So here we are the 26th of August. Still a month before the official start of Fall and we're talking about the chance of Snow tonight/tomorrow morning in Labrador City. It's looking more like early tomorrow morning is you're best chance to see the flurries falling. Your temperature will be right around 4 degrees at the surface and much cooler aloft with a strong Northerly wind.

As I mentioned here on the blog yesterday, according to EC's records, from 1971-2000 the average August snowfall is 0.1 cm's. So I've been looking a little closer at the history records this morning and here's what I discovered.

-According to EC's records it hasn't snowed (a trace or more) in Labrador City in August since 1988! That's 21 years.
-As I mentioned yesterday, the record August snowfall in that time period is 1 cm, which fell on August 30th 1986.
-The 70's and 80's were a pretty chilly time, it snowed in August 8 years out of 20.

Here's a look at some of the numbers.

August 20th 1988- Trace

August 30th 1986- 1 cm
August 28th 1986- Trace

August 28th 1982- 0.6 cm
August 18th 1982- Trace

August 31st 1979- Trace

August 26th 1978- Trace
August 23rd 1978- Trace

August 31st 1976- Trace
August 30th 1976- Trace
August 31st 1976- Trace

August 30th 1972- Trace

August 24th 1971- Trace

Again, if the Snow is falling tomorrow morning, snap a few pics and send them my way. I would love to see them. ryan.snoddon@cbc.ca

SAY HI TO DANNY

The National Hurricane Centre has finally upgraded that cluster of storms to Tropical Storm Danny. There is a lot of uncertainty with Danny at this point. The forecast models can't seem to decide how strong he will get.... or where exactly he will track.

The Canadian forecast model and the NAM model are both forecasting Danny to hit the Carolinas on Friday night. Where as the GFS and European are keeping him off the Coast. Most of the models are bringing Danny, or the remnants of Danny into our Province late on Sunday or Monday morning. However, again the intensity of the storm seems to be different with every model.

It looks like it's going to take about 36 hours before Danny makes his way into waters and upper level winds which are more favorable for development. On Friday he should really strengthen up, however whether he becomes a Hurricane or not still remains to be seen. Here's the latest National Hurricane Centre forecast run and spaghetti model plot.

As always, I'll keep you posted.

Ryan