Category: General
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Rain has come – west coast warning – dazzling aurora
The rain is here to stay for a few days. A Heavy rainfall warning is in effect for the West Coast of the Island. Thursday Rain all day. Heaviest rain before noon. Total: 30mm between 5AM Thursday/Friday. Friday Rain all day. With the heaviest as the system departs around 8PM. Total up to 30mm. 60-120…
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Counting down to Spring Equinox – A cool and variable week – Zero South Island Snowpack
For the first time in a while we have what could actually be described as a normal span of spring (even though it’s technically still not spring) weather on tap. In case you’re wondering, the first day of Spring is Friday, March 20th at 3:46PM (click for a countdown!). We have a couple systems coming our…
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Pattern switches briefly but worst of rain might miss us.
There was something very comfortable about waking up on Wednesday to the sound and feel of rain. We received about 25mm of rain which was a little more than forecast. Unfortunately, none of it fell as snow at either snowpack station. We remain at zero snowpack at the south island Jump Creek station. The Wolf River station…
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Not just us in the Fog – Warm then Rain coming Wednesday – First Zero Snowpack?
Don’t worry, it’s not just us in the Fog. Here is the scene just now at VIU looking down the hill towards Nanaimo. It’s quite the fog bank down there! This was more like how we all remember the weekend that just past though! Beautiful, blue, and warm. We should get back to that this…
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Spring Ahead this Weekend with Warm Weather! And what are those spots!?
Don’t forget about the time change this weekend! You will be setting your clocks FORWARD one hour when you go to bed on Saturday. (so you might want to consider going to bed an hour earlier than normal to compensate 🙂 ) I always find the leap forward to be the harder of the transitions.…