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Back-to-Back Pacific Storms to Impact the West Coast; Heavy Snow in the Central Appalachians

Back-to-back powerful Pacific storm systems to impact the Pacific Northwest and northern California through the end of this week with heavy rain, flooding, strong winds, and higher elevation mountain snow. A strong, long-duration atmospheric river will accompany the Pacific storms, bringing excessive rainfall and flash flooding to southwest Oregon and northwest California through the week. Read More >

Focusing first on Thursday's weather, by far the best news for most folks is that it will NOT BE AS WINDY, although it will still be a little breezy with gusts as high as 15-25 MPH at times. Temperature-wise, it will be a seasonably-chilly start to the day with early morning wind chill readings down into the teens. Afternoon high temperatures will be pretty typical for late-November, with most of our 30-county coverage area topping out between 42-52°...coolest north/east of the Tri Cities (places such as Fullerton/Osceola), and warmest south/west of the Tri Cities (places such as Arapahoe/Phillipsburg). Peeking ahead into the first half of next week (Mon-Wed), chillier high temps in the 30s-40s are currently expected, and there might be a little bit of rain and/or snow around too especially by Tues-Wed. However, there does not appear to be any major wintry precipitation at this point. For those curious about the forecast for Thanksgiving Day, stay tuned as that time frame is still JUST BEYOND the scope of our official 7-day forecast.