From snow on travel days to storms on Thanksgiving and Black Friday, here's the rundown of how the weather across the country will affect 2024 Thanksgiving plans.
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00:00Well, believe it or not, we're counting it down to Thanksgiving. Thanksgiving is
00:03coming up faster than many of us can even imagine. Here's coming up next
00:07Thursday and it's a late Thanksgiving, but as we move forward into the forecast
00:12we want to prepare you for your travel plans. There's a great number of people
00:15are going to be traveling this year according to our friends at AAA and we
00:19were looking at a pair of storms Thanksgiving week. This is kind of the
00:22broad brush big picture look at the week at once with a storm track that will
00:26keep the Southern Plains, the Ohio Valley and the Northeast wetter. We
00:30haven't seen a pattern like this for some time. January like chill expands
00:34across the Northern Plains, mainly dry in the West which will probably be a
00:37welcome thing after the rarely heavy rain that we're gonna face late this
00:40week. As we look at the days leading up to Thanksgiving, here's your holiday
00:44pre Thanksgiving travel forecast the Tuesday and Wednesday of next week. One
00:49of those storms will be moving up the Ohio Valley, mainly dry for the East
00:52Coast, a little chilly, a little brisk up into New England and certainly blustery
00:56and chilly into the Northern Plains and we will still be active early in the
01:00week here with the final stage of around a series of Pacific storms bringing rain,
01:05mountain snow and a mix across much of the Great Basin. But behind that we do
01:09find a little bit of a change. Here's Thanksgiving Day. This is when
01:12California dries out, cool but dry, even into San Francisco. Some mixed
01:17precipitation into parts of the Northwest down into the Great Basin. But
01:20here's the next storm coming into the Ohio Valley and some thunderstorms down
01:24in the lower Mississippi Valley. We have to keep an eye out for them. And then
01:28post Thanksgiving, Black Friday and the following weekend, we're calling it the
01:32holiday shopping forecast. Whether you're doing it behind the computer or
01:35heading out to the mall or maybe your favorite local businesses, we're gonna
01:39have some rain to contend with and some thunderstorms in the southeast, periods
01:42of rain for the Ohio Valley in the Northeast. We're gonna begin to chip
01:45away at this drought with this new pattern and look at the snow in the
01:48northern Rockies. The wheels of change are in motion.