Year: 2015
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May the 4th be with you this Monday morning!
After a positively perfect weekend with high over 21°C, the darker side of the weather will return and give us some clouds and even possible thunder in the skies. Some rain will invade around 3PM this afternoon but the true power will be felt in the wind as its barbed indicators line up on our…
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It’s May! Bring on the sunshine and flowers!
After a relatively dry and warm April (more on that in the upcoming monthly summary, we are starting May off right with maybe just a few showers today and a sunny weekend. The webcam is looking pretty good. There will be just a few showers lingering in the mountains this afternoon. After that, it…
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Chance of showers but improving toward weekend
We have had some pretty variable weather of late. And that invariably leads to rainbows like this one yesterday! Or moody skies like these on Tuesday at VIU. There are scattered showers around the Island today, not much should actually accumulate though and we might get some patches of sun. Friday will be similar but…
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Warm Monday Afternoon – Showers everyday of the week – Maybe Sunny next week?
It will be mostly cool and wet… except for Monday, when it is supposed to be quite warm by afternoon. Here is the temperature map for Monday 5PM showing temperatures up to 68ºF/20ºC in the Valley. I’ll believe it when it happens. The rest of the week appears to be much cooler… in the…
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Wild Rainy Friday afternoon and evening – drying Saturday – rain Sunday
As I type, the rain is coming down very hard in Nanaimo. in fact, it is doing just as the UWash model said it would…. Notice the blob of rain off Nanaimo in the image below. There are eports of heavy rain, hail, even a water spout was spotted in Georgia Strait yesterday. The…