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Ryan Voutilainen

@yvrwxwatcher.bsky.social

Vancouver based Weather/Storm Chaser & freelancer documenting notable weather & other events with a focus on BC & PNW weather. On the unceded traditional territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm/Musqueam, Sḵwx̱wú7mesh/Squamish, & səlilwətaɬ/Tsleil-Waututh Nations.

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In the Tri-Cities?
Come Cram the Cruiser for SHARE Food Bank at:
Safeway Shaughnessy (Port Coquitlam)
Save-On-Foods Sunwood (Coquitlam)!

We’re on site until 16h/4pm

#Share #FoodBank #Donate #PortCoquitlam #Coquitlam

22.11.2025 21:27 — 👍 11    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Check out the shadow Tahoma (Mt Rainier) cast under the clouds above as the sun was rising over the Tacoma WA this morning! 🤩

21.11.2025 16:02 — 👍 18    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0
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Growing up in Vancouver I always watched both Phil Reimer on #CBC British Columbia & Norm Grohmann on #BCTV

Fun to have found this treasure when cleaning out the storage locker. Time to read it again.

Who was your fave TV met or wx presenter as a kid?

#BCwx #BCStorm #BCStormWatch

17.11.2025 04:18 — 👍 10    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0
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Aurora borealis must be over… Because it’s clearing in Vancouver! 🤦🏼‍♂️

#AuroraWatch #NorthernLights #BCStorm #BCStormWatch #BCWX

13.11.2025 22:58 — 👍 22    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0

Whereabouts in Washington Emma?

12.11.2025 06:59 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Correct!

12.11.2025 04:05 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Looks like a hint of green in there.

12.11.2025 04:00 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Kinda sorta can see them in South Surrey

12.11.2025 02:03 — 👍 7    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

Nice. Thank you!

12.11.2025 02:14 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Whereabouts Terry?

12.11.2025 02:00 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Glad you got to see them!

12.11.2025 01:53 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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#AuroraBorealis is out Vancouver!

It’s even visible through a thin veil of high cloud and over the bright city lights!

5:25pm PT — 11 Nov 2025

#AuroraWatch #NorthernLights #BCStorm #BCStormWatch #BCwx @petervogel.bsky.social @tamithaskov.bsky.social

12.11.2025 01:34 — 👍 64    🔁 8    💬 2    📌 2

CME is here!! …. Can we keep some breaks of clear sky for a little longer please so Vancouver gets to see some?!

#AuroraWatch #AuroraBorealis #NorthernLights #BCwx #BCstorm #BCStormWatch

12.11.2025 00:08 — 👍 8    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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11/11 11:11 🫡

#RemembranceDay #LestWeForget #NeverForget #WeRemember

11.11.2025 19:11 — 👍 15    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Best chance at #AuroraBorealis in several months… You know the forecast for Vancouver: RAIN! 😭😭😭😭

#AuroraWatch #GeomagneticStorm #BCwx #BCstormwatch #BCstorm

11.11.2025 15:02 — 👍 14    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I’ll bring you some next time I am down!

09.11.2025 19:56 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Ski & Snowboard Season is almost here at Whistler-Blackcomb!

#BCwx #BCstorm #BCstormwatch #SkiSeason #WinterIsComing

09.11.2025 19:55 — 👍 13    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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The joys of living on the BC Coast. I love microclimates too!
What it looks like from the Glacier Express webcam:

09.11.2025 17:10 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Room with a view - until the fog rolled in!

Good morning from the Resort Municipality of Whistler, British Columbia. Fog should dissipate in the next few hours for a beautiful November day in SW BC before the next system approaches.

#BCwx #BCstorm #BCstormwatch

09.11.2025 17:00 — 👍 16    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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This is gotta one funniest things I’ve ever seen… @stephruhle.bsky.social’s mobile phone going off on live television and it’s her son so she answers it!! 🤣

A true mom right there!

#MSNBC

08.11.2025 04:19 — 👍 14    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0
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Partial Clearing w/ Chc of Aurora!
It’s been awhile but clouds are scattering out over the Lwr Mainland as a high builds.
If you take out your camera w/ long exposure, you might just see Aurora Borealis as parameters aren’t bad. Just wish Bz was lower.

#BCwx #BCstorm #BCstormwatch #AuroraWatch

08.11.2025 03:42 — 👍 11    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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Cold front has made its way thru Metro Vancouver and now pushing thru the Fraser Valley in BC and Whatcom/Skagit Counties in WA. Heavy rains & gusty winds associated but no lightning along here so far.

CASAG - Super-Res Reflectivity 1 16:53 Super-Res Velocity 1 #BCStorm #wawx

07.11.2025 01:04 — 👍 11    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0
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Spot the cold front!
That’s about as defined as they get on radar in these parts. Heavy rain associated and even thunderstorms over E Van Isle and the Sunshine Coast.

CASAG - Super-Res Reflectivity 1 16:35 Super-Res Velocity 1 16:35 #BCStorm #wawx #BCwx #BCstormwatch

07.11.2025 00:42 — 👍 11    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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Good! Here’s those lightning strikes you heard showing up in the next radar scan!
CASHP - Super-Res Reflectivity 1 16:22 Super-Res Velocity 1 16:22 #BCStorm #BCwx #YQQwx #BCstormwatch

07.11.2025 00:29 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Awesome. Thanks for the “ground truth!”

07.11.2025 00:26 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Cold front now pushing through the BC Inner South Coast w/ several lightning strikes detected N of Campbell River as it pushes into the Coast Mountains and gets that added lift.

CASHP - Super-Res Reflectivity 1 16:16 Super-Res Velocity 1 16:16 #BCStorm #BCwx #BCstormwatch #WAwx

07.11.2025 00:24 — 👍 13    🔁 3    💬 1    📌 0

Short trip. Enjoy tho!

05.11.2025 15:02 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Image of a lunar halo (a ring around the moon) above evergreen trees at night

Image of a lunar halo (a ring around the moon) above evergreen trees at night

Image of a lunar halo (a ring around the moon) above evergreen trees at night

Image of a lunar halo (a ring around the moon) above evergreen trees at night

Stunning lunar halo tonight in the Cascade foothills #wawx

03.11.2025 04:46 — 👍 79    🔁 11    💬 0    📌 2
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I just looked outside and had to look at the clock… yup, standard time is back!

#TimeChange #DaylightSavingTime #DST #StandardTime #FallBack

03.11.2025 02:27 — 👍 29    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 1
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November is here, but the autumn colours still be poppin’ in Vancouver BC’s city centre even with the grey skies and an early sunset looming! Fall 🍂🍁

#ShareYourWeather #BCStorm #BCStormwatch #FallColours #Autumn #AutumnColours #FallColors #AutumnColors #November

02.11.2025 23:24 — 👍 29    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

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