Author: Alberniweather Blog (Chris)
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Snow and Wind
There is some possible snow in the forecast for Monday and there are a number of nasty very intense low pressure systems brewing in the Pacific, one kicking up 70knot winds just East of the dateline. Looks like they’ll be deflected northward by the remnants of our High Pressure here over the next few days,…
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Valley Cloud today
The forecast today has a term I’ve never seen used: Valley cloud. Fog patches dissipating this afternoon. High plus 5 except plus 1 areas of low cloud In other words, the fog may lift but won’t clear completely everywhere and so it will stay cold in those areas. Great day for a trip over to…
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Snow on the Hills
Lots of cool weather on the slate for the next few days. That big low in Alaska is sending a front our way tonight. Forecast is just for general cloudiness… I dunno… I’m hoping for snow… and I see a little bit of moisture in the satellite image, so who knows.
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Watching the Tracks
A lot of the fun of weather geeking, I find, is just trying to watch stuff come… so here’s something to watch. There’s another low out in the Pacific “intensifying” and headed Gulf of Alaska way that will bring hurricane force winds to regions close to it. The High Seas Forecast (under Forecast–>Marine) predicts it…
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Yarco was snowy
So even though a warning wasn’t posted for us, we got 60kph winds this morning around 4AM… which is warning worthy… so this Storm is now christened Yarco! How much snow did you see? Didn’t last long here but i’m sure the skihills are excited. Update: I got this message today about the lightning storm…