Tag: snow
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Snow Thursday – Then Concerning Melt + Rain + King Tide Christmas Eve and Christmas Atmospheric River.
Click Here for Latest Blog Covering Christmas 2022 Storm It’s COLD! How cold did your thermometer get this morning! Alberniweather got to 8.9ºC. The Airport got to -13.7ºC (likely a record for the day). Thursday start but mostly overnight. I wanted to wait until this morning’s run of the model was complete so that we…
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Winter Storm Warning Now – Maybe Thursday too.
Arctic Air Mass moved in Sunday afternoon. Note: Travel day recommendations at the bottom! We started cold Monday morning but those of you in tune with the weather might have noticed the cold wind that blew in around 3PM on Sunday afternoon. This was pretty clearly the arrival of the Arctic airmass over us! As…
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Stormy potentially messy Friday night – Calmer Sunday – How to use Mastodon
Rain or Wet Snow starting soon We will have a messy end to the week tonight as a frontal system moves onto Vancouver Island. The expectation is that this will be a high-elevation snow event only. However, beware that heavy rain rates can drag the temperature down and potentially create heavy, if short-lived, snowfall. The…
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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…