Category: General
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First loooong look at Christmas and Wet Sunday
A couple have asked, so here’s the first look, at the very edges of the forecasts… for the Christmas period. This is the upperlevel temperature (to see if the air up high could support snow) and surface pressures for 4PM Christmas Eve Day (the furthest the models go): What that tells me is that around…
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A nice weekend (fog depending) and maybe a little whitestuff
Looks like we have a similar setup coming at us for this weekend as we did a couple weeks ago. We shouldn’t be getting the big dump that we did last time, but it’s going to get chilly over the weekend, and then a Pacific front should sweep through Monday and Tuesday and we’ll play…
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Congratulations to RevJim on his Christmas Lights!
In all the craziness last week with the snow and everything the deserving winner of the Snow Contest didn’t really get his place in the spotlight. So. CONGRATULATIONS TO REVJIM! RevJim was the lucky winner of a box of LED multi-colour Christmas Lights from Canadian Tire. Here’s a photo of lights, they’re under the icicle…
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Big Snow or big No?
The Environment Canada forecast is pretty clear which way it’s going. They think we’re going to get a fair amount of snow tomorrow and maybe even some into tomorrow night when the moisture is really supposed to fall. Here’s the GFS model. It has us at a pretty steady temperature, but not below freezing from…
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Careful on the Roads – Enjoy the Sun
It will be very cold for the next day or two and then there is a chance of snow on Thursday with rain right behind it. I’ve just come from Port Alberni to VIU in Nanaimo and the roads are generally clear. The Hump is heavily sanded with some snowy sections. It’s passable but I…