshine Coast
Rain on Vancouver Island Sun May 8th Vancouver Area Rainfall Chatting to some local friends yesterday they said, 'of course you know the area around the Sunshine Coast has a lot of micro-climates, the further south/east, the wetter it gets'. Thinking about it and recalling how it could be raining in Marlborugh and sunny in Burbage I can understand how, with the prevalence of multiple mountain ranges here, this could be possible. The prevailing winds are generally easterly, unlike Wiltshire's windy westerly's. Similarly, the mountains behind us are often covered in cloud and rain, while the coast is bathed in sun. The high mountain range on Vancouver Island usually has a bank of cloud above it, as the easterly's blow in diagonally across the Strait of Georgia, the water that separates the Sunshine Coast from Van Island, cools the air which forms cloud, rain and snow on 'them there hills'. Interest piqued, what I found ...