 Feb. 4-5 Atlantic Canada Storm, Reality: Short Range (0-3 Days) Forecast |
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 Feb 4 2013, 11:09 AM
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Feb 4 2013, 11:13 AM
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Just as I posted that, Brett tweeted that the central pressure has dropped to 967mb. Guidance has progged the system to deepen to approximately 950-955mb as it tracks away from Atlantic Canada through tomorrow.
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Feb 4 2013, 11:33 AM
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Rank: Tornado Group: Member Posts: 403 Joined: 10-December 12 From: St Johns Member No.: 27,313 |
QUOTE(bigmt @ Feb 4 2013, 12:43 PM)  Just as I posted that, Brett tweeted that the central pressure has dropped to 967mb. Guidance has progged the system to deepen to approximately 950-955mb as it tracks away from Atlantic Canada through tomorrow. Looks like the worst of the rain will have moved through here in the next half hour, when that has happened this is when the strongest winds will follow for a period directly behind the rain bands? |
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Feb 4 2013, 12:09 PM
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QUOTE(newfiebrit @ Feb 4 2013, 11:33 AM) Looks like the worst of the rain will have moved through here in the next half hour, when that has happened this is when the strongest winds will follow for a period directly behind the rain bands? The storm should continue to intensify and hook to the NW, with strong south/southeasterly winds changing to southwesterly as the system pulls away. The winds will gradually, stubbornly abate through tomorrow. |
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Feb 4 2013, 01:31 PM
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Winds really picking up now the rain has changed to snow . and its getting pretty big
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Feb 4 2013, 02:26 PM
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Rank: Tornado Group: Member Posts: 403 Joined: 10-December 12 From: St Johns Member No.: 27,313 |
QUOTE(bigmt @ Feb 4 2013, 01:39 PM) The storm should continue to intensify and hook to the NW, with strong south/southeasterly winds changing to southwesterly as the system pulls away. The winds will gradually, stubbornly abate through tomorrow. I see, top gust 107kmh in St Johns as of 2:30pm, wind is still howling though doesn't seem quite as bad since the rain stopped, sounds worse when the rain is lashing against the windows. A couple of power outages though not around Metro or Avalon, hopefully stay that way. Just about all the weekend snow has gone now , chance of a few cm's overnight from flurries and squalls as the cold works it's way back in. |
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Feb 4 2013, 03:39 PM
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EC gave us a snow squall watch for tonight, 5-10cm, other areas a warning for 10-20cm, interesting seeing the radar later (bit of a bugger the Corner Brook one is non operational all day as that covers Central/Western NL)don't fancy anyone getting caught on the road in any squalls coming down with winds gusting over 100kmh.
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Feb 5 2013, 07:33 AM
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Rank: Tornado Group: Member Posts: 403 Joined: 10-December 12 From: St Johns Member No.: 27,313 |
Still blustery here though think well past the worst, totally different day though from yesterday minus 5 (-15 windchill though feels more like minus 50 facing the strong wind, eye watering stuff lol) with few snow squalls about, must of picked up a couple of cm's over night, looking good for a few more today.
A wild couple of days and the next week looks pretty active here, a snow event looks pretty sure for tomorrow now in the 10-20cm range, EC have issued a winter storm watch. And the weekend looks like something even bigger though the track key as always, few days before the models get that nailed down. Next week also seems to be throwing up more potential storms. This post has been edited by newfiebrit: Feb 5 2013, 07:33 AM |
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Feb 5 2013, 09:09 AM
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http://www.weatheroffice.gc.ca/warnings/SW..._e.html?prov=ns
QUOTE A low pressure system developed southwest of Nova Scotia on Sunday
and then intensified rapidly as it tracked northward passing just east of Cape Breton Monday morning. By Monday evening the very intense low was over Southeastern Labrador. On Sunday ahead of the low most of Nova Scotia experienced snow, rain, and freezing rain. The mixed precipitation changed to snow and local blowing snow on Monday. Also in the wake of the low very Strong westerly winds developed across many parts of the province. The following are some unofficial precipitation amounts and maximum wind observations as of 10:00 PM Monday 4 February 2013. Snowfall -------- Halifax ........................................ 20 cm Debert ......................................... 19 cm Cape George .................................... 15+ cm Sydney ......................................... 15 cm Ingonish Beach ................................. 15 cm Dartmouth ...................................... 14 cm New Ross ....................................... 12 cm Greenwood ...................................... 8 cm Rainfall -------- Ingonish Beach ................................. 41 mm Eskasoni ....................................... 37 mm Sydney ......................................... 26 mm Malay Falls .................................... 26 mm Dartmouth ...................................... 12 mm Wind ---- Grand Etang .................................... 96 km/h Brier Island ................................... 87 km/h Caribou Point .................................. 85 km/h Baccaro Point .................................. 83 km/h McNabs Island .................................. 80 km/h |
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Feb 5 2013, 09:36 AM
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It is near impossible to say what we ended up with for snow fall totals. Sunday night at about 10pm I plowed about 15cm of wet snow off of the driveway. Monday by noon about another 10cm, then last night a further 15cm.
I didn't think there was that much around due to drifting, but there are some nice drifts in spots, and bare fields in other places. The wind was the issue for sure. The reporting station at East Pt is all mesed up, as it didn't post wind speed above 13kph throughout the storm while every other site all around it were in the 60-80kph range. |
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Feb 5 2013, 01:39 PM
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Rank: Tornado Group: Member Posts: 403 Joined: 10-December 12 From: St Johns Member No.: 27,313 |
QUOTE(willyswagon @ Feb 5 2013, 11:06 AM) It is near impossible to say what we ended up with for snow fall totals. Sunday night at about 10pm I plowed about 15cm of wet snow off of the driveway. Monday by noon about another 10cm, then last night a further 15cm. I didn't think there was that much around due to drifting, but there are some nice drifts in spots, and bare fields in other places. The wind was the issue for sure. The reporting station at East Pt is all mesed up, as it didn't post wind speed above 13kph throughout the storm while every other site all around it were in the 60-80kph range. Always wonder how they measure totals when it's windy, sometimes its taken from just water equivalent? Though then ratios come into play. The weekend is shaping up for a sizeable snow storm for our regions, though never seems to take a great shift in track for it to go belly up so not worth getting excited about yet. |
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Feb 6 2013, 07:35 AM
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Rank: Tornado Group: Member Posts: 403 Joined: 10-December 12 From: St Johns Member No.: 27,313 |
Parts of Labrador got buried in snow from this, apparently the 2nd biggest ever single day fall on record in Happy Valley Goose Bay!
The following are unofficial total snowfall observations as of 6:30 AM NST Wednesday: Nain..................... 64 cm Goose Bay................ 52 cm Makkovik................. 35 cm Cartwright............... 28 cm Wabush lake.............. 19 cm |
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