Category: Storm
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Wind and rain today and Saturday night
UPDATE: 1:14PM Looks like the barometer has bottomed out at 99.3kPa and the wind has picked up on cue. There are power outages in various locations on the East Coast of the Island. Sutton Pass is snow covered, doesn’t look nice. The wind today should stick mainly to the East Coast of the Island but…
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Missed Monday’s Wind… but more coming…
OK… so I got the snow… I got the rain… but where the heck did that WIND come from on Monday night? Wow. That was a doozy! We got up to 77kph here at alberniweather. It’s not actually overly strong for us considering the past 5 years but whenever it gets that strong branches will…
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Messy Monday morning
If your driving this early morning be careful. It was a whiteout when I went over the hump at 6:15am. The cold air is hanging on and giving us very wet snow across the Island but it appears to be sticking most in Alberni. In Qualicum right noe 7am and roads are only wet. The…
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Snow starts on Sutton Pass
Thanks to Tyler’s Heads up on the Sutton pass webcam…. It’s on it’s way. We’re at a snow-perfect 0.5C, moisture has spread across the Island and all is a Go for the flakes to fly. Check out the Alberniweather page on the left hand side to guess on how much we might have to deal…
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Clouds Rolling In — Flurries, then snow, then rain and wind
The clouds have started to roll in and that means the flurries and snow isn’t far behind. We should expect snow to start to fall before the sun goes down today. Major accumulations shouldn’t start until after dinner time. Again though, it will all come down to the temperature at the time. We’re currently just…