Category: Storm

  • Big Snowfall on its way

    UPDATED: See updated images, the old ones I’ve moved to the bottom so you can compare… actually looks a little colder, more snowy. A little. The models all agree. The forecasters all agree. We’re going to get snow. And a bunch of it. Environment Canada is predicting 10-20cm through Tuesday night. Accuweather.com is predicting a…

  • Good :UPDATED: *Major* Snow then Wash it away.

    UPDATE: After listening to a worried Mark Madryga talking about a “dump” of snow for the Fraser Valley and after seeing this post by Accuweathers Bret Anderson, I thought it worth the update. Mr. Anderson is calling for up to 25cm across the Island, with up to 40cm (1ft 3in) in our area through Wednesday.…

  • Santa’s Sou’wester is the best

    Good thing Santa has expert taylors and the best quality clothing for his epic journey because once he gets to the West Coast of North America he might need everything he can get plus a snorkel too. As you’ve no doubt seen by now we have a rainfall warning issued for us. This will be…

  • Maybe not snow for Christmas… but is this weekend close enough?

    So it’s increasingly looking like there is not much chance for a White Christmas Morning. More on that in a bit… However, there is at least a chance that we could have flakes in the air over the weekend and even into next week. There is some arctic high pressure just now pressing into the…

  • 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…