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Cyclone smashes Vanuatu – Arctic powers a drunken Jetstream – CO2 plateau signals path forward.
Updated to add just-released February temp anomaly Some news from the world on this Friday the 13th of March, 2015. Main Island of Vanuatu takes direct hit from Cyclone with 300kph winds There is nothing more powerful, and beautiful, and terrifying, than a Category 5 Hurricane (called a Cyclone in the West Pacific). Last night…
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Pattern switches briefly but worst of rain might miss us.
There was something very comfortable about waking up on Wednesday to the sound and feel of rain. We received about 25mm of rain which was a little more than forecast. Unfortunately, none of it fell as snow at either snowpack station. We remain at zero snowpack at the south island Jump Creek station. The Wolf River station…
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Not just us in the Fog – Warm then Rain coming Wednesday – First Zero Snowpack?
Don’t worry, it’s not just us in the Fog. Here is the scene just now at VIU looking down the hill towards Nanaimo. It’s quite the fog bank down there! This was more like how we all remember the weekend that just past though! Beautiful, blue, and warm. We should get back to that this…
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Spring Ahead this Weekend with Warm Weather! And what are those spots!?
Don’t forget about the time change this weekend! You will be setting your clocks FORWARD one hour when you go to bed on Saturday. (so you might want to consider going to bed an hour earlier than normal to compensate 🙂 ) I always find the leap forward to be the harder of the transitions.…
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Borecast – Same weather continues.
Not much to say really… There are more clouds in the forecast than previous but still quite pleasant. It might be sunny again on the weekend. There does look to be a change coming on Monday or Tuesday but the forecast out that far is changing. At this point it just looks like a bit of rain.…
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