Category: General
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Snow, Freezing Rain and Rain on the horizon plus… a surprise?
EC’s updated weather statement at 4PM Friday says As usual, snowfalls will be highly variable; current thinking is 5 to 15 cm of snow by dinner time Sunday with the higher amounts expected inland and over higher terrain. That’s up to 6 inches for the old fashioned folks! It might be very messy out there…
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In the Deep Freeze! And snow squalls in Parksville/Nanaimo area today
It is currently -9.9ºC out at the Airport and -4.1ºC at Alberniweather! BRRR. Thankfully, the roads are well salted. I had no issues going over the hump or driving in town this morning as long as I kept away from the frozen snow on the sides. In Coombs, Qualicum and Parksville and now Nanaimo there…
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November 2016 Summary and Outlook – Rain and Warm
Remember November? Before the snow… it rained, forever! There are 30 days in November. It rained on 28 of them. This is right after it rained 29 out of the 31 days which appeared to be the most since 1963. So in total it has rained 57 of a possible 61 days when it rained in the…
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UPDATED 1PM Saturday —- Late Sunday Snow into Monday morning and evening
Update 1PM Saturday The morning high resolution models are finished and the forecast has refined a bit. Port Alberni will probably only get snow late Sunday night around midnight. After that, most of the chance focuses on the east side and will depend on the outflow winds picking up snow along the Strait and dumping…
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Mostly dry Monday! Rain Tuesday. And… cooling enough for…. sn..? 🙂
We should get a nice break today. It will be fairly warm as well. We shift back into rain on Monday night and Tuesday. Here is the 24hr total 4PM/4PM Monday/Tuesday. We are in the green, up to 30mm wih Sproat Lake and higher elevations getting into the 65mm or 130mm range. The rain will begin around…