• Good News! Best chance of snow is around Christmas! Bad News: It’s not a very large chance 🙂

    We’re a week away from Christmas Eve Day!  That means I’ve been getting some questions about whether we have a shot at seeing any significant white stuff at all between now and the day Santa comes.  I’ll use this post to take a peak. So here’s the good news.  We could get snow between now…

  • Friday Storm – Initial Post – Updates on #alberniwxstorm

    You’ll see further updates through the Twitter thread and #AlberniWxStorm hashtag below! If you have any weather reports tonight or tomorrow, tweet them with that hashtag and they will appear here! Live Updating Twitter Thread We have a storm coming! Here’s the initial look and then you can follow the ongoing thread here or on…

  • Very local Rain Warning for Qualicum Beach – Possible Wind Storm Friday

    We got a nice break from the rain overnight. The break is going to end by about 10AM this morning particularly if you are on the East side of the Island from Qualicum up to Courtenay. Environment Canada has issued a very specific rain warning for the area between Qualicum Beach and Fanny Bay and…

  • Rainy stormy day and week ahead

    It’s December and we’re getting some pretty typical December weather.  Plenty of rain is in the forecast along with Wind tomorrow and probably again Thursday or Friday. Check out the next two images.  They are 3 day (72hr) accumulations of rain Sunday 4PM to Wednesday 4PM, then Wednesday to Saturday. That is as much as…

  • Possible wet snow or freezing rain tonight. Will there be a snow contest winner!?

    Updated 12:45PM The morning’s UWash model run as the system coming a little later and lighter than last night’s, so I have updated some of the text below.  Chance of measurable snow is approaching zero… chance of freezing rain, though, might be a bit more as it may just fall as a drizzle and freeze.…