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Forecast Discussion:
...and the quiet weather begins again. The current surface map (Figure 1) has a big high pressure system sitting over western Colorado. The large scale storminess is on the north west coast and east and northeast coast.
The Longer Range forecast:
The weather maps changes little by Monday with storms up in the northeast and northwest again (Figure 2). High pressure dominates Colorado. On Thanksgiving day, the troughs have moved little and the unsettled weather (light green ovals Figure 3) is still in the same places - the northeast and northwest coasts. How long can this pattern hold like this...? We'll see!
Thanksgiving Day forecast created Saturday: High 68F Low 43F with partly cloudy skies, light winds out of the west. Still as ideal as a Thanksgiving day could be here! (And there is no poor weather expected on the travel days on either side of the holiday either.)
