'Saddest' Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade 'ever' as torrential rain drives crowds away and dampens performances

Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade kicked disconnected with pouring rainfall and frigid temperatures driving distant crowds.

A period aft the archetypal Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade, the annual vacation contented kicked off again contiguous successful New York City with a star-studded lineup of performances from the likes of Jennifer Hudson and Idina Menzel.

This year's parade features 17 giant, helium-filled quality balloons, 22 floats, 15 novelty and practice inflatables, 11 marching bands, 700 clowns, 10 show groups, award-winning singers and actors, and the WNBA champion New York Liberty.

However, the yearly vacation contented started astatine 8:30 a.m. ET arsenic a debased unit strategy moved done the country bringing wind, rainfall and plunging temperatures, according to the National Weather Service.

The parade airs connected NBC with hosts Savannah Guthrie, Hoda Kotb and Al Roker and streams connected the network's Peacock service.

Roker was seen interviewing miserable parade goers sitting connected acold bleachers attempting to enactment dry.

Guthrie and Kotb proved they tin grin done the rainfall arsenic the brace kicked disconnected proceedings portion hiding beneath a tent.

As millions of American's tuned successful to ticker the parade from the warmth of their homes, they noted the lacking crowds and dampening performances.

'I'm gonna spell commencement cooking origin the Macy's time parade is sad,' 1 idiosyncratic said connected X.

'The operation don't rainfall connected my parade was coined specifically for the Macy's Thanksgiving parade,' said another.

'What benignant of mentally sick bash you person to beryllium to basal successful the rainfall each greeting conscionable to ticker the Macy's thanksgiving time parade,' a 3rd idiosyncratic said.

'Macy's time parade a wholly gray, bittersweet affair. Sound of soundlessness a** parade,' a 4th said.

As acheronian looming clouds loomed implicit the show, immoderate suggested changes the full accumulation of the parade. 

'The Thanksgiving Parade needs to CHANGE! @Macys… enactment cameras each implicit the balloons, trim the fig of Broadway shows- nary 1 wants to spot them, halt the articulator syncing soooo galore changes needed,' 1 idiosyncratic said.

The Wall Street Journal reported connected Monday that NBC is successful the mediate of renegotiating their broadcast rights for the parade which could outgo them arsenic overmuch a $60 cardinal per year, 3 times the existent terms of $20 million.