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Weather Eye: Mostly dry conditions likely ahead for holiday week

By Patrick Timm, Columbian freelance columnist
Published: November 26, 2024, 6:00am

We are almost there for the big day on Thursday and hopefully a great feast and a friend and family gathering for everyone. The weather looks hopeful for traveling on Wednesday with forecasted dry weather so other than a few icy or snowy patches over the mountains it should be fine. Traveling north, south and west should also be fine.

I see no big storms bringing rain and wind or lowland snow either. In fact, the mountains should enjoy some fair weather as well with good skiing conditions. Looking forward to the long week including return trips on Sunday, it appears fair weather will abound.

Looking at the weather charts on Monday, I can’t rule out a shower today and with clearing skies and all the dampness on the ground, locally I expect some fog this week which at this time of the year can be slow to burn off. So I would say a mixed probability of fog, scattered clouds and some blue skies and hazy sunshine. Some locations may have frost if skies remain clear overnight.

Basically, we will be in the doldrums as that huge trough of low pressure that was with us all last week into Monday will finally be wandering to the south and east of us. If high pressure builds strong enough, we could have a week or more of dry weather. Some models say hold on, weak weather disturbances to our north may drag across with clouds and maybe a shower. So, I cannot give you a totally thumbs-up fair weather forecast as I write this Monday afternoon.

Regardless, it will be a much quieter weather regime for certain. Highs will be on the cool side, trying to reach the normal of 50 degrees. I expect most days to hover in the 40s. The ski resorts will be in operation for the Thanksgiving holiday so busy activity in the mountains.

As of Monday afternoon, Vancouver had 6.59 inches in the rain gauge, which is the most since 2016 when we ended the month with 6.88 inches. The heaviest November rainfall here was 13.34 inches in 2006, over double what we have so far.

We’ll chat on Thanksgiving.

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