Category: Wet
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“Tule Fog” Capital of the World 🙂
Just heard something I’ve never heard before. The term “Tule Fog”. From what I can gather from this Accuweather report from California, Tule Fog (pronounced “Toolee” Fog) is the generic inversion layer type fog that we get here pretty much all winter. There is a beautiful Satellite image of the entirety of Central California covered…
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Careful driving today
There may be some snow on the roads today, especially places like Sutton Pass and the Hump as we have a weak system moving through that could give us some flurries. No large accumulations from what I can see and we should have a little rain tomorrow before it dries off on the weekend. The…
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A Warm week ahead
After this mornings snowfall ends (we have about 2cm here). It’s going to warm up much like it did on Wednesday and it’s going to stay warm as a more southwesterly flow takes hold and delivers plenty of rain from the sub-tropics. You’ll want to keep your drains clear in case we get any bursts…
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Snow Day! Don’t break your back shovelling
Well it’s official. We have our first Snow Day of 2011! Both Vancouver Island University and SD70 are closed. Nanaimo SD is closed as well according to CKNW. It is currently sleeting and/or raining. So this snow is going to get very heavy very quickly. I wouldn’t shovel it unless you absolutely have to. What…
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Late Start, Forecast still solid
If you were anything like me, and I know a bunch of your are 🙂 you spent your day today checking out the window wondering where the flakes were (aside from inside hah!) Well, they have come! It is now snowing and pretty hard! It’s not exactly accumulating fast, but I could certainly see 20cm…