Category: General
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A White Christmas? Lynn Ruttan the Snow winner! Winter Solstice 8:48PM tonight
Welcome to the last day of Fall! (The winter solstice is officially set for 8:48PM December 21st) For the first time, we have had a repeat winner in our snow contest! Congratulations to Lynn Ruttan whose guess of 3:05PM Thursday was closest to the time we received 5cm of snow at Alberniweater. Lynn wins a…
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UPDATE 12:30PM – Will it Snow? Will it Snow? Will it Snow? Probably no. Not much.
Update 9:30PM – Models still split but the most reliable ones say rain, not snow. Here are the various runs as of now: It seems to indicate that there is more chance of snow, but the highest resolution ones, including the UWash below, say no snow for most areas of the Alberni Valley. It is much…
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Rain returns Thursday – White Christmas Unlikely
I have already had a whole bunch of people ask for a Christmas forecast. The short answer is if you want to see snow this Christmas, head to Mount Washington. They should do quite well. :). There do not appear to be any indications of an imminent cold snap so ya, green Christmas me thinks. 🙂 In…
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Final Update 8AM Sunday – Final Storm of December procession could be biggest.
Final Update 8AM Sunday – Warning Over. A look at wind around the Island. Environment Canada has removed the Wind warning for our area. Once again, yesterday has proven that predicting high winds in Port Alberni is exceedingly difficult. Our top gust at Alberniweather was only 38kph while Maquinna school got up to 58kph. Warnings…
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Rain tapering to showers. Thursday, Friday and Saturday rain or wind storm.
As you will see from the 24 hour image below, the intensity of the rainfall we have gotten used to over the past week is starting to back off. The next 24hrs has only 8-16mm of rain forecast. That said there is another bunch of rain coming through starting Thursday and lasting much of the…