Month: February 2011

  • It finally stuck – More coming with wind.

    After twio days of dashed hopes and slushy messes falling from the sky we wake up today with snow on the ground here at Alberniweather. We have about 5cm on the porch. If you have snow please feel free to announce your accumulation and general location in the comments. This week will be pretty active.…

  • Update 2: Keeping the Snow dream alive

    UPDATE 2 Be careful on the hump. It’s nasty up there.. traffic looks light, but looks very slippery. Looks like rain only on the East Coast right now. UPDATE 1 The slush has come. Will it stay slush… will it switch to snow… we will watch and wish… then we’ll know. __________________ This is pretty…

  • UPDATE 4: Sunday snowier than Saturday

    UPDATE 4: Last update of the night. In a strange twist… it appears that nearly all the snow today has been focused on Vancouver with a little in Victoria and Nanaimo but nothing of significance. Instead. We got a little sun, and above freezing temperatures. Not bad, I’d say. but it’s not going to last.…

  • February 25 Record Low Temp

    Wanted to let you know that it looks like Port Alberni set a new record for extreme low temperature for February 25. The old record was set at Robertson Creek Hatchery in 1993 at -10C. This morning the Environment Canada station at the Airport registered -11C. So that makes it a record. The record for…

  • UPDATE: Could be a Weekend or Week to remember?!

    UDPATE: Check the update below OK, I’ve made you wait long enough. Here’s the deal. Tonight. Very Cold. Friday. Cold Again (and Sunny!) Saturday… lets look: The GFS is telling us around 10cm will fall between Saturday and Sunday afternoon, most of it Sunday. The Canadian Model says much the same or maybe a little…