Thanksgiving week has arrived, and many will be traveling during the Wednesday-Sunday time frame. Outside of a little light rain early Wednesday, conditions will be favorable for the highway. There will be some areas of fog in the valleys and a chance of icy spots in shady areas over the passes. Nothing impactful.
After a weak front goes through tonight and Wednesday, high pressure builds offshore, and we will have cool and dry weather through the Thanksgiving weekend. You will notice temperatures getting colder with northerly winds. Overnight lows in calm areas will be below freezing with frost. Locally in Vancouver we will see easterly winds coming down the Gorge, keeping fog at bay.
Highs will drop a little below normal to the upper 40s to around 50 degrees. Lows in the upper 20s and low 30s. Mostly sunny skies will shine for the holiday weekend. Our monthly rainfall stands at 4.55 inches with little additional for the month expected. We’ll see how much ends up in the rain gauge on Wednesday. Dry conditions exist into early next week, but another weak weather system may add a little moisture by month’s end.
The average mean temperature is running about 2 degrees above normal but with much cooler weather on the way we’ll be close to average by the weekend.
