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Saturday, February 22, 2014

System from the northwest

We should see 3-5cm of light snow this morning as a small system descends from the northwest through the day. The system will mainly affect Vancouver Island. A cool northwest flow has developed and will stay around until early next week. Sunday is a bit of a unsettled day with clouds, and light flurries.  The flow then swings back to southerly Monday night with some warmer air, and possibly a bunch of small systems make there way towards us bringing light precip with freezing levels climbing towards 1600m Wednesday morning. The jetstream next week is well to the south bringing California some much needed precip. It will probably leave us with drier conditions next week.



Alpine Forecast
Saturday: Freezing level at valley bottom, flurries and a possible 5-10cm in the forecast, ridge top winds from the north @ 25 Km/h.
Sunday: Freezing level at valley bottom, flurries and a trace of precipitation in the forecast, light ridge top winds from the north.
Monday: Freezing level at valley bottom, flurries and a possible 5cm in the forecast, light ridge top winds from the north.

Alpine this morning

Horstman hut        -14, Winds were 10-15 KPH from the S
Peak                     -12, Winds were 10-20KPH from the SSE
Pig Alley                -9, 1cm new snow, Base 219 cm
Catskinner             -9, 1cm of new snow, Base 168cm


Special Avalanche warning this weekend

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Valley Current Conditions

Temperature: -5.5 °C
Sea Level Pressure: 102.1 kPa / falling
Dew Point: -6.8 °C
Relative Humidity: 91%
Visibility: 19.3 km

Forecast

Today
Periods of snow.
Amount 2 to 4 cm. 
High: -1 °C
Tonight
Cloudy with 60 percent chance of flurries. Low: -4 °C
Sunday
Cloudy with 60 percent chance of flurries. High: -2 °C
Monday
A mix of sun and cloud. Low: -6 °C
High: 1 °C
Tuesday
A mix of sun and cloud. Low: -6 °C
High: 2 °C
Wednesday
A mix of sun and cloud. Low: -8 °C
High: 3 °C
Thursday
Cloudy with 30 percent chance of showers. Low: -2 °C
High: 5 °C
Friday
Cloudy with 30 percent chance of flurries or rain showers. Low: -1 °C
High: 7 °C

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