Metro Vancouverites should get a break from stormy weather this weekend.
Environment Canada Meteorologist Chris Doyle says the unsettled conditions should persist through at least Friday morning (Dec. 27). Several storms are expected this week, including one short-lived wind event after overnight Monday, a powerful windstorm on Christmas Day, and a third low-pressure system overnight Thursday.
Christmas Day's potent frontal system could wreak havoc on the Lower Mainland, causing power outages on the holiday. Powerful winds and heavy rain are expected to last until late in the evening.
Conditions are expected to clear on Friday afternoon following a weaker low-pressure system that will bring wind to the region overnight Thursday.
"We're seeing a transition out of the stormy system after this week," he explains. "We've got a ridge of high-pressure building on the coast that should arrive sometime on Saturday and Sunday."
Metro Vancouver weather forecast includes a shift to cooler, drier conditions
The ridge of high pressure should produce cooler but less "wet and windy" conditions for several days.
"It looks like it will hold through New Year's Day," he notes.
Temperatures have been several degrees above seasonal averages thanks to the long span of stormy weather. Daytime highs have ranged between 8 and 0 C and falling to lows around 6 C overnight. The seasonal average is a high of 6 C and a low of 1 C.
Starting around Sunday, temperatures should drop to highs around 6 c with lows ranging between freezing to 2 C.
"The air cools off because the skies are drier," Doyle notes, adding that we might see frost to ring in the start of 2025.
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