Category: Snow

  • February 2023 Summary and Winter 2022/23

    February 2023 Summary and Winter 2022/23

    Records were set!

  • “Spring” begins? Snow continues – California still the weather-bullseye.

    “Spring” begins? Snow continues – California still the weather-bullseye.

    It will continue to not feel like Spring It has been quite the end to February with all of the snow, treacherous driving, and uncertain forecasts. It doesn’t look like that is going to change. The long range forecasts out to next week continue to have us often around freezing and with moisture producing flurries…

  • Windy – Snowy – Saturday and Weekend

    Windy – Snowy – Saturday and Weekend

    Everybody Gets Some This Time The threat of strait-effect snow seems to have finally passed, but now it’s time for a more traditional snow system to makes it way to Vancouver Island! Starts overnight Friday Starting around 1AM Saturday morning, we can expect to see flurries moving down the Island with light winds. Snowy Saturday…

  • Environment Canada wins – Drive Safely on the East Island

    Environment Canada wins – Drive Safely on the East Island

    Update: Snowfall Warning Issued for Nanaimo/East Island Strait-Effect Snow is occurring. EC refers to it as “snow streamers off the Strait of Georgia”! 5-15cm is possible especially away a little further inland (Coombs, Errington, Jingle Pot, etc) https://weather.gc.ca/warnings/report_e.html?bc46 Treacherous Highway 19 and parts of Highway 4 A quick post to say be careful out there!…

  • One more snowy blast? Not seeing it…

    One more snowy blast? Not seeing it…

    Do you? Perhaps the model at UWash is totally out to lunch and wrong but it sure doesn’t see snow or even any precipitation at all after Tuesday. It has most of the moisture leaving the Island by 7PM tonight. There is a small pocket that appears in the very early hours of Thursday morning…