Category: Cold

  • Finally! Some action on the weather front! Snow!

    Big change in the forecast this morning! We’ve gone from a slight chance of flurries over the next 5 days…. to a chance of flurries today… and Periods of Snow on the weekend! I will have to check who would be up for Snow Contest winner, but it certainly looks like a winner could be…

  • Cold Cold Cooold!

    Well, November has come and gone and so has the rain! We set a new record according to Environment Canada. Over 800mm of rain fell at Alberni Airport in November. We nearly set a daily record as well at around 110mm on the worst day but November 2006 still beat it out with 120mm. My…

  • An Unexpected Snowfall?

    Don’t you just get that feeling that it might just maybe just might might have a snowflake in the air? Nick and Eve asked in the comments of the last post if maybe there might be some snow tonight. I don’t know honestly! It sure is *close* to being cold enough, but we really haven’t…

  • Snow still in for Saturday Afternoon… then lots of rain

    So the snow is still in the forecast for this afternoon as cold air hangs above us. We’ll see if we actually get any. I’m not optimistic at this point, but you never know! Remember, it has to be “measurable” snow for the contest to be won, so it has to stick to the ground…

  • Still calling for Snow on Saturday

    That forecast certainly is persistent. They’ve been calling for “rain or snow” on Saturday for a few days now. And now that we’re into the 3 day timeframe and it’s still there… well… maybe it might just happen! I was checking out Ken Clarks Accuweather blog last night. The 2 systems that might give us…