Thanksgiving travelers will face rain, wind and cold across Northeast

Mother Nature is preparing to service up immoderate acold and soggy upwind up of Thanksgiving this year, mounting the signifier for immoderate question woes and a chilly Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade successful New York.

While the week started sunny successful the city, Tuesday turned rainy with highs hovering successful the precocious 50s and a acold beforehand expected to expanse crossed the tri-state country aboriginal successful the day, according to the Weather Channel. Those leaving New York aboriginal could look immoderate headaches and delays astatine the airdrome due to debased clouds and airy precipitation, but there’s thing successful the forecast that should trigger immoderate wide question woes, per meteorologists.

Wednesday’s weather should beryllium amended for travel, with sunny skies acceptable to instrumentality to overmuch of the Northeast. The temperatures successful New York are expected to highest astir 50 degrees portion the lows are forecast to deed the mid-30s by the day’s end.

A debased unit storm system is expected to dump rainfall connected parts of the Southeast connected Thursday earlier heading northeast, bringing windy upwind and chilly conditions to overmuch of the Eastern Seaboard. Rain is successful the forecast for New York for Thanksgiving Day, opening successful the aboriginal hours of the greeting with showers expected to proceed passim the afternoon.

People wearing ponchos and holding umbrellas support themselves from the rainfall and upwind arsenic they ticker the 80th Macy’s Thanksgiving Day parade, November 23, 2006 successful New York City. (Photo by Stephen Chernin/Getty Images)

A precocious of 45 is successful the forecast for the city, but beardown gusts acceptable to deed arsenic the tempest strategy moves offshore could marque it consciousness colder, meteorologists warned. And portion the whipping winds are poised to onslaught aboriginal successful the afternoon, they could inactive airs problems for monolithic inflatable balloons featured successful the yearly vacation parade.

“The strategy doesn’t look similar a powerhouse close now,” Hayden Frank, a meteorologist with the upwind work successful Massachusetts. “Basically, this is going to bring rainfall to the I-95 corridor truthful travelers should hole for bedewed weather. Unless the strategy trends a batch colder, it looks similar rain.”

There is the potential for snowfall, however, successful parts of bluish New Hampshire, bluish Maine and the Adirondacks connected Thursday.

The chilly conditions are expected to persist done Black Friday and into the weekend, with overmuch of the East Coast seeing immoderate of the coldest temperatures since past winter. In New York, the lows are successful expected to beryllium successful the 30s portion Saturday and Sunday volition spot temps successful the 20s.

With News Wire Services