Category: Wind

  • El Nino is finally coming

    UPDATE: Flood Watch Ended for Port Alberni thanks to cooler temps/snow in mountains — But Flood Warning for Cowichan Valley issued (details here) As Jeff Masters at WUnderground and many other weather bloggers have said… this year hasn’t been your typical El Nino year in North America. Why? Because we had an exceptionally negative Arctic…

  • The rain *is* coming… and other weather news.

    So it’s really been a fairly boring start to 2010 so far. Especially considering what we went last year, this year just seems downright normal! (It actually feels pretty normal to me, this is what I remember winters being like growing up). But, do not despair last week the models were saying we’d get a…

  • Happy New Year… two weeks of Wet! (and wind?)

    So doing my regular swipe through the forecast models today and I came across a beauty of a long range forecast. Basically, our first few weeks of 2010 are going to be wet. And not just a little wet. If the forecast holds (and yes, that’s a big if right now) then between January 1…

  • Rain Rain, what about Christmas?

    So you might be wondering what the Christmas forecast is? Well… it’s still a ways out there… but you might just be looking at it right now. That’s right. A little bit of wind, a bunch of wet..and lots of green. It’s not all bad news though, there is start amongst the weather blogs that…

  • Days of Teasing… now a Warning!

    Update 2: The Snowfall Warning has now ended. I’ll have a new post up tomorrow. UPDATE: We have a Winner! Zsolt Hengsperger! The Winner has Won a Fabulous NOMA LED Flashlight! Could the winner please email me at chrisale at gmail dot com and we can set up a time for him to come pick…