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A Sunny Day

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We had sun! A very lovely, crisp day.

Despite the poor weather, we still have some leaves left, even if they are a bit bedraggled.

I was quick to get out and enjoy it since we are about to get yet another wet system coming through.

A favourite walking path. Still beautiful.

It’s being referred to as a “cyclone bomb” (really? who comes up with these names?), which is a low pressure system with a very tight pattern. This means that the pressure towards the centre of it is much lower than at its outer edges.

The snow is in the mountains where it should be.

Essentially, it’s a sort of hurricane (Pacific hurricanes are called cyclones), but because it’s occurring at a cooler time of year, it’s a slow, lumbering storm that’s more prone to dissipation and of course, it’s much less dangerous than the tropical versions. Nevertheless, it will bring very strong winds and buckets of rain to coastal British Columbia; Vancouver and Vancouver Island are about to get another soaking.

I’m enjoying these remaining leaves as much as possible!

Here in the interior we are expected to get some of it in the form of more overcast and rain; we won’t experience the brunt of it.

A lovely lake view.

It was important to get out and enjoy a bit of sun before more overcast arrives, but even clouds have their beauties and I can always dress for the watery deliveries they make!

Happy Tuesday.

34 thoughts on “A Sunny Day”

  3. Lynette, sounds like you made the most of the sunny weather and the photos are beautiful! Thanks for explain the ‘cyclone bomb’ – at last it makes sense but I also do wonder when the meteorologists started using all these dramatic terms. We are in the midst of heavy rain(for us down south) and snow for northern England! Sun later in the week so I’ll be out there! 😀

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    1. Hi Annika, thank you very much. 😊We can get a lot of very dense overcast here in our valley during winter. It tends to sink in and get comfortable for the duration, so it’s important to enjoy the sun when we can (or go into the mountains to get above it).
      I think that the dramatic weather terms are a way of getting media attention, something that is becoming quite a problem, I think. As a pilot I am well educated about weather and am very familiar with meteorological terminology, and “cyclone bomb” isn’t one of them. Stay dry, Annika and I hope you enjoy your good weather when it arrives. Cheers.

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  4. At this time of year it is important to make the most of those sunny days. The snowy mountains look very pretty and the best place for snow. Here after one snowfall around 200 schools are closed. When I was growing up I don’t remember a single day that schools closed, despite days of snowy weather.

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    1. I agree, Jude. The good days start becoming so rare. I love seeing the snow in the mountains but I’m happy it’s there and not here!
      That’s so funny about the schools. I don’t remember ever losing school days because of weather either but it seems to have become much more common. When I worked in the north I found it rather ironic that subarctic and arctic schools stayed open through terrible weather while the more southern schools closed in face of a few flakes!

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    1. Thank you very much, Tricia. 😊 That footpath is always beautiful, regardless of weather or season. “Cyclone bomb” is such a silly name and sounds like it should be part of Star Wars: “release the cyclone bombs!” or something like that! 😉

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  6. The pictures here are such a treat 🤩 especially the autumn leaves picture 🤩
    This is my first time learning about a cyclone bomb. It definitely sounds misleading .

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    1. Thank you very much, Keerthi. 😊 We have had a very lovely autumn but it’s coming to an end now. I agree that “cyclone bomb” is misleading, designed to be dramatic and to draw media attention, I think.

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  7. Vancouver Island is bracing for the bomb cyclone, but not sure how much will make it to the Lower Mainland. Certainly in for wet weather. Surprise? Nope. Happy Tuesday Lynette. Allan

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    1. I think you’re supposed to get a rain/snow mixture with the wind picking up significantly this afternoon and into the evening. At a minimum you’re going to get soaked for the next two or three days. Yes, pretty usual November weather for Vancouver! Stay dry, Allan. 😉

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  8. Wow, such beautiful photos, Lynette! The snow looks beautiful atop the mountain where it indeed does belong. I am watching The Weather Channel this morning, you are going to get slammed by this one! Be safe, stay warm. ❤️🇨🇦

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    1. Thank you very much, John. 😊 Yes, I’m happy to see the snow in the mountains as long as it stays there! I’m not on the coast (I’m in the interior with two mountain ranges between us and the coast) so we won’t get the wallop that the coast is going to get although we’re definitely going to be getting some wind, rain and overcast. Cheers.

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  9. Sun? What’s that? I love to see the snow on the hilltops. Sometimes the wind blows the clouds away enough so we can see it. The odd time the sun comes out for a few hours, everyone goes ballistic with joy.

    Love those photos!

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    1. I understand! One advantage of the NWT was that even though it was cold and the daylight hours were short, it was usually sunny, especially as we descended into the very cold. We can get so very socked in here that yes, a sunny day is to be pounced on and enjoyed as much as possible!

      Thank you very much. 😊

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  10. Sounds like Anneli is in for a soaking. Enjoy those last moments. We have a cold front arriving. Rain last night. Windy today. Cold tomorrow. The wind is stealing away the last of our leaves. 😕

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    1. Hi Lori, yes, I think she likely will be getting soaked for a couple of days. We’re inland and are apparently going to be getting a lot of rain, too but nothing like the coast. That means lots of snow in the mountain passes so we won’t be driving too far, either. I don’t mind. I’m enjoying reading in a comfy chair next to a fire. I hope you’re warm and cozy with your pooch away from that wet, windy weather. 😊 Cheers.

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  11. Somewhere between drought and flooding is good. Rain later this week in New England, I hope; I am a bit concerned about the possibility that my well will go dry, so am being very conservative with water use.

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    1. Agreed – somewhere in there is the middle ground! I hope you get some rain. We have had a serious drought here for the last couple of years, but this wet autumn has gone a long way to mitigating that, thankfully. I hope you soon get rain. If I could I would send you some of ours. Cheers.

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  13. Glad you managed to get out to enjoy the fresh air and lingering leaves before the storm hits. I couldn’t help but laugh at how they’re calling it a bomb cyclone too. The name just sounds so dramatic. I was reading on the news about it this morning and see there’s a bunch of people without power already.

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    1. We really didn’t get much of that storm at all, just rain and overcast. Certainly nothing like the coast, especially not those high winds that have caused the power outages.

      I did a bit of a search on that term and discovered that “bombus” is a specific meteorological term used to describe an intense weather system but I’m thinking “cyclone bomb” is a term that the media has invented. I think they should be more responsible as this term has unnecessarily scared a lot of people. Ugh.

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