Tag: Cold
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Watch for Flash Freezing – SNOW DAY – Schools Closed SD70-NIC-VIU
Warmer than expected Morning – But Watch for Ice! Woke up this morning to hear the SE wind blowing and the temperature popped up to 3ºC overnight. We got 23cm (9″) by 9PM last night. The Airport officially got 24cm, I’ve seen reports of up to 28cm around Port Alberni. Some of that will have…
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Snow on the Ground – Wind Blowing – Winter Storm on the Way
Started a little early The snow seemed to get off to a bit of an early start this morning. There was already a bit of snow on the ground when I got up. By 9AM there was about 1cm and light snow in Port Alberni. It was similar elsewhere on the Island with some seeing…
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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…
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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…
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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…