Month: January 2011
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“Tule Fog” Capital of the World 🙂
Just heard something I’ve never heard before. The term “Tule Fog”. From what I can gather from this Accuweather report from California, Tule Fog (pronounced “Toolee” Fog) is the generic inversion layer type fog that we get here pretty much all winter. There is a beautiful Satellite image of the entirety of Central California covered…
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The Good News is:
It’s a lot foggier in “sunny” Parksville and Nanaimo right now with this weather pattern than it is in Port Alberni. Small consolations…. 😉 Not much change in the patter over the coming week…. Long Long forecast from Accuweather last week mentioned possibility of Storminess as the track starts pointing at us when we get…
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Careful driving today
There may be some snow on the roads today, especially places like Sutton Pass and the Hump as we have a weak system moving through that could give us some flurries. No large accumulations from what I can see and we should have a little rain tomorrow before it dries off on the weekend. The…
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Nothing big this week
Looks to be a pretty mild and calm set up for the next week or two. Temperatures should stay above freezing for the most part, there will be a few chances for brief flurries, but not much. When the wind blows, it will bring in very warm air in the 6-10C range. There isn’t very…
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A Warm week ahead
After this mornings snowfall ends (we have about 2cm here). It’s going to warm up much like it did on Wednesday and it’s going to stay warm as a more southwesterly flow takes hold and delivers plenty of rain from the sub-tropics. You’ll want to keep your drains clear in case we get any bursts…