Tag: Storm
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Snow on the Ground – Wind Blowing – Winter Storm on the Way
Started a little early The snow seemed to get off to a bit of an early start this morning. There was already a bit of snow on the ground when I got up. By 9AM there was about 1cm and light snow in Port Alberni. It was similar elsewhere on the Island with some seeing…
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UPDATE 9PM Monday – SNOWFALL AND WINTER STORM WARNINGS ISSUED
Warnings Issued This afternoon Environment Canada issued The Snowfall Warnings are for anywhere from 10-20cm. The Wind Storm Warnings add strong Winds over 50kph on the northern parts of the East side of the Island but realistically we can expect some wind in all areas. In short: There is a good chance we will have…
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Change in Pattern – Wet 7 days ahead
Rain will increase – Starting Friday through the weekend After weeks of dry weather we are finally into what looks like a long term change to more normal rainy fall weather. Expect the rain to begin for real on Friday morning. Here is the picture for early Friday morning, a strong band across the Island.…
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October 2022 – October Heat Leads to Raft of Records and Shocking Averages
Records were set!
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Small Atmospheric River Thursday then Sunday Snow?!
Learning something new – AR Scale Last week I learned about a new-to-me scale used to classify Atmospheric River events. Here’s the chart! It’s a pretty cool, and detailed, chart. It uses the “Maximum Vertically Integrated Water Vapour Transport” and the length of an event to come up with a category from 1 being beneficial…