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Cooling, clearing, drying trend through Wednesday. Disagreements on Snow potential
This morning will start cloudy again but this should be the last day of low cloud as we shift back to an Arctic outflow type situation. The great image below shows the dry, and cold, air streaming out of the Interior, over the Island and out to the Pacific by Tuesday morning. That is a pretty clear…
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December and Annual 2016 Summary – Cold and Hot!
December cooled off an otherwise Hot Year. It took me a while to get to this post… lots of stuff going on these days! However, it is worth the wait. Wow, 2016 was another big year for weather! Unlike the world, which had its 3rd consecutive warmest (header image from NOAA) year on record. Port Alberni did…
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Likely foggy most of the week. Might be breaks on Tuesday, and Friday possible flurries.
We should get a break from the rain or snow most of these week as we settle into a pretty stagnant pattern. This is going to give us fog though or low cloud in the Valley as the humidity level remains high this morning. You can see the whisps of blue humid air in the…
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Scattered showers over next few days – Ending California Drought?
Thursday, Friday and Saturday all will have scattered showers over the Island as we receive the tailing north edges of moisture that is mainly impacting California as you can see below. They may end up with some flooding down there, but the good news is they might come out of this winter officially at the…
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Quick Update – Times for heaviest rain
The rain has come and boy does it feel nice. 🙂 Just a quick update to give you an idea of when to expect the heaviest rain. We had one strong pulse come through around 6AM this morning. It was raining very hard on the Hump with water pooling on the road. The next strong…
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