Seattle Has Our Cold Weather

This picture says it all. The northwest is stealing all of our cold weather! That deep trough has been digging in for days now out there and they are really feeling it. Seattle hasn't gotten out of the 30's for high temperatures. That never happens out there, especially not in November.

As for us, cold night tonight, moderately speaking. Temps will bottom out in the upper 20's in the city with suburban areas getting a little colder. It will be a cold start to the Thanksgiving day football games tomorrow but the good news is that there will be no wind and no rain. That is better than previous years for sure.

Thanksgiving will see our temps moderate a bit ahead of a strong storm that will track to our west overnight and into Friday. That means our winds will switch around to the southwest once again keeping us too warm for anything but rain. Rain could be heavy at times, especially early afternoon on Friday. So all of those losers who get up at 2am to shop should bring an umbrella. Map below shows expected rain and temp at 3pm on Friday.


Notice that the whole region, even areas to the far north, are above freezing. The cold air rushes back in on Saturday and Sunday but we get another warm up early next week. Unfortunately for you snow lovers, this looks to be the pattern for the near future. Warm ups followed by seasonably cold air followed by warm ups. The atmosphere is primed to give us a good winter storm, we just need the jet stream to cooperate and shift to the east and away from the Northwest. We shall see what December brings.

On a side note, Katrina and I went car shopping today. An interesting experience for both of us. I was expecting some dirt bag, sales jerk at every location. I must say that most of our sales associates were helpful and all smelled of cigarettes. I do think the whole atmosphere is funny though. No matter how many times you tell them that you are just looking for today, they try and pull every trick in the book to get you to buy at that very moment. I am sorry but no one is fooled by the "let me get my manager to cut you guys a special deal" move. None of them were too pushy though and one (the Subaru guy) didn't even try to close a deal at all, a move I definitely respected. I was just expecting that we would have to keep saying no at every dealership but Subaru took us at our word. Part of me does hate the whole car dealership culture though. I am sure all of the people who work there are fine people for the most part, but their whole vibe really made me want to punch them directly in the face. Sales people make me cringe. And this is coming from someone who technically sells something for a living. But our car shopping trip is over for the moment. Now we just have to get Katrina to be a big girl and make a decision. I told her that she should skip the SUV look and just go for a motorbike.