It’s almost Spring, time for Snow!

So you might have noticed in the forecast for next week there is mention of the whitestuff!

Mark Madryga was mentioning it on his forecast Thursday morning as well and he seemed quite adamant that “higher elevations” could receive a bit of snow on Monday.

What do you think? Are we in for a big dump! Is this going to be our Snowmageaddon? Are we going to give up our record warm January and February and have a Decembery-March?

Can this winter get any more abnormal?

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16 responses to “It’s almost Spring, time for Snow!”

  1. Tazz Avatar

    How about a good wind with that snow….really shake things up!

  2. Chris (admin) Avatar

    Ha. Well that doesn’t look like it’s in the cards right now. But that certainly would make it more snowmageaddon like! 🙂

    To be honest though, snow in March or even April isn’t that unusual. But the past 2 months have been just so warm, it’s weird that now we’re getting the possibility of snow!

  3. Bill Avatar
    Bill

    According EC records, the record snowfall for March was March 1 ’71, with 41.1 cm! On April 8 ’72 5.8 cm fell. Do you think we can beat those?

  4. Nick Avatar

    All this fun stuff possibly coming, and the only enhancements I can’t generate on a narrow bandwidth receiver are the precip ones. DOH! The MSA ones are coming in nicely, and the MCIR are a work in progress.

  5. Chris (admin) Avatar

    -3 and -4 on Monday and Tuesday.. that’s about as cold as we’ve been any time this winter!

    Snow Snow Snow 😀

  6. Nick Avatar

    I’ll turn on the thermal images and see what it generates.

  7. Kari Avatar
    Kari

    you mean I might actually get to use the quad and plow I bought just to keep my driveway clear this year??? yeesh – I went two years in a row with no driveway due to the snow, and now I’m looking forward to it!

  8. Chris (admin) Avatar

    Eww it sure doesn’t look very nice out there. The temperature is dropping, the windchill is below freezing and it’s pouring! Yuk!

  9. Theresa Avatar
    Theresa

    It’s snowing nicely at Burde Hill right now 5:30pm. The grass is white, like my knuckles all the way from Nanaimo, when I first saw the sleet at 4:00.

  10. Nick Avatar

    Ahh yes, only in Port Alberni… will you find sunshine one day, snow the next, and then back to sunshine.

  11. Eve Avatar
    Eve

    Gorgeous Day!

  12. Nick Avatar

    I see they are calling for up to 2cm of snow tonight…

  13. Chris (admin) Avatar

    My wife says there is snow falling in port?

  14. Mike Avatar

    WE even got it out here on the coast. Last report I had was the dandruff had blades of grass poking through. Might be an interesting drive to work tomorrow.

  15. Nick Avatar

    Oh my.. thats a doozy swirling out there off the Queen Charolettes.. my computer hasn’t even rendered the image yet and I am already in awe how “pretty” it is..

  16. Chris (admin) Avatar

    That is a doozy indeed!

    I was noticing a couple days ago on a north-west hemisphere SST anomaly map there was a chunk of overly warm water off our shores…

    I was watching satellite images over the past few days and was noticing the moisture really picking up from where that warm water was.

    One wonders if that’s contributing to the strength of that low pressure centre up there.