Year: 2014
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February 2014 Summary – The drought breaks, old man winter comes late
Historic drought eases but remains below normal very cold temperatures meant snow! February, which usually is our first break from the wet monsoons of November, December and January, this year acted as a bit of a saviour. After months of historic dryness, we received a normal amount of precipitation. And much of it in the…
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Rainy week, but relatively warm
The rain today should end around noon but it’s going to be wet all week. It will be cool and showery through Tuesday afternoon and then a pause until Wednesday when the next large system is coming through in a one-two punch Wednesday morning and evening. The good news is if the forecast holds we…
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UPDATED 4PM: East Island Snow Saturday afternoon and Sunday. Not much here.
A warning has been issued for the East Island of up to 25cm of snow through Sunday. A statement continues for our area up to 15cm. Here is the statement for Inland VI, you can get to the warnings for East VI and Metro Vancouver on the forecast link at the top. Statements Inland Vancouver…
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HEADS UP: In case of dissension in models, hope for the best, prepare for the worst.
I will update this forecast if this mornings run changes things significantly. Stay tuned…. We have precipitation coming at us for Sunday and Monday for sure, however, much like last weekend when the models didn’t all come into agreement until the day before, this weekend we again have disagreement and a lot of variability in…
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Dry through the weekend, possible snow Sunday night / Monday
Once again there is dissension in the model ranks. Contrary to the official EC forecast, the UW forecast model has no chance of precipitation of any kind today, Friday, Saturday, or Sunday morning. Here is the precip map stretching from Thursday 4AM to Sunday 4AM. It’s bone dry for us. So if we do happen…