I hope you had a good Thanksgiving and had an opportunity to be with family and friends, which is always precious and wholesome. I wish we could have had clear blue skies and sunshine here locally, but it remained overcast and somewhat foggy all day. Vancouver had a high of only 43 degrees but many of you never made it out of the 30s. It felt like a gray mid-December day.
If you went up in elevation, some of our foothill locations had sunny weather all day — and overnight lows in the 20s. I expect that we will slowly develop some offshore wind, enough to stir the atmosphere and give us at least partly sunny skies over the weekend.
Extended weather forecast charts show dry weather to continue. Some models want to introduce some moisture by the end of next week but that is too far out to be certain at this time. Our November rainfall of 6.63 inches will be the final going into the record books for Vancouver, which is a little over an inch above average.
I read the other day that the expected increase in La Niña conditions, which has been slow to develop, may not be much of a factor in our weather this winter. It is quite weak now and it may slowly dissipate by January, and we go into what is called an ENSO neutral condition. Seems like we always have El Niño or La Niña to contend with each year. So, what can we expect in a so-called “normal” weather condition?
