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Over 100 mm of rain expected to fall on Coquitlam by Sunday

The heaviest rainfall is predicted on Friday and Saturday, when up to 80 millimetres of rain is expected in Coquitlam
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Over 100 millimetres of rain is expected to fall on the Tri-Cities between Wednesday and Sunday this week as a series of wet systems track in off the Pacific Ocean. 

The heaviest rainfall is predicted on Friday and Saturday, when up to 80 millimetres of rain is expected. 

The wet weather is forecast to be accompanied by winds gusting up to 60 kilometres an hour near the water Wednesday and into Thursday, according to Environment Canada.

The Weather Network predicts temperatures to hover between five and eight degrees Celsius in Coquitlam. 

Despite the relatively mild temperatures for this time of year, the 2020-2021 winter season is expected to be colder than usual, with long-term forecasts suggesting the south coast of B.C. is in for above-average levels of precipitation, including snow.

La Niña winter was predicted back in August, a pattern defined by "the appearance of cooler than normal waters in the eastern and central Pacific Ocean" according to the Government of Canada. 

“Sometimes called El Viejo, anti-El Niño, or simply ‘a cold event,’ it is the antithesis of El Niño,” reads an explainer under the government’s environment and natural resources portfolio.

Or as Environment Canada Meteorologist Armel Castellan pit it earlier this month, “…it's not to say that we're not going to have warmer weeks here and there of course but it's just the conceptual model with La Niña is that we'll see colder than normal overall, and particularly in the northern half of the province.” 

"But this also holds true for the South Coast as well."

— With files from Elana Shepert