Calgary weather: Temperatures dropping for start of the Thanksgiving weekend [Video]

A shift in weather patterns will align with a cool down for the west over the next couple of days.

Daytime highs on Wednesday will be a few degrees colder than the past few days with a second drop of around 5 C by Thursday.

The main weather maker for the start of the week was a ridge of high pressure that had stalled out in the upper levels, but that ridge has already started to track east and will continue to do so throughout the day Wednesday.

Behind it, cooler air will sink south toward the southern border of Alberta, B.C. and Saskatchewan, bringing both daytime highs and overnight lows closer to a seasonal range for Thursday, Friday and Saturday.

Rain will continue along the northern edge of that departing ridge or into areas west of the QEII and into south-central and central Alberta on Wednesday, with a slight …