Category: Cold
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Small Atmospheric River Thursday then Sunday Snow?!
Learning something new – AR Scale Last week I learned about a new-to-me scale used to classify Atmospheric River events. Here’s the chart! It’s a pretty cool, and detailed, chart. It uses the “Maximum Vertically Integrated Water Vapour Transport” and the length of an event to come up with a category from 1 being beneficial…
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The rains have come – Atmospheric River Thursday and Friday?
It rained on Friday. It rained on Sunday. It rained this morning. It will rain tomorrow. and Wednesday. All these days did and will feature rain. Thankfully, it won’t be a downpour 24/7 like this time last year as we began our November deluge. But it will definitely rain. By Wednesday we could see up…
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Record Breaking start to October
It feels overly hot, because it is. If you felt like the first days of October got off to an unusually hot start, you’re right. We hit 28.0ºC and 29.3ºC on Saturday and Sunday respectively. That easily beat the Airport records for those days of 24.8ºC and 23.0ºC. Saturday will be a runner up to…
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Snow for Ground Hog Day? – Maybe Not for Port Alberni
After nearly a month without seeing snow, are we about to see some new white stuff fall from the sky? Unfortunately, snow lovers might be disappointed. The 24 hour snow accumulation pictured above shows very little snow south of Campbell River. It actually looks like Vancouver and the Fraser Valley will get some but the…
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15cm on the ground – What’s Next – More Flurries, Snow. Warmer and Rain starts Saturday.
Welcome to winter. It’s been so cold and snowy since December 21st it’s hard to believe we’re not even a month into winter! Last night’s winter storm definitely delivered on everything that was predicted. Rain, sleet, lots of snow, and some freezing rain for us, (thankfully not too much) but a lot more freezing rain…