(Temps are in °C)
Current conditions (6:30AM):
Air Temp: +1.9
Conditions: overcast
Wind: brisk Easterly
Relative Humidity: 66%
Windchill: -0.2
Min / max over the past 24 hours, as recorded on my station:
High: +1.9
Low: -6.9
Yesterday was clear and cool and very quiet weatherwise. The evening saw
little change in conditions until come clouds began to move in late in the
evening.
Today will be a different story.A significant amount of rain is on the way
along with very strong winds.Some snow and ice pellets are also a good
possibility.A stormy day,to say the least.
Today's Forecast: Wind warning in effect
Rainfall warning in effect.
Today..Cloudy. Snow mixed with ice pellets beginning early this
morning then changing to rain this afternoon. Rain along parts of
the coast this morning and early this afternoon. Snow and ice pellet
amount 2 to 4 cm except locally rainfall amount 15 mm along parts of
the coast. Local blowing snow inland this afternoon. Wind east
20 km/h gusting to 40 increasing to 50 gusting to 80 except gusting
to 100 along parts of the coast this afternoon. High plus 5 except
plus 1 inland.
Tonight..Rain ending overnight then cloudy with 40 percent chance of
showers. Amount 10 to 20 mm. Wind east 50 km/h gusting to 80 except
gusting to 100 along parts of the coast this evening and after
midnight. Wind becoming south 20 overnight. Temperature rising to 8
by morning.
Friday..Cloudy. 40 percent chance of rain showers in the morning and
early in the afternoon then 40 percent chance of flurries late in
the afternoon and in the evening. Wind south 20 km/h becoming
northwest 40 gusting to 60 late in the morning. Temperature falling
to plus 2 in the afternoon.
Marine Forecast: Gale warning in effect.
Wind east 15 to 20 knots increasing to east 20 to 25 early this
morning and to east 25 to 35 late this morning. Wind increasing to
east 40 to 45 late this afternoon then diminishing to south 15 near
midnight. Wind veering to southwest 20 Friday morning then
diminishing to southwest 15 near noon Friday. Wind increasing to
west 25 to 30 Friday afternoon. Rain today and this evening. A few
showers overnight and Friday. Fog patches forming near midnight and
dissipating Friday morning. Visibility 1 mile or less in rain and in
fog patches.
Today's weather trivia: 27 December
1969: In 1931 the cargo ship S.S. Baychimo was trapped in ice in the
Beaufort Sea. The abandoned ship later became free and drifted through
blankets of fog and several storms in the western Arctic Ocean, for at least
38 years. Explorers, scientists, and Inuit reported many sightings. In 1969
some Inuit made the last sighting of "the ghost ship of the Arctic" between
Point Barrow and Icy Cape, Alaska.
Excerpt from 'The Canadian Weather Trivia Calendar' by David Phillips. ©
Environment Canada
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