After a way warmer than normal first weekend of 2019 with a daytime high on Sunday an impressive 10 degrees above average, relatively cooler and wetter conditions rolled in to start the week.
It was a bit of a rude awakening and return to work and school after an extended holiday break in the North Okanagan with a wave of snow and gusty wind sliding in Monday morning.
That wave also clipped parts of the Central Okanagan as the region caught the tail end of a cold front sliding by, which will knock daytime highs back into low single digits Monday afternoon as snow eases.
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Skies then clear through the evening and temperatures plunge toward minus double digits as an arctic high pressure system drops in overnight.
Minus 9 is around where the mercury will bottom out by Tuesday morning with some sunshine possible early in the day before clouds swing back in with a slight chance of late day flurries.
The region will stay below freezing all day with afternoon highs aiming to hop up to -1 before sundown.
The chance of snow increases Tuesday night into Wednesday morning as moisture from a system off the coast streams into the BC Interior, which could bring a risk of late day rain as temperatures warm a few degrees above freezing for an afternoon high.
A chance of precipitation returns, but to a lesser extent on Thursday under mostly cloudy skies with an afternoon high making it back into mid-single digits.
Further warming is anticipated heading into the second weekend of the year with afternoon highs Friday through Sunday edging into the 5 to 6 degree range under partly-to-mostly cloudy skies.
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