Seattle weather: Cloudy Thursday, rain returns Friday

Good Wednesday evening everyone. I'm meteorologist Claire Anderson in the Fox 13 Weather Center for tonight. We are seeing milder conditions across western Washington with drier conditions into Thursday as well. Temperatures today have hit some record highs across western Washington, so looking forward to more mild conditions into tomorrow. Now, we're also going to be seeing some gusty winds returning, especially here heading into Friday out along the coast. And then wind and rain picks up across western Washington into the weekend with wet and gusty conditions. High snow levels as well. We'll talk about that coming up. But let's take a look at those conditions for today. November warmth. New record high set in Olympia, SeaTac, and Bellingham today, 69. Today in Bellingham, one of the warmest days on record for November, so definitely something to talk about today. Temperatures were just really nice, 67 for average Tacoma at 66, along with Olympia upper 50s for Forks, 50 degrees for Wenatchee. Average high this time of year is 53, so just showing you how much warmer by 10 to almost 15 degrees. Now, looking at the next several afternoons, we do start to decline here, But hey, tomorrow, the wreck. Record high for the day is 61. We could tie that again tomorrow. Upper 50s Friday, Saturday, slowly cooling back down to more average temperatures. Looking at our conditions here for today, we have been seeing a warm front move through today. The cold front sitting offshore. That's why we've been so warm. It's this warm sector moving into western Washington. The cold front is kicking up showers out towards the beaches, but it's stalled. It really is not moving closer than the Puget Sound, which is... Okay, for today, we do see those showers continue to stay further offshore through the rest of Thursday. We do see mostly to partly cloudy skies. Maybe a sunbreak or two before that sun goes down. Heading into Friday, though, we start to see our next round of showers and frontal system moving through. Thursday night, rain out towards the coast. Rain and wind moving onshore for Friday and throughout the afternoon time as well. Scattered showers are expected right into the weekend. Snow levels, though, will remain high. Here's where we're at through the rest of the week Even though if we do see showers Friday into Saturday, still above our major mountain passes, slowly dropping into early next week, but not expecting any major impacts currently. Future forecast of winds, gusty conditions again into tomorrow morning, or into Friday morning, excuse me, and then into the afternoon time. So tracking some gustier conditions again. Low 50s Seattle, Tacoma at 49, 50 for Olympia highs. Tomorrow will be nice to get out and about for your outdoor report. We are seeing low 60s for Seattle, Tacoma, Olympia tomorrow, and your extended forecast, wet and breezy for the weekend. Showers into early next week as well.