Edmonton weather: Cool and cloudy today, big warm up Tuesday

According to Cory Edel's forecast, Edmonton will see near-seasonal temperatures Monday.

It looks like the upcoming Thanksgiving weekend will be a turning point for the weather pattern.

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But, we’ll get to that in a moment. Leading up to the weekend, we have a few more warm days coming.

Today won’t be one of those.

Coming off highs of 12 C Saturday/Sunday, we’ll get to the same range today under mostly cloudy skies.

There are some showers moving from the northwest to southeast and although most of that precipitation should stay west west of the city, there’s a chance of some showers in or near the city later this morning or early this afternoon. (And a couple scattered showers just north and east of the city this morning.)

A wave of warm air washes across the province on Tuesday and boosts temperatures into the high teens to low 20s.

But, it won’t last. Showers will develop in western and northwestern Alberta on the back edge of that upper ridge. There might even be a bit of wet snow in parts of northwestern Alberta Tuesday evening.

Just a slight chance of a scattered shower in the Edmonton region late Tuesday night.

We’ll drop back to the 11 to 14 C range for Wednesday and then the ridge builds back in for Thursday/Friday.

Mid to upper teens for daytime highs those days.

A significant cool down settles in for the Thanksgiving weekend AND there’ll be snow.

Several centimetres of snow is possible in western Alberta starting Saturday and carrying into Sunday.

For the Edmonton region and surrounding areas, there’s a good chance of showers late Saturday...possibly turning to wet snow Saturday night.

Could we wake up with some snow on the ground Sunday morning? At this point, that seems unlikely - but not completely out of the question.

Daytime highs will be around 10 C Saturday and Monday and around 5 C on Sunday.

Looking LONG range to next week: Daytime highs settle in the 9 to 14 C range.

Here’s the forecast for Edmonton and area:

Today - Mostly cloudy. 30% chance of a shower.

High: 12

Tonight - Mostly cloudy.

9pm: 8

Tuesday - Partly cloudy.

Morning Low: 5

Afternoon High: 21

Mostly cloudy with a 30% chance of a showers late in the evening/overnight.

Wednesday - Mix of sun & cloud.

Morning Low: 5

Afternoon High: 13

Thursday - Mainly sunny.

Morning Low: 0

Afternoon High: 17

Friday - Mainly sunny.

Morning Low: 4

Afternoon High: 19

Saturday - Mostly cloudy. 60% chance of showers. Risk of wet snow in the evening/overnight.

Morning Low: 6

Afternoon High: 10