ShawniganLake

6 hours ago, iFred said:

Looks like I’ll get that early season melt off after all. I figure once all the forests burn down; then we won’t have to contend with a smoke season anymore.

Sounds promising for Mark Nelsens hiking trip.  

39/32 today with light flurries and graupel showers through mid afternoon.  

Steady light snow here the past 3 hours or so. Just too light to accumulate especially with temps in the mid 30s

-17F near our summer cabin up at Watch Lake BC.  Melt out is only about 2 months away now. 

30 minutes ago, MossMan said:

And nobody here made a single mention of it last night?? 

Asleep at the wheel.   First flurry rolled through here around 6pm last night. They’ve just been too light to amount to much.   Tuesday nights are my night out of the house so I usually don’t post much on Tuesdays unless it’s significant.  
 

yesterday afternoons 18z euro and Rgem clearly saw the precip up north.  Generally less than 0.1” though. 
 

Just now, snow_wizard said:

Sure didn't see that coming.  Pretty solid cloud shield on the sat pic right now.  This could end up being a really cold day if it's cloudy.

Mets had been calling for flurries here lasting through late morning.  Looking back at last night’s mesoscale models most of them had some precip across southern Vancouver island and the north sound. 

26 minutes ago, TT-SEA said:

Genuinely snowing in Oak Harbor.

Things look pretty wet on the webcams down in Victoria. Sounds like it was snowing this morning but not sticking. 

17 minutes ago, MossMan said:

Moving at a snails pace! Wonder if it will get to me? I was mad when I looked out and saw scud clouds and a temp at 30.9 degrees since when I went to bed last night it was 28. Hit 27.7 after midnight before the clouds apparently rolled in. But if I can get a dusting out of it I would be cool with it! 

It was cloudy all night here so it never went below freezing.  Just above freezing but cold enough for the snow flurries to stick. 

5 minutes ago, Chewbacca Defense said:

It’s adding to my snow total.  I think I’m up to about 9.5001” now!

Similar here.  A dusting of graupelly looking stuff

Also, Tiger, Victoria YYJ did not record any measurable snow during this “cold snap,” so you likely outperformed that area.  

6 minutes ago, Phishy Wx said:

introduce a predator

2 minutes ago, TigerWoodsLibido said:

What are sill plates? Are they next to the windows?

If you can identify where they are coming and going from the house,  you can spread dried coffee grounds in those areas. For some reason they won’t cross it.  We do this around our kitchen window occasionally in the summer.  But it sounds like a bigger problem, so probably gonna have to spray as Dewey mentioned.  

29 minutes ago, TigerWoodsLibido said:

Anybody else not have anything last night? Springfield barely even had any brief snow in the air during this stretch.

Apart from a small portion of Vancouver island, no one in bc had snow last night. 

Just now, snow_wizard said:

This has some 1951 aspects to it.

Perhaps farther south.  It was 21/14 with 12” of snow at Abbotsford on this day in 1951.  There was a legitimate arctic airmass across the south coast of BC for most of the first 10 Days of March that year. 

42 minutes ago, snow_wizard said:

It dropped to -20 in Prince George this morning.  100% impressive.

Close to the record from 1951.  Too bad this worked out nothing like 1951 on the coast. 

Ended up with a coating of snow as the band rotated by to my south. 
 

33 minutes ago, ShawniganLake said:

This webcam is on the south Shawnigan Lake road.  We have nothing here at the north end.  That area was bare and wet 45 min ago

 

Sticking snow is still being driven by precip rates though.  It’s 35 and raining lightly here just to the north of this webcam. 

This webcam is on the south Shawnigan Lake road.  We have nothing here at the north end.  That area was bare and wet 45 min ago

Absolutely demonic snowfall rates happening just south of me.   I’d be more annoyed if it was still winter.  
 Heard reports the cells over southern Vancouver island dropped up to 1” of hail in parts of Langford earlier   That band turned to Snow as it lifted north  

3 minutes ago, Port Angeles Foothiller said:

Nah, just dippin dots

We just had a decent ice pellet shower with a few flakes at the end. No thunder though. 

20 minutes ago, Port Angeles Foothiller said:

Thunder.

Thunder snow?

10 minutes ago, TT-SEA said:

He failed to mention... significantly more that are warmer than the mean. 

Hmmm. Some warmer and some colder than the mean.  We will have to keep a close eye on that.   

Just 37F here with overcast skies.  Looking like this will easily be the coolest day of this stretch.  

I had some graupel just now too. It was amazing