Category: Cold
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Happy First Day of Winter! White Christmas chances slim. Maybe Sunny instead!
Winter began today at 2:44AM PST. With some snow still hanging around and now a chill back in the air this morning it definitely feels like the season. You may be wondering whether it will feel any more like the Christmas season this weekend? EC has a chance of “rain or snow” for Christmas Eve,…
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Back to seasonal temperatures. Stormy Tuesday. Likely green Christmas but we can hope 🙂
The snowfall warning yesterday was a bust. The Arctic just wasn’t strong enough over the South Island and much of the precipitaiton during the day focused on Metro Vancouver. There is over 40cm of snow in some parts of Surrey! We will now transition to a wet and possibly windy pattern this week. The rest…
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Snowfall Warning Issued – 10-20cm – possible Freezing Rain
Final Update 9PM Sunday The warm winds have come. We have gone from 0°C to 4°C in less than 30 minutes and the wind has switched to the SSW. Strong winds are reported on the East side. 50-60kph at Hornby Island. Expect the Snowfall Warning to be lifted soon. Update 12PM Drizzle is starting in some…
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Snow, Freezing Rain and Rain on the horizon plus… a surprise?
EC’s updated weather statement at 4PM Friday says As usual, snowfalls will be highly variable; current thinking is 5 to 15 cm of snow by dinner time Sunday with the higher amounts expected inland and over higher terrain. That’s up to 6 inches for the old fashioned folks! It might be very messy out there…
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In the Deep Freeze! And snow squalls in Parksville/Nanaimo area today
It is currently -9.9ºC out at the Airport and -4.1ºC at Alberniweather! BRRR. Thankfully, the roads are well salted. I had no issues going over the hump or driving in town this morning as long as I kept away from the frozen snow on the sides. In Coombs, Qualicum and Parksville and now Nanaimo there…