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Get ready for some frost on your jack-o-lanterns

Nov 1, 2022, 12:38 PM | Updated: Nov 2, 2022, 8:57 am

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A grim faced pumpkin, a remnant of another holiday sits on a front porch enduring the indignity of snow November 26, 2014 in Frederick, MD. (Photo by Katherine Frey/The Washington Post via Getty Images)

(Photo by Katherine Frey/The Washington Post via Getty Images)

The coolest weather of the season thus far is on tap this week. Low temperatures in areas more distant from Puget Sound are expected to drop well into the 30s through Wednesday night.

Frost is quite possible in places like Olympia, Shelton, Covington, Enumclaw, Arlington, Monroe, Snohomish, and the Mt. Vernon area.

Expect a cooler, wetter winter this year

Now is the time to move sensitive plantings indoors to avoid the potential of freezing temperatures and frost.

Drier weather with clearing skies along with the coolest air mass of the fall season will result in temperatures dropping into the 30s across much of Western Washington bringing the threat of freezing temperatures and frost.

Milder temperatures will resume starting Thursday this week as the next Pacific weather system moves onshore with more rain.

Cliff Mass, a professor of atmospheric sciences at the University of Washington, is predicting that there will be snow in the Puget Sound region by the weekend or early next week.

“The models have suggested that later this weekend and next week record-breaking cold and snow hit the region. And we are confident that a powerful atmospheric river will bring a plume of moisture to the coast on Friday, resulting in substantial rain and mountain snow,” Mass said on his blog.

Follow Ted Buehner, the KIRO FM news meteorologist on Twitter

L.B. Gilbert contributed to this report

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