Category: Wet

  • Hopefully rain today and this week. May include wet snow but will also be sunny and warm!

    Hopefully rain today and this week. May include wet snow but will also be sunny and warm!

    It has been very dry of late so the chance of rain today is encouraging. It must be spring. We have rain, snow, sun, freezing temperatures and warm all in the forecast this week. Southeast winds should pick up this morning and showers should begin to sweep down the south Island around 8AM this morning…

  • 11 degrees on Sunday! Hour forward Saturday night. Rain/snow possible Monday.

    11 degrees on Sunday! Hour forward Saturday night. Rain/snow possible Monday.

    A short post today. There is a little skiff of snow on the road here in Parksville as I ride on the bus. Skies were a little clearer in Port Alberni and no hint of white stuff. Skies should clear a little more across the Island today and we should end up with a very…

  • Higher Elevation snow likely Tuesday.

    Higher Elevation snow likely Tuesday.

    Environment Canada is calling for snow this morning turning to rain in the afternoon. The UWash model agrees and goes a little further on the rain front, predicting snow only for higher elevations. Showers or flurries will be light at best anyway so I don’t expect a lot of concern from today’s precipitation. Wednesday and…

  • January 2019 Summary – Fairly normal, though 1º above average temperature.

    January 2019 Summary – Fairly normal, though 1º above average temperature.

    The Alberniweather and Alberni Valley Climate Summary for January 2019 Catching up on this month… this post was actually written January 3 2020 but is back-dated so it makes sense in the grand scheme of things. 🙂 The average temperature this month at the airport was just over 1ºC higher than normal. January had a…

  • Fog continues until Wednesday

    Fog continues until Wednesday

    We are in a pretty set pattern of inversion that continues to deliver fog for most of the Valley and bright clear skies above and outside the Valley. All thanks to the Jetstream flying far to the north of us. Expect this pattern to continue until Wednesday when the jet straightens out again and will…