Pat Wong

Retired from career at ECCC ( regional monitoring manager & meteorologist) Still a weather geek & armchair meteorologist who loves a good storm & beaches.

[Pat Wong @PatWong3]

@ensembleator Brrr. Flying home from SE asia Tuesday morning 🥶☃️

[Pat Wong @PatWong3]

@ensembleator Yowza. Quite the deluge! The port Mellon storm total to 8 am is 123 mm !

[Pat Wong @PatWong3]

@susanw71 @ensembleator The official station at Burns Bog is the closest to you. It’s storm total to 8 am is 90 mm ( so far)

[Jake Broe @RealJakeBroe]

This is possibly the funniest SNL skit ever made, lol

[Pat Wong @PatWong3]

Woke up to pounding rain on the roof. Definitely not 0% pop right now for the 50k people in South Delta. #bcstorm

[Pat Wong @PatWong3]

@ensembleator Came true. Boomers here in t town.

[Pat Wong @PatWong3]

Rockin and rollin with thunder 0350Z in Tsawwassen #bcstorm

[Pat Wong @PatWong3]

@holysmokes99 @wpt_global @WPT So fun! I think you should win!!!

[Pat Wong @PatWong3]

@jattridge It’s definitely not “sunny Tsawwassen “ here today!!

[Pat Wong @PatWong3]

@ensembleator That was a noisy night!!

[Pat Wong @PatWong3]

@ensembleator Super duper cool to see the precip on the new CASHP radar right up to the north end of the island!!

[Pat Wong @PatWong3]

@Squamishweather Example: https://t.co/rE0hS17gT9

[Pat Wong @PatWong3]

@Squamishweather Yes. Eccc has been working with industry Canada on a solution and with a bunch of testing have identified specialized filters that seem to do the trick. They have to be specifically engineered for each radar so it will take some time to get them all done.

[Pat Wong @PatWong3]

@RyanVoutilainen If you use the DPQPE products you won’t see the star wars effect - the dual pol filters it out. ( the ECCC displays ( web and app) use the DPQPE.

[Pat Wong @PatWong3]

@MorganLaidler @Squamishweather @RyanVoutilainen Not sure what ECCCs plans are going forwards. This project was funded to replace the old radars circa 2000 with new ones. The new radars have better range so more areas have coverage now. (330 km new radars vs 240 km old for conventional radar /240 km new vs 113 km for Doppler)

[Pat Wong @PatWong3]

@proflex4ever @Squamishweather The display Jason showed was from RadarScope ( a good app for weather radar data) however you can see the data from this latest (and all radars) from the radar tab on ECCC’s free app called WeatherCAN. The radar data on WeatherCAN is zoomable right down to neighbourhood level.

[Pat Wong @PatWong3]

@greyhame23 @ensembleator The elevation Of the radar’s feedhorn is 612 metres. The lowest scan angle is 0 degrees so it’s scanning the sky above your location.

[Pat Wong @PatWong3]

@ensembleator @proflex4ever @greyhame23 Was integrated into the national zoo able display within 10 minutes of being switched to operational in Monday morning.
I usually use RadarScope on my iPhone. A small one time fee, but well worth it I think. You can see some showers up in that direction this morning

[Environment Canada @environmentca]

The new Halfmoon Peak, BC radar is available! It replaces the old Mount Sicker station and is located at a new site to offer improved #weather detection.

Check out its data here: https://t.co/O3cT5xQyFR

[Pat Wong @PatWong3]

@greyhame23 @ensembleator It is a large cell phone tower nearby. Hopefully a specialized filter will clean that up in the coming months. The DPQPE data cleans it up nicely so you won’t see the radials on the environment Canada displays/app.