February 2023 Forecasts And Discussions

[Rubus_Leucodermis]

Simply insane gradients across the metro area this morning. A friend who lives on a boat in Richmond reports only 3 cm.

Felt a little silly forecasting 15 cm at YVR yet 24 cm IMBY yesterday morning but model guidance was hinting that proximity to water and low elevation was really going to hurt their totals with this one. Turns out models (and I) underestimated just how much.

[Lisa0527]

Somewhere between 12 and 15 cm here. Sun is out, wind is blowing, and huge chunks of snow/snow bombs are falling from the trees. Almost dangerous. Will wait a bit before heading out to shovel.

[Pomoman]

I’ll go with 34cm as my measurement too. Starting to compact so maybe it was 35cm who knows. Snow finally stopped and sun is poking out behind the fog. Icicles just starting to drip slowly so must have just popped above 0.0.
Elevation sounded like it made a 5-8 cm difference by the sounds of it, locally speaking.

[wetcoast91]

22cm. Sun comes out and the melt is on!!

[Wintergirl]

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Send help haha! Haven't measured yet, need to get the trucks out of driveway first!

[Pomoman]

More coming ? Yes please !

[Radar]

23.7 on that fall. Almost to 100. 6cm more.

[PortKells]

More coming ? Yes please !

Good trends for Tuesday on the gem!

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[wetcoast91]

More coming ? Yes please !

NOOOOOO MAKE IT STOP!!!! IM IN MY PARENTS BASEMENT AND NEED SUN!!!!

[Hawk]

Aaaaaand the one who went into high weenie mode about this one being a sure bust is the one who scores really big. Classic!

Who's that?

[Pomoman]

Surprises to see ice on the inlet. Or rather I am surprised to see it so obvious when we’ve had much longer and colder spells and don’t recall noticing.

[Radar]

Good trends for Tuesday on the gem!

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Too localized and variable. Not gonna happen

[Radar]

Surprises to see ice on the inlet. Or rather I am surprised to see it so obvious when we’ve had much longer and colder spells and don’t recall noticing.

Too warm for ice. Must be snow collection. Can’t believe it would be ice as it has to be below -7 for that.

[VanCitySouth]

Just measured 25 cm. Feels like it was probably more before compaction, it's concrete out there. 6 more cm to 100

They say a cubic metre of snow weighs between 50 and 200 kg (fresh vs compact).

I moved about 18 cubic metres of snow this morning by a rough calculation:
0.6m wide x 0.15m deep on average x 200 metres (my corner lot and my senior neighbour's side street)

That means I moved between 900kg and 3.6 metric tonnes of snow this morning, probably leaning more on the high side due to the compactness of this snow! And so did a lot of you!

[Rubus_Leucodermis]

Surprises to see ice on the inlet. Or rather I am surprised to see it so obvious when we’ve had much longer and colder spells and don’t recall noticing.

My guess would be that it is just slush from snow which fell last night into a layer of fresh water that is floating atop the denser salt water.