Happy Wednesday! We’re much calmer this morning with mainly dry weather on the radar. We do have some fog, mist and drizzle but that’s about it. We also have either some flurries or some very light rain for the mountain passes. We did pretty well in the mountains, with 5″ at White Pass, 6″ at Snoqualmie Pass and a foot at Stevens Pass. We won’t see much more today besides again some drizzle or flurries, but moisture will increase again tonight. Look for mostly cloudy skies with highs in the lower-50s.
Attention will turn to another modest weather system moving in Wednesday night through Thursday. While more formidable offshore, it will be weakening significantly as it moves inland, so while we have a forecast for rain at times in the lowlands Wednesday night and Thursday, the amounts won’t be all that heavy. Still, an annoyance for Thanksgiving Day travelers. The passes will be watched for any potential lingering cold air with easterly winds that could create some minor icing, mainly on untreated and less well-traveled surfaces. This would mean precipitation mainly falling as rain and falling on something at or below freezing and turning to ice or freezing rain.
Highs Thanksgiving will be around 50 in Seattle.
Precipitation should taper off into Friday morning with some late-day sunshine and, overall, a drier forecast through the weekend. Overnight and early-morning fog could be an issue over the weekend. Lowland highs will be in the 40s.
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