Category: Cold
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Confidence grows for snow Saturday/Sunday – will be updating later – and snowpack!
We are going to get a bit of a break from the wet snowy weather today and Friday but the weekend is still a big question mark. The GFS out of The University of Washington has been going strongly in favour of heavy snow late Saturday and into Sunday. None of the other models, the…
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Picture post! More snow than expected. Rain and warmth coming next!
We lucked out and it stayed quite a bit colder than was originally forecast! We ended up with one of the biggest totals of snow on the Island along with Courtenay. 8.5cm was measured at Alberniweather HQ. It’s going to get warm too. It should be 5°C or more today and tomorrow. Then Wednesday morning…
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Updated Thursday: Travelling this weekend? Prepare for Significant Snow.
Update: BRRR! It’s cold out there. The models have shifted the snow from Sunday to Monday morning. Environment Canada has also issued a Special Weather statement warning of the possibility of a snow storm. We have to wait until the forecast comes into the short term before saying for sure where and when and how…
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Cold by Sunday/Monday and onwards
There are some flurries in the official forecast but don’t expect them to amount to anything. The UWash models has us snow free and dry but mostly cloudy through Sunday. Sunday and Monday temperatures will drop below freezing at night. By Tuesday night we could be looking at temperatures approaching -5° C. It’s going to…
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Jet stream giveth and taketh away
It’s the height of the cold snap back East. I saw wind chills of -60F reported in the Midwest. New York City has set a new record low of -5F (-20C) for this day. It’s cold and here’s why. The news has clung on to the words “Polar Vortex”. I think it’s kind of a…