OUTLOOK: Thursday to Saturday: On Thursday the next upper trough continues down to the Lower Mainland splitting apart as it goes. Conditions will be mainly cloudy, cool with scattered showers for most of the south. Risk of thundershowers over the southern mainland. Winds will be light W-SW inflow (but lighter than Wednesday)Friday and Saturday will be mainly sunny and warmer (but not hot) as an east-west ridge axis from the Gulf of Alaska works it way down to Vancouver Island. Pressure gradients shift and winds will become light morning N-NE outflow alternating with light afternoon NW inflow. A risk of lightning continues over Manning Park and the east side of the southern Coast Range for Friday afternoon; no lightning anywhere on Saturday. Potential for visibilities to degrade with smoke drift from the Interior.
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