Category: Cold
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Chilly – Poor Air Quality – Until Sunday
Expect an Inversion It’s fall, and while we haven’t had the rain we normally get in November, we are now getting into inversion conditions with cold air being trapped in local Valleys like ours, and warmer air up in the hills. You can expect poor Air Quality to accompany the inversion. If you can avoid…
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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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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…
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The rains have come – Atmospheric River Thursday and Friday?
It rained on Friday. It rained on Sunday. It rained this morning. It will rain tomorrow. and Wednesday. All these days did and will feature rain. Thankfully, it won’t be a downpour 24/7 like this time last year as we began our November deluge. But it will definitely rain. By Wednesday we could see up…