Year: 2013
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UPDATED 10AM: Snow will fly, but where will it stick?
Update 10AM: The morning model forecast is out and it’s bad news for snow lovers. Once again, it shows the Alberni Valley getting skunked. And it’s actually showing slightly less accumulations for other areas as well. Though again, if you’re driving anywhere south of Parksville, you’re going to want to be prepared for 10-15cm in…
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Snow clinging to higher elevations and South east island.
Much like last week, the models seem to be backing off on snow in our little Valley. Here is the latest forecast for accumuluations between Thursday and Friday afternoon. Here is the same image zoomed in to the Island. You can see that our Valley is noticeably excluded from the festive colours of snowfall. We…
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Chance of snow increases again – plan travel accordingly
White stuff is in the forecast again after today’s weak rain front passes through. Most of that rain will fall on the west coast. We are being passed over again. By Wednesday night and Thursday morning it is going to cool off a bit and we should be near or below zero. Combine that with…
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Another relatively dry week
We might be in the fog a lot this week. Certainly today and tomorrow will be foggy. Tomorrow (Tuesday) will also feature some rain in the morning. But it will again be one of these fronts coming down from the north which generally fly over top of us and focus their precipitation on the West…
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Another snow miss – Annual gathering of scientists.
Well. It was another miss, Some areas got some wet snow… Maybe even enough to cover the ground. But Alberniweather HQ remains skunked for the season. Only a trace managed to stick to the ground, and it is now long gone after the rain. The reason from the miss? The system just wasn’t as strong…