Category: Cold
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Snow on the Ground – Wind Blowing – Winter Storm on the Way
Started a little early The snow seemed to get off to a bit of an early start this morning. There was already a bit of snow on the ground when I got up. By 9AM there was about 1cm and light snow in Port Alberni. It was similar elsewhere on the Island with some seeing…
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UPDATE 9PM Monday – SNOWFALL AND WINTER STORM WARNINGS ISSUED
Warnings Issued This afternoon Environment Canada issued The Snowfall Warnings are for anywhere from 10-20cm. The Wind Storm Warnings add strong Winds over 50kph on the northern parts of the East side of the Island but realistically we can expect some wind in all areas. In short: There is a good chance we will have…
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Sunday precipitation dries up – moves to Tuesday
Frosty Morning It was a beautiful but very frosty and icy morning this morning! I’m sad I’ve not yet figured out what is wrong with my webcam because it would have been a great morning for it. Hopefully this weekend I can figure it out! We got down to -3.6ºC this morning at Alberniweather. Our…
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Chilly – Poor Air Quality – Until Sunday
Expect an Inversion It’s fall, and while we haven’t had the rain we normally get in November, we are now getting into inversion conditions with cold air being trapped in local Valleys like ours, and warmer air up in the hills. You can expect poor Air Quality to accompany the inversion. If you can avoid…
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Snowy to the East and South – Cold Everywhere
Morning Flurries There were patches of flurries happening all the way from Parksville to Nanaimo this morning. There was snow on the ground in Coombs and Errington, but neither of these were true in Port Alberni (except perhaps deeper Beaver Creek/Beaufort) It has continued to flurry off and on for the past few hours here…