4:26PM: Thanksgiving is tomorrow! I hope you aren’t just learning that from me. The country mostly looks like it will in Springfield, Missouri. Mostly clear, and with the first dose of chilly air for the season. It will continue snowing in the Great Lakes, and be warm out west, but it’s a big country and this is only one blog. Happy Thanksgiving!

9:48PM It has been a very windy at Victoria-Weather headquarters today behind the system bringing snow to the Great Lakes and rain in New England, but the post-frontal howling wind is nothing compared to what they are looking for in the Upper Ohio Valley.

2:52PM: There is a tornado watch out in Alabama right now. SPC has issued the below Mesoscale Discussion. Things are just starting to erupt in the region, but the severe weather is already past Tuscaloosa and nearly out of Birmingham. The area to keep a keen eye on for the next few hours is from Selma to Montgomery.

10:32PM: We focused on snow that will come this week, and there will be some disruptive shower activity through the middle of the week. I didn’t do a good enough job of conveying the possibility of thunderstorms. Look at all this lightning in Mississippi and Louisiana! Fortunately, only a flash flood warning for severe alerts right now.

10:10AM: It’s definitely a pattern now. More precipitation, which is likely to fall as snow, out west. The Sierras and Wasatch will continue to pick up snow for the nexxt couple of days. Building this stockpile is what will help the region stay watered when spring finally rolls around. All good news!

1:48PM: We discussed in our recent road trip forecast the threat for snow in the Sierras, and potential treachery around Truckee for unsuspecting drivers. Well, by the look of the current forecast from the WPC, there should no longer be unsuspecting drivers.

That’s a 70% chance of more than 4″ of snow through tomorrow morning in the high terrain along the California/Nevada border. Get the chains ready!

11:46PM Hey, go check out the Aurora! That is to say, if you live somewhere generally north of Mexico and in a cloudless, or cloud limited sky.

4:08PM: I can tell you that in the Upper Midwest this weekend, we saw some snow. That’s probably not a surprise for a lot of you because there is snow in the forecast for today as far south as the mountains of North Carolina and Tennessee.

9:29PM: Given the last update, I think it may be fairly easy to believe that there is currently no activity in the North Atlantic. Are we done with the tropical season?

3:57PM: Time for an advisory, if you need it: it’s November now, which means you need to start reviewing the WPC page for the heavy snowfall outlooks, as well as weaning off the SPC and NHC. Thank you, and apologies.

7:32PM: More from the WPC: All that incoming snow in the Pacific Northwest has been ascribed the atmospheric river label. It’s going to be snowy!

11:13PM: All this about the cooler weather inbound, I would be remis if I didn’t point out … It’s going to be warmer than normal for a healthy chunk of the country this week.

7:15PM: We are headed towards Halloween at the end of the week, and whether you like it or not, the weather looks to be on the warm side for a lot of the country. The core of the most above normal warmth looks to be around the Rockies, where Salt Lake City is looking at temperatures around 60 degrees. Trick or Treat!

8:15PM Hurricane Melissa’s eye has cleared Jamaica. The storm has been weakened a bit, but is still a strong storm, now readying to landfall in eastern Cuba. Melissa will weaken further over Cuba, and then will impact the southern Bahamas and Turks and Caicos islands.