Tag: Cold

  • UPDATE 9PM Monday – SNOWFALL AND WINTER STORM WARNINGS ISSUED

    UPDATE 9PM Monday – SNOWFALL AND WINTER STORM WARNINGS ISSUED

    Warnings Issued This afternoon Environment Canada issued The Snowfall Warnings are for anywhere from 10-20cm. The Wind Storm Warnings add strong Winds over 50kph on the northern parts of the East side of the Island but realistically we can expect some wind in all areas. In short: There is a good chance we will have…

  • Chilly – Poor Air Quality – Until Sunday

    Chilly – Poor Air Quality – Until Sunday

    Expect an Inversion It’s fall, and while we haven’t had the rain we normally get in November, we are now getting into inversion conditions with cold air being trapped in local Valleys like ours, and warmer air up in the hills. You can expect poor Air Quality to accompany the inversion. If you can avoid…

  • Snowy to the East and South – Cold Everywhere

    Snowy to the East and South – Cold Everywhere

    Morning Flurries There were patches of flurries happening all the way from Parksville to Nanaimo this morning. There was snow on the ground in Coombs and Errington, but neither of these were true in Port Alberni (except perhaps deeper Beaver Creek/Beaufort) It has continued to flurry off and on for the past few hours here…

  • Snow or no?

    Snow or no?

    Check out the October Summary Don’t miss the October 2022 Summary post and the 20 records set last month in Port Alberni! Chance of Snow Saturday Night – early Sunday especially the Hump and Sutton? The moisture will move onto the Island tonight. You can see the model predicting rain (greys/blacks) in the low areas…

  • Small Atmospheric River Thursday then Sunday Snow?!

    Small Atmospheric River Thursday then Sunday Snow?!

    Learning something new – AR Scale Last week I learned about a new-to-me scale used to classify Atmospheric River events. Here’s the chart! It’s a pretty cool, and detailed, chart. It uses the “Maximum Vertically Integrated Water Vapour Transport” and the length of an event to come up with a category from 1 being beneficial…