Year: 2012

  • Christmas Break

    I’m going to take a break for a few days. Hope all of you have had a wonderful Christmas and are enjoying the Holidays. The snowfall warning was a bust for us in Port Alberni but it bit hard elsewhere on the Island. That’s what we get for being on the Ocean I guess… just…

  • Christmas Snowfall Warning

    A very Merry Christmas to everyone. I hope all of you can bed down tonight in Port Alberni and wait for something that just does not happen very often. Here are the words from Environment Canada we’ve all be waiting for. 10 to 15 cm of snow expected on Christmas day. Please be careful. Please…

  • Updated! Merry Christmas Forecast?

    Update 11:30AM Dec 23 It is still a great forecast for Christmas as long as you are not travelling! I will try to update it again Christmas Eve. Oh and check out the webcams page. I’ve added a couple new ones. And Congratulations to Lynn who picked her daughter’s birthday for the Snow Contest and…

  • Christmas Weather in pictures

    This will be a pictorial post focusing on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day! Before then, expect alternating rain and snow showers today, tomorrow and Sunday. We will remain around the freezing mark so the best is to expect wet snow at any moment if you are driving or outside and be prepared. I will update…

  • Still chance for snow… But what about Christmas?

    As I stepped out the door this morning it was snowing heavily again. We got another 3cm or so in town. The drive up the West side of the hump was pretty treacherous, far worse than yesterday morning ironically but this time as soon as I came down the East side all the snow disappeared…