Tag: Storm

  • Snow and Wind

    There is some possible snow in the forecast for Monday and there are a number of nasty very intense low pressure systems brewing in the Pacific, one kicking up 70knot winds just East of the dateline. Looks like they’ll be deflected northward by the remnants of our High Pressure here over the next few days,…

  • Yarco was snowy

    So even though a warning wasn’t posted for us, we got 60kph winds this morning around 4AM… which is warning worthy… so this Storm is now christened Yarco! How much snow did you see? Didn’t last long here but i’m sure the skihills are excited. Update: I got this message today about the lightning storm…

  • Should we start Naming?

    So we’re supposed to get (actually should already be, according to the Satellite) a bunch of rain and some wind tonight and tomorrow. Maybe we should start naming our storms? Why do Hurricanes and Typhoons get all the fun? We don’t get no respect. There’s gotta be rules though right? So here’s the three. Season…

  • Warnings posted

    There are Rain and Wind warnings posted for Inland Vancouver Island: Total rainfall amounts of 100 mm expected for Inland Vancouver Island by Monday evening. Westerly winds up to 80 km/h are expected to develop Monday for Inland Vancouver Island. See Update. There are warnings posted for other parts of Vancouver Island, and most of…

  • Good luck Hawaii Mars Bomber

    Where did this wind come from?? Seems to be quite localized to our fair towm. Don’t see any other wind on islandweather.ca Hawaii Mars left the Valley yesterday to escape the fog and spent the night in Nanoose Bay. They’re making the 6 hour flight to California today… good luck to them!!