Author: Alberniweather
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UPDATE 7: Whoa. Where’s my Parka??
UDPATE 7 2PM Just got back from Nanaimo. Took an hour to get through Nanoose. It’s snowing pretty hard over there still but only in places… you go from whiteout and people slipping everywhere (including trucks) to a clear lane and light snow. The Hump is clear and heavily sanded. UPDATE 6 11AM: I’m headed…
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UPDATED: More snow possible tonight
UPDATE Be careful on the East Coast especially. There are blustery and cold winds blowing from the Northwest and it’s making for slippery driving, and walking! No big accumulations here mainly because of the Beauforts blocking us off, but on the East coast there could be patches of significant accumulation if the Strait effect kicks…
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Models flippy/floppy will it be dry cold or white cold?
So right off the top, gotta say that the weather models have been all over the place the past few days. Yesterday they said the week would be completely dry (as did the EC forecast), today, they’re telling us there could be some sort of precipitation almost all week. So really, any forecast more than…
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What a Day…. change in forecast
Well… that was quite the day wasn’t it? Blizzards, sun… snow, slush, ice, and a lot of mayhem on the Hump. Well, the good news is it looks like the worst might be over. I just noticed that EC has put out a special update to their forecast at 8:59PM tonight. They’ve gone from 5-10cm…
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“Strait Effect” snow on the way
Last nights beautiful clear and cold break has set us up nicely for, I think, a bit of “Strait Effect” snow. Update There is a Snowfall warming for East Coast of Vancouver Island, up to 15cm of snow tonight through tomorrow. Over the next 24 hours a low is going to develop off of the…