Calm Holiday

Thanksgiving week already.  Let’s get right to the outlook.   ☕️Mug is full.

In comparison with many Thanksgiving weeks, this one will be generally pleasant and calm across the West.  Some wx issues face those traveling to the east, as the first, large-scale blast of cold Canadian air drops across much of the eastern half of the Nation.  The PNW will slowly dry-down early this week, then present a calm holiday weekend for all.  Fog possible in the usual locations.

Post-Thanksgiving week - December 2 through Fri the 6th - looks dry, except for the far NW corner of WA & Vancouver Island, southern BC, where it will turn quite WET.  Moderate-to-heavy rainfall is charting for coastal BC & the Alaskan Panhandle.  Windy, too.  For the rest of the PNW, we can expect some showers over the Puget Sound region; generally dry elsewhere.

The weekend of Dec 7,8 trends dry early Sat, turning damp overnight as a weak cold front zooms past the region.  Afterward, it could be dry again for another few days.  Models have toyed with a cold wx outbreak, but that seems to be an outlier solution that some are grabbing onto.  A Yukon Dome of 1040 mb does develop during the next couple of weeks, but drifts in the normal pattern over the lower 48, east of the Rockies.  We always monitor closely.  We will provide an update on Black Friday.