Month: January 2012

  • It’s gonna Snow! Weeeee!

    I see Environment Canada has come fully on board with the snow forecast this morning! In fact I think, at least according to the charts I’m looking at, that they are going a little overboard. They are predicting 2-4cm of snow to fall tonight. On that I agree. However, they are also predicting snow to…

  • Snowy week ahead – starting slow.

    The models seem to be settling and coming into good agreement now that we are destined for whiteness starting perhaps as soon as Friday night and Satirday morning. One thing should be noted: don’t expect large snowfalls. There does not appear to be a big batch of moisture until Wednesday or Thursday next week. Saturday…

  • Inversion, fog… Then snow?

    The next couple days, until the weekend, are going to look and feel like our weather back in November and early December. Foggy. Chilly. And pretty hohum. But then. Ok. just kidding! That picture is from Cordova, Alaska, a place very much like ours. A little more used to rain than, 10 meters of snow,…

  • Back to cool and dry but foggy

    Not too much to report on the weather front for the coming days. We are back into the pattern we had in December of cool and dry weather. This is really starting to turn into a remarkably dry and snow-less winter which could cause problems for some areas (East island and Victoria) that depend on…

  • Happy Birthday Stephen Hawking

    Stephen Hawking, one of the leading scientists, of our time turns 70 today. He has always tackled the biggest questions. (Can you get much bigger than how the Universe was created?) He also has a sense of humour, dark as it may be. Here is a short excerpt of an interview from 2008. The question,…