Year: 2012
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Official January Observations Are In
This just in, I’ve been handed the official record of weekday weather observations in January for Port Alberni. From left to right you have: Cloudy, partly cloudy, rain, snow, thunderstorm, wind, and finally sun. This is a weekly task in my daughters’ Grade 2 class at Alberni Elementary. 🙂 Definitely looks like the clouds had…
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Long Term Winter Forecast Bombs.
Well it’s hard to deny it anymore, and indeed, the weather forecasters are now starting to apologize… Why? Because this winter has really been nothing like what they (yours truly included) were predicting in those breathless forecasts back in October and November. Both Environment Canada and Accuweather.com were predicting a very cold winter for Western…
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Warm Weeks coming
Note: Over the next day or so you might see the website delayed in updates. It’s just some traffic on my home connection that will be over by the end of Monday or Tuesday night. The models are showing us getting out of our rather chilly, foggy existence and into something a little more pleasant.…
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Snow – then a slight warming?
Starting early Saturday morning there is a threat for snow in Port Alberni and the other usual places. Again like it has been all winter, how long it snows will depend on how long the cold sticks around in the Valley and the warm southerly winds stay away. This storm doesn’t strike me as a…
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More Slush/Snow on the way
Monty_67 called it last night. The temperature sunk like a rock and the heavy rain made it sink down to freezing and we ended up getting covered with a soggy blanket of snow. It has stopped snowing now but there is a chance we get a little more Friday night. In between then and now…