Category: General
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UPDATED 10PM WEDNESDAY — WINTER STORM WARNING
ECCC issues Winter Storm Warning I am not surprised that they have issued this for the storm on Thursday afternoon. I will have a blog Thursday morning but the main points of the warning are as I mentioned in my podcast. Significant snow 10-15cm and “an extended period of freezing rain” from Thursday night into…
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System Incoming – Heavy Snow Possible Tonight, Wednesday and Thursday Messy Mix
Radar and Satellite showing system(s) If you head over to the Satellites page you’ll find links to the updated Satellite and Radar pictures. They’ll be good ones to watch over the next 48 hours as these two events unfold. Here’s the picture as of now (5:24PM PST) as moisture starts to reach the Island. I…
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Watching for snow Tuesday Night
Data View Offline An issue cropped up with the Data View overnight. That is why there is a large empty space in the website. The other data on the Almanac is still updating normally. I’ll post on Mastodon with updates on when the Data View will return. Snow Tuesday Night and Wednesday – Heaviest South…
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Coldest night so far – New Podcast up – Why this Arctic weather? And Snow Wednesday and Thursday morning
Brrr! It was the coldest night so far. We set a record at the Airport since 1994 of -11.5ºC but it was nowhere near the record. This day in 1950 we reached -21ºC in Port Alberni and -25ºC in Beaver Creek. Why is it so cold? A Podcast and Forecast I’ve made a podcast this…
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Frigid night but no record – Possible snow on the warmup Tuesday.
Record for January 12 was -15 It got plenty cold, and fast, yesterday but we didn’t set any records. As posted on Mastodon: Looks like we “peaked” today at a balmy temperature of -4.0ºC in #PortAlberni. Our low this morning was -8.7ºC. The lowest windchill recorded was -14.1. The official low at the Airport was…