The Relocation Coach » weather http://www.relocation2bc.com/blog advice, thoughts and information from those who've moved to British Columbia, Canada Fri, 30 Jul 2010 20:38:38 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Can you stand the rain? http://www.relocation2bc.com/blog/2009/11/can-you-stand-the-rain/ http://www.relocation2bc.com/blog/2009/11/can-you-stand-the-rain/#comments Thu, 19 Nov 2009 22:31:07 +0000 Frank http://www.relocation2bc.com/blog/?p=571 Someone (Neal) emailed me recently and asked me to write about the rain. He said this was the elephant in the room. The topic that we don’t talk about, but is on our mind anyway.

By chance Neal’s email was well timed, arriving just before a major winter storm. As I write this [...]]]> http://www.relocation2bc.com/blog/2009/11/can-you-stand-the-rain/feed/ 1 More snow http://www.relocation2bc.com/blog/2009/01/more-snow/ http://www.relocation2bc.com/blog/2009/01/more-snow/#comments Tue, 27 Jan 2009 21:55:36 +0000 Frank http://www.relocation2bc.com/blog/?p=169 Vancouver woke up to snow again. Like pretty much everyone else I was not thrilled by this. OK, the forecast was for a small amount of snow, and for it to disappear pretty quickly, but our recent snowbound experience means snow means inconvenience and shovelling.

Even with 5-10cm predicted, I took the precaution of parking my [...]]]> http://www.relocation2bc.com/blog/2009/01/more-snow/feed/ 0 Fog and temperature inversions http://www.relocation2bc.com/blog/2009/01/fog-and-temperature-inversions/ http://www.relocation2bc.com/blog/2009/01/fog-and-temperature-inversions/#comments Fri, 23 Jan 2009 00:22:29 +0000 Frank http://www.relocation2bc.com/blog/?p=150 Looking down on the fog in Vancouver

I may turn this into a weather blog the way things are going. Here in Vancouver we have had snow, rain, floods and now fog. Without getting too (or even at all) technical I can say that the cold weather at sea level and the warmer weather above [...]]]> http://www.relocation2bc.com/blog/2009/01/fog-and-temperature-inversions/feed/ 0 Snow http://www.relocation2bc.com/blog/2009/01/snow/ http://www.relocation2bc.com/blog/2009/01/snow/#comments Thu, 08 Jan 2009 18:17:04 +0000 Frank http://www.relocation2bc.com/blog/?p=145 Tip: don't let the snow build up!

We have learned just how ill prepared we are when it comes to real snow. Vancouver had 89cm of snow in December. To put this in perspective this is more than five times the December average (16cm) and is double the annual average for Vancouver.

Vancouver has blown its [...]]]> http://www.relocation2bc.com/blog/2009/01/snow/feed/ 0