Month: January 2011
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Snow Day! Don’t break your back shovelling
Well it’s official. We have our first Snow Day of 2011! Both Vancouver Island University and SD70 are closed. Nanaimo SD is closed as well according to CKNW. It is currently sleeting and/or raining. So this snow is going to get very heavy very quickly. I wouldn’t shovel it unless you absolutely have to. What…
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Late Start, Forecast still solid
If you were anything like me, and I know a bunch of your are 🙂 you spent your day today checking out the window wondering where the flakes were (aside from inside hah!) Well, they have come! It is now snowing and pretty hard! It’s not exactly accumulating fast, but I could certainly see 20cm…
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Big Snowfall on its way
UPDATED: See updated images, the old ones I’ve moved to the bottom so you can compare… actually looks a little colder, more snowy. A little. The models all agree. The forecasters all agree. We’re going to get snow. And a bunch of it. Environment Canada is predicting 10-20cm through Tuesday night. Accuweather.com is predicting a…
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Good :UPDATED: *Major* Snow then Wash it away.
UPDATE: After listening to a worried Mark Madryga talking about a “dump” of snow for the Fraser Valley and after seeing this post by Accuweathers Bret Anderson, I thought it worth the update. Mr. Anderson is calling for up to 25cm across the Island, with up to 40cm (1ft 3in) in our area through Wednesday.…
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Could get interesting – Snowfall Warning for East Coast
From their Synopsis: A weak low pressure centre will develop over Vancouver Island tonight. The circulation with the low combined with cold air from the British Columbia interior will produce bands of flurries over the southern sections of East Vancouver Island and the Southern Gulf Islands tonight. Snowfall amounts forecast over southern sections will be…