Holiday weekend forecast, warm and wet

Thanksgiving is one week away.

From here, there's no sign of blizzards or other bad weather to make travelers tentative, said Cliff Harris, Coeur d'Alene climatologist.

In fact, Harris sees showers and temperatures about 10 degrees warmer than last year in the long holiday weekend forecast.

After an early winter storm in October, which broke decades-old records in consecutive hours below freezing and snowfall, the end of November is looking reasonably mild, Harris said Wednesday. With a series of fronts coming through the Coeur d’Alene area from the Pacific Ocean, Harris predicts a wave of warmer than average temperatures.

“Through the (holiday) weekend, it looks like the highs will be in the low- to mid-40s,” Harris said.

Lows will be in the mid-30s with a little bit of snow mixed into a rain pattern that is warmer than October, he said.

Last year, Thanksgiving weekend in Coeur d’Alene saw a high of 32 and a low of 23 degrees.

Warmer and wetter is the outlook for Thanksgiving 2020.

“I’m predicting showers on Thanksgiving, Nov. 26, and it just looks to me like a pattern where it’s going to be a mild weekend,” Harris said. “Probably a high in the mid-40s and a low around 36 or 37.”

There doesn’t seem to be any significant snow flurries in the future, Harris said.