Category: Wind
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Windy – Snowy – Saturday and Weekend
Everybody Gets Some This Time The threat of strait-effect snow seems to have finally passed, but now it’s time for a more traditional snow system to makes it way to Vancouver Island! Starts overnight Friday Starting around 1AM Saturday morning, we can expect to see flurries moving down the Island with light winds. Snowy Saturday…
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Environment Canada wins – Drive Safely on the East Island
Update: Snowfall Warning Issued for Nanaimo/East Island Strait-Effect Snow is occurring. EC refers to it as “snow streamers off the Strait of Georgia”! 5-15cm is possible especially away a little further inland (Coombs, Errington, Jingle Pot, etc) https://weather.gc.ca/warnings/report_e.html?bc46 Treacherous Highway 19 and parts of Highway 4 A quick post to say be careful out there!…
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One more snowy blast? Not seeing it…
Do you? Perhaps the model at UWash is totally out to lunch and wrong but it sure doesn’t see snow or even any precipitation at all after Tuesday. It has most of the moisture leaving the Island by 7PM tonight. There is a small pocket that appears in the very early hours of Thursday morning…
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January 2023 Summary – A fairly average month.
Records were set!
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Minor precipitation Thursday Night – Prepare for Cold on the Weekend
Special Weather Statement Issued. Environment Canada has issued a Special Weather statement for most of the Island. Below is the main parts: A cold spell is in the forecast for most of B.C. Arctic air will invade B.C. beginning overnight Friday, with a major shift in temperature from our mild January. Temperatures will be 5…