Edmonton weather for Sept. 19: Cool down incoming [Video]

After four consecutive days with afternoon temperatures in the 20s, a brief cool down is looming.

We’ll get one more “nice” day with sunshine and an afternoon high close to 20 C.

BUT…temperatures drop back into the low to mid teens for Friday and mid to upper teens for Saturday in the city.

We’ll get back to afternoon highs around 20 C on Sunday/Monday and the long-range outlook for Tuesday/Wednesday has afternoon temperatures in the low to mid 20s.

There’s an upper trough punching in from the northwest tonight and Friday.

That should help set off some showers and possibly a few thunderstorms in parts of central Alberta this evening.

It looks like most (possibly all) of that action will be south of Edmonton. The Red Deer and Wainwright regions have a better chance of seeing some evening showers/thunderstorms.

But, I’ve put a 40-per cent chance of a shower in …