Nov 3: Rounds of Rain Across North and West, & Last Month of Hurricane Season

The view from our weather station at Syracuse is a perfect display of what the weather will be over the next week across the region, periods of sun followed by clouds and rain:

Showers this evening, clear tomorrow, more rain on Wednesday, clear on Thursday and more rain on Friday can be expected in Syracuse. Track the forecast below:

Similar forecasts can be expected across much of the Great Lakes and Northeast region as several different systems will move across: 

Rounds of rain and even some higher elevation snow are possible and while no one system will bring particularly heavy precipitation, the totals will add up through the next week:

Colder air will be brought down from Canada behind each system, ending with the coldest temperatures of the season arriving early next week and possibly the first freeze for much of the Eastern US: 

This looks to set up the first lake-effect snow event of the season across the Great Lakes:

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Meanwhile, the Western US will get round after round of rain brought in by several different atmospheric rivers, demonstrated nicely by the precipitable water loop through the week:

Totals will really add up across the region, especially in Southern Oregon and Northern California where over 5 inches of rain are expected:

Check out the view from our station in Eugene, OR at the University of Oregon. Fall foliage is still out but rain as moved in throughout the day:

The rain is now here to stay and is in the forecast for every day this week, track the current conditions and forecast below:

And finally, with Melissa having become extratropical last week, there are currently no tropical systems being monitored by the NHC:

If the season ended today, it would be the first season since 2015 that did not have a hurricane make landfall in the US. Luckily, there isn't much of a signal for anything tropical to develop over the next couple of weeks.