Category: Cold

  • Windy day before the cold and flurries

    A special Sunday forecast! Ironically, we may have already set a new short term (1995) record high at the Airport for December 1st. It’s 11° C here in town at Alberniweather. That bests the 9.6° C from 2008 at the Airport. We will see later what the Airport gets to for its high, it all…

  • Beautiful weather continues – November drying out.

    Is it November? I don’t know, but it sure doesn’t seem like it. Here we were expecting some more storms to roll in by next week and give us some familiar november rain, but instead it looks like the High that has kept us cold is going to stick around and at least keep us…

  • Snow possible this weekend? Cold looming?

    It’s going to be an interesting weekend and actually into next week but we will focus on the next three days for now. The chance for showers is rising as you read this. All parts of Vancouver Island *except* Alberni is forecast to get rained on. As you can see from the image, we are…

  • Climate Change in Port Alberni – Snow? What Snow?

    Over the past few weeks I’ve been extending some work I did a few months back pouring through the historical weather and climate records in the Alberni Valley. Since, according to the latest IPCC report1 warming of the climate is now deemed ‘unequivocal’ and the change ‘unprecedented’ since the 1950s, and further, that ‘human influence…

  • Variable today. Showers Thursday morning. Wintery Weekend coming.

    Thank you all for entering in the snow contest! It looks like we just made it under the wire because there is a chance for light flurries as soon as Sunday! Today will be variable, we will likely have some showers sweep through plus sunny breaks. Below you can see that on Thursday morning we…