Category: Cold

  • Possible snow tonight… next week is interesting

    We could have a small accumulation of snow tonight if the fogs sticks around and the temperature stays about where it is now. I wouldn’t expect any serious accumulation in town, but on Sutton Pass and other high areas there should be a significant amount that will fall before turning to mostly rain. That said…

  • Snow on the Snowdrops?

    The next few days will continue to be pretty nice. Should stay cool, sunny and a little breezy. Pretty typical February weather. Our one little patch of snowdrops have appeared in our yard, and I’ve noticed a few crocuses as well. Getting to be a nice time of year. On Friday we will receive a…

  • “Tule Fog” Capital of the World 🙂

    Just heard something I’ve never heard before. The term “Tule Fog”. From what I can gather from this Accuweather report from California, Tule Fog (pronounced “Toolee” Fog) is the generic inversion layer type fog that we get here pretty much all winter. There is a beautiful Satellite image of the entirety of Central California covered…

  • Snow Day! Don’t break your back shovelling

    Well it’s official. We have our first Snow Day of 2011! Both Vancouver Island University and SD70 are closed. Nanaimo SD is closed as well according to CKNW. It is currently sleeting and/or raining. So this snow is going to get very heavy very quickly. I wouldn’t shovel it unless you absolutely have to. What…

  • Late Start, Forecast still solid

    If you were anything like me, and I know a bunch of your are 🙂 you spent your day today checking out the window wondering where the flakes were (aside from inside hah!) Well, they have come! It is now snowing and pretty hard! It’s not exactly accumulating fast, but I could certainly see 20cm…