Category: Cold
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Models flippy/floppy will it be dry cold or white cold?
So right off the top, gotta say that the weather models have been all over the place the past few days. Yesterday they said the week would be completely dry (as did the EC forecast), today, they’re telling us there could be some sort of precipitation almost all week. So really, any forecast more than…
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What a Day…. change in forecast
Well… that was quite the day wasn’t it? Blizzards, sun… snow, slush, ice, and a lot of mayhem on the Hump. Well, the good news is it looks like the worst might be over. I just noticed that EC has put out a special update to their forecast at 8:59PM tonight. They’ve gone from 5-10cm…
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“Strait Effect” snow on the way
Last nights beautiful clear and cold break has set us up nicely for, I think, a bit of “Strait Effect” snow. Update There is a Snowfall warming for East Coast of Vancouver Island, up to 15cm of snow tonight through tomorrow. Over the next 24 hours a low is going to develop off of the…
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Careful driving!
Just got back from Powell River and the hump was a whiteout with an inch of snow on the road. Not much plowing happening though they were going up the hill when I came down, so they might have just been on a shift change or something. If you happen to be going over tonight…
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Persistent borderline cold forecast
After a couple of wild days things should start to settle down today. Then the battle begins between the cold and the warm air. The models have been pretty consistent with cold air, especially for later this week… but they aren’t totally unanimous. The GFS has us getting mightily cold the first week of march……