Thanksgiving Weather

We're near the end of Thanksgiving weekend, so it's time to see how 2017 compared to other years.

Temperatures

As I'm writing this, the final High for Thanksgiving Monday hasn't been recorded yet. But so far Friday was warm at 16°C, Saturday was cooler at 10°C, and Sunday reached 7°C. The average High is 12°C, and the average Low is 1°C, so this year we're right around where we would expect to be,

2016 was a cold Thanksgiving, with all 4 days down around freezing. And 2015 was a warm one, with all four days above 15°C, and the Saturday all the way up at 26°C. 2014 was quite warm too, with all four days above 15°C.

Taking the average temperatures across the entire weekend, the warmest recent Thanksgiving was 2010, which had 3 days above 20°C. The coldest was 2009, with the Highs for all four days below freezing.

Precipitation

In this chart we have we have Thanksgiving precipitation at the Airport, and it isn't very common.

The standout is obviously 1998, with 2.6mm of rain and 15.6cm on the Friday. And then last year in 2016 we had a total of 12.5cm of snow spread across the 4 days.

In 2017 we had 0.2mm of rain on Saturday, and then 0.4cm of snow on Sunday.