things still qu nation for travel with the exception of the part saic northwest like we have been talking about for the last couple days bringing rain all across the west coast and that is the beginning of what's going to move in our direction for the middle of next week. now does it bring our november rainfall amounts up to where they should be? it depends on how much rain we get before we turn the calendar over to december, but it looks very likely we start the wet weather late on tuesday and it sort of is a couple of periods thursday as well as you can see that first round for tuesday again on wednesday and a whole lot of rain looks like it could be in the cards for us for thursday as well as wind and this could bring us maybe one to two inches of rainfall even more in some spots. we're hoping for it. we need it. a look at the 7 on 7 forecast showing a lot of sunshine in store for monday before the clouds return for us and the wet weather begin with mild temperatures wednesday and thursday. see you >> anchor: a lot of thanksgiving leftovers at your place in. >> anchor: yeah. eat those

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