Category: Cold

  • Difficult week to predict

    You may notice this post is tagged, cold, wet, wind, and storm. We could get it all. First, Monday: Today will stay cold and dry. The latest NAM and GFS model runs agree that there is more chance for snow on the East coast, (coming off the Strait) than there is for Port Alberni. But…

  • Nice weekend – next week looks interesting

    Don’t expect too much more snow over the weekend. There are chances through Monday of a little bit more but nothing more than what we got on Friday night. From Monday night onward though thing get progressively more interesting. It’s going to be quite cold, -5 or lower, and as the week goes there will…

  • Tonight’s Snow

    Here is a quick illustration of what the Rapid update cycle model from NOAA has for tonight. Temperature should be steady where it is now (around -1C) and so perfect conditions for snow. As you can see. Nothing major. We may not even get 5cm worth, it all depends how moist the front is, which…

  • It’s gonna Snow! Weeeee!

    I see Environment Canada has come fully on board with the snow forecast this morning! In fact I think, at least according to the charts I’m looking at, that they are going a little overboard. They are predicting 2-4cm of snow to fall tonight. On that I agree. However, they are also predicting snow to…

  • Snowy week ahead – starting slow.

    The models seem to be settling and coming into good agreement now that we are destined for whiteness starting perhaps as soon as Friday night and Satirday morning. One thing should be noted: don’t expect large snowfalls. There does not appear to be a big batch of moisture until Wednesday or Thursday next week. Saturday…