Category: Wet
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February Wrap Up – Pretty Normal
I went through my records for February since 2006. In terms of temperatures, this past February has been pretty average. Not overly warm (like 2010) and not overly cold (like 2011). The mean temperature was 3.3C (2010=5.3C 2011=1.9C) It also seems to be about average for my station for rain. 146mm of rain fell, about…
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Magnetic Storm going Strong — Rain Coming
Just checked the Kp graph over at the NOAA that measures geomagnetic storm strengths and looks like things are picking up now after a long storm over the past 18 hours. Best time to see Auroras are around Midnight local time. So if you’re up tonight, take a peak outside towards the North. Who knows,…
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Snow Bust! Again! – But watch out East Island! Whiteout!
We seem to have been bitten by a no-snow bug this year. This is the second time that we’ve been expecting significant snowfall only to end up with green grass. At this point I would be surprised if we get anything at all over night. There doesn’t seem to be much moisture available at all.…
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Little Less Moisture Forecast – Still Snow
Snow is still in the forecast except the amounts of dropped off quite a bit. It looks like there is somewhat less moisture in the atmosphere than they anticipated before so the most we’re going to get is 5cm before it changes to rain in the afternoon. And in fact, with the temperature only just…
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Snow Forecast for Tuesday/Wednesday
So the models have held strong and are still predicting pretty significant snowfall over the next 48 hours starting with light flurries before sunrise Tuesday morning. Here is the GFS for 10AM Tuesday. This is about the earliest that we can expect the first serious snowfall to start up. As you can see in the…