Month: February 2011
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“Strait Effect” snow on the way
Last nights beautiful clear and cold break has set us up nicely for, I think, a bit of “Strait Effect” snow. Update There is a Snowfall warming for East Coast of Vancouver Island, up to 15cm of snow tonight through tomorrow. Over the next 24 hours a low is going to develop off of the…
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Careful driving!
Just got back from Powell River and the hump was a whiteout with an inch of snow on the road. Not much plowing happening though they were going up the hill when I came down, so they might have just been on a shift change or something. If you happen to be going over tonight…
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Persistent borderline cold forecast
After a couple of wild days things should start to settle down today. Then the battle begins between the cold and the warm air. The models have been pretty consistent with cold air, especially for later this week… but they aren’t totally unanimous. The GFS has us getting mightily cold the first week of march……
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Definite change coming
We’re going to get another bout of heavy rain tomorrow…. but I’m looking beyond that now because if the models are accurate (and they’ve been consistent on this for almost a week now) we look to be setting up for another bout of cold and potentially snowy, weather. Here are todays results from the Global…
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Rain Rain go away, bring some snow another day
We’re looking at 24hours of rain (afternoon Friday-afternoon Saturday)… then a break.. then some more rain on Monday and Tuesday. Keep those drains clear and all that good stuff. After the rain stops on Tuesday there is a cool down coming. I would give us a 30% chance of accumulating snow late next week around…