Snow tonight?

Well that "clipper" we were talking about yesterday is continuing to "clip" across Ontario. I'm going to refer to this storm as a clipper even though, unlike most clippers, it's dropping a decent amount of precipitation. Before hitting Northwestern Ontario with snow today, this storm dumped 10-15cm on Southern Manitoba. Residents of Winnipeg woke up to a "winter wonderland" this morning. Well now this storm is moving through Ontario...so are we going to see any snow?

Some mixed precipitation is possible tonight (maybe some wet snow just north of the city) but we'll likely just see rain tonight as the temperature will be too mild. As you can see in the image above, the latest ADONIS model has the rain/snow line well north of the city. I think the best bet for snow this evening (in our viewing region) would be in Haliburton.

Windy & Wet

Last night’s soaker was indeed a soaker. Luckily that area of low pressure that brought the rain moved over our region like a bullet. By 10am this morning the rain had mostly tapered off and rainfall totals for our region (with the exception of Oshawa) was on the low end of yesterday’s forecasted values…

• Peterborough (Airport) - 21.7mm
• Peterborough (Downtown Post Office) - 20mm
• Bancroft - 19.3mm*
• Oshawa - 35.4mm

While 20mm here in Peterborough is a lot of rain, Oshawa nearly doubled that. Both of these totals were nothing compared to the rain Kingston saw (my old CKWS TV stomping grounds). K-Town was the clear “winner” with 53.7mm as of 9am this morning when Environment Canada issued a special weather statement with that total. Now that the rain has cleared (yay) it is wind that will be a problem (boo). Gusts in excess of 55km/h have already been recorded at the airport and the wind will continue to shift to a more northwesterly component which will cool things down. Wind was responsible for affecting the Otonabee Transmission Station leaving over 1000 customers without power this afternoon. Power has now been restored (for now) but more outages are possible as high winds continue affect our region this evening.

*Bancroft total as of 9am...rain was still falling there much later.

Movember Update

I think we’ll make this a Monday tradition. Every Monday I’ll give “the ladies” a reason to check out my Weather Blog and today that reason is Tom Selleck. Selleck’s “mo” defined what it meant to be a good looking guy in the 80’s and is a true inspiration for Movember supporters like myself. If only my “stache” looked anywhere close to that. I thought I’d throw up another blog on the “mo” to say thanks to everyone that has made a contribution.

• Mary Reynolds - $25.00
• Donna Sally - $20.00
• Murray Barton - $25.00
• Brian Lainey - $5.00
• Bob &Patti (Bydandacres Kennels) - $100.00
• Bill Brueschy - $50.00
• Beth Smith - $25.00

THANK YOU to everyone that has donated thus far! All of the money raised will help support Prostrate Cancer research so please keep the donations coming in. If you’d like to help out, click here to donate to my Mo-Space page with a valid credit card. You can also drop off a cash donation at our studios (743 Monaghan Rd) during regular business hours. Thanks again and check back next Monday for a list of the latest donors and another “drool worthy” moustache picture.