Category: Cold
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Snow Forecast for Tuesday/Wednesday
So the models have held strong and are still predicting pretty significant snowfall over the next 48 hours starting with light flurries before sunrise Tuesday morning. Here is the GFS for 10AM Tuesday. This is about the earliest that we can expect the first serious snowfall to start up. As you can see in the…
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Warning: Major snow possible Tuesday through Wednesday.
More to come… but just so we’re clear. This could be our biggest snow event of the Winter. Alright, we have a large amount of precipitation coming our way Tuesday. (not so much tonight). Here are some illustrations: Here, this is the Canadian GEM (regional) model for Noon on Tuesday (18Z). Notice the front sweeping…
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Chance of Snow Friday and Friday Night
Looks like the chances for some wet snow is increasing for Friday. Here’s the latest model: I’ve boxed out the two distinct parts of what I think might happen on Friday. The green box is the start of the event, which should be wet but might include sleet/slush especially at higher elevations. The second event…
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Impending Deep Freeze? Maybe not.
Sorry for the downtime. My routine has been thrown off somewhat due to technical changes. Should be return to regular blogging now.:) Yesterday, Cliff Mass mentioned the possibility of snow next weekend and tall_monty mentioned in comments in the post below it was in the forecast models as well. Long range (greater than a week)…
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Official January Observations Are In
This just in, I’ve been handed the official record of weekday weather observations in January for Port Alberni. From left to right you have: Cloudy, partly cloudy, rain, snow, thunderstorm, wind, and finally sun. This is a weekly task in my daughters’ Grade 2 class at Alberni Elementary. 🙂 Definitely looks like the clouds had…