Year: 2011
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Happy Winter Solstice (Yule)
Today, Dec 21st at 9:30PM Pacific Standard Time is the winter solstice and will mark the longest night of the year and the official start of winter. (5:30AM on Dec 22 UTC) If you would like some really fascinating reading about how the different cultures of the world mark this important day, check out the…
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Snow Bust!
And no I’m not talking about Amundsen’s ice bust on display today at the South Pole in honour of 100 years since he made it there. I’m talking about our snow forecast here… Or lack of it materializing. There is still a chance it could cool down enough tonight for us to get some snow……
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Warm start less snow?
I noticed as I went to bed last night that we were holding steady at 1C and we remain there this morning. It could still snow at this temperature but the likelihood of it persisting diminishes. It’s so hard to tell what will happen when we are on the borderline like this. It seems like…
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Wednesday snow start of mild, greener, pattern
All accounts, forecasts and models are predicting snow for Wednesday night now. It should start after 4PM? There is a chance that it will be purely rain. I’m just throwing that out there so no one is surprised if it happens. (covering ones, uh, options, I think it is called :)) With the trapped cool…
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Good Morning Snow! – Main Snowfall still coming Wednesday afternoon/evening
We have received a nice little dusting of snow overnight. 🙂 There is about 1cm here at Alberniweather.ca HQ. The Env. Canada forecast has also changed slightly and agrees more with what other models are saying (and I was going with) and has us getting some more snow tonight and yet more snow Wednesday night.…