If you have travel plans anywhere from the Great Lakes to Florida, storms could cause you some serious problems on Nov. 21.
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00:00 a closer look at the travel delays in the eastern US tomorrow. We are joined
00:03 now by Michelle McLeod. Michelle, it looks like it's going to be a busy
00:07 travel day as far as the weather goes causing problems in the eastern half of
00:11 the country tomorrow. That's the sound that people are gonna be making when
00:16 they are thinking about traveling in the eastern half of the country. I mean, the
00:21 counterclockwise rotation on here. Kevin was telling you about the southern side
00:24 of this bringing severe weather portions of the south and the south central, but
00:29 this system is gonna move its way farther north and east and bring issues
00:35 to portions of the Midwest and the northeast. Let's get straight into it. I
00:39 like to show this. This is the upper level energy and meteorology. We call
00:43 that vorticity, but it's the x-ray of the atmosphere, so to say. So let's go back.
00:49 Let me show you what things are looking like. This is kind of what we've been
00:52 looking at now, but there was another bowling ball that's gonna make its way
00:56 into the southeast, and so the east is really the problem. Check it out. Holiday
01:02 travel forecast. I got red lights from the Great Lakes all the way into the
01:07 Panhandle, Florida. Make your way up, and the farther you go out, well, the more we
01:13 go from yellow light, but I mean, most of the country is dealing with great
01:17 conditions, but if you're east of the Mississippi, I'm sorry. So let's get into
01:23 what's going on. So by 7 in the morning, that system has now made its way to the
01:27 Great Lakes. On the upper side of that, you're seeing the pinks, the blues, that
01:32 winter mixed precipitation, some flurries, and you know this is gonna be enhanced
01:36 in higher elevations. Now, it's not just a northern thing. This is a southern thing,
01:40 too. It's just the east, so you're gonna be dealing with the potential for some
01:43 severe weather on Tuesday, and it's no joke. I'm talking like the potential for
01:48 tornadoes and localized damaging winds, but north, northern New York to New
01:54 England, even the Catskills, looking at potential for icy precipitation. My
01:59 goodness. Check it out. By 7 a.m. on Wednesday, this is the busiest travel day
02:04 of the year, and we're still not done with it. This is gonna head off into the
02:07 coast, and so now the more interior portions of Maine will be seeing this on
02:11 Wednesday. Check it out. Slippery roads, slow travel. In the pink, I've got ice. In
02:16 the blue, I've got snow. This is Tuesday night until Wednesday. I'm talking from
02:21 central New York, northern New York, and to northern New England, green and white
02:25 mountains, all the way around the St. Lawrence River Valley. This is where
02:29 travel is gonna be especially difficult, so when it comes to your travel outlook,
02:33 I've got delays in places like Cleveland, Ohio, and Atlanta, Georgia, looking at a
02:38 high potential for delays, and then when it comes to Wednesday, we're gonna
02:43 confine your travel risk more to New England, portions of Pennsylvania as well.
02:49 Kevin. You got it. The next couple of days, eastern third of the country,
02:54 especially, gonna have some problems. Well, you're looking at some video here from,
02:58 looks like it was Thanksgiving a couple of years ago, the Macy's Thanksgiving
03:03 Parade, and we do have some nice weather headed your way on Thanksgiving in New
03:08 York City. They're gonna be dealing with rain into Wednesday, but we will dry out
03:12 out for the 97th Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade.