Author: Alberniweather Blog (Chris)
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Chance of snow or showers Thursday night but mostly a very dry November.
Cold this morning! This was the coldest morning so far this year at Alberniweather. We got as low as -4.2ºC at 5AM! That should be as low as we get this week but it’s not going to warm up much until the weekend when we should stay above freezing and get up to 10ºC with…
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Snowy to the East and South – Cold Everywhere
Morning Flurries There were patches of flurries happening all the way from Parksville to Nanaimo this morning. There was snow on the ground in Coombs and Errington, but neither of these were true in Port Alberni (except perhaps deeper Beaver Creek/Beaufort) It has continued to flurry off and on for the past few hours here…
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Snow or no?
Check out the October Summary Don’t miss the October 2022 Summary post and the 20 records set last month in Port Alberni! Chance of Snow Saturday Night – early Sunday especially the Hump and Sutton? The moisture will move onto the Island tonight. You can see the model predicting rain (greys/blacks) in the low areas…
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October 2022 – October Heat Leads to Raft of Records and Shocking Averages
Records were set!
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Small Atmospheric River Thursday then Sunday Snow?!
Learning something new – AR Scale Last week I learned about a new-to-me scale used to classify Atmospheric River events. Here’s the chart! It’s a pretty cool, and detailed, chart. It uses the “Maximum Vertically Integrated Water Vapour Transport” and the length of an event to come up with a category from 1 being beneficial…