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A White Christmas? Lynn Ruttan the Snow winner! Winter Solstice 8:48PM tonight
Welcome to the last day of Fall! (The winter solstice is officially set for 8:48PM December 21st) For the first time, we have had a repeat winner in our snow contest! Congratulations to Lynn Ruttan whose guess of 3:05PM Thursday was closest to the time we received 5cm of snow at Alberniweater. Lynn wins a…
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Threat of Snow remains – Drive Carefully
Final Update 10:30AM – Snow threat waning. It looks like things are starting to calm as the rain lightens up. It’s still cold enough (1.4ºC) that if we get another strong bit of precipitation it will fall as wet snow. And some areas will still be seeing snow now. It will rain off and all…
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UPDATE 12:30PM – Will it Snow? Will it Snow? Will it Snow? Probably no. Not much.
Update 9:30PM – Models still split but the most reliable ones say rain, not snow. Here are the various runs as of now: It seems to indicate that there is more chance of snow, but the highest resolution ones, including the UWash below, say no snow for most areas of the Alberni Valley. It is much…
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Rain returns Thursday – White Christmas Unlikely
I have already had a whole bunch of people ask for a Christmas forecast. The short answer is if you want to see snow this Christmas, head to Mount Washington. They should do quite well. :). There do not appear to be any indications of an imminent cold snap so ya, green Christmas me thinks. 🙂 In…
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Monthly Summary November 2015 – Mostly Normal – El Niño Effects – Letter to MP on Station
Unusually Normal November (right before a stormy start to December). Much like last year where the November summary was delayed because of a wild start to December that led to massive flooding along the Somass, this past first week of December has been notable for both its rain and wind. However, this summary is for…
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