Wet weather could slow down your Thanksgiving travel

Anyone traveling in a zone from the southern Plains to New England could run into issues due to storms in the days before Thanksgiving.

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00:00Well, if you're anything like me, you are already looking forward to Thanksgiving.

00:04And that means not only the food and the family, but it also means for a lot, 80 million travelers,

00:10the road and air conditions.

00:11So let's get right into the latest here.

00:13Here's the overall pattern set up that we have forecast for next week.

00:17Across the Northern Plains, we're going to see some January-like cold weather in the

00:20forecast.

00:21Across the West, overall, we're going to stay dry.

00:23So good weather over there.

00:25Now across the Southeast, we're actually going to see a warming trend.

00:28However, across the Southern Plains, the Midwest, the Great Lakes, and into the Northeast,

00:33we could see some wet weather, including some snow chances that could slow down or delay

00:39some of those travel plans.

00:40Let's take a look at the latest.

00:41This is our travel delay forecast here.

00:43This is before Thanksgiving, Tuesday and Wednesday, the two busiest travel days of the year for

00:50some areas.

00:51And you can see right there, that same area from the Southern Plains, Texas, Oklahoma,

00:55through the Midwest into the Northeast.

00:57This area right here, highlighted in red, is where we could see some travel disruptions

01:01for some areas.

01:02So heads up, as we head throughout the next couple of days, we could see some wet weather

01:06slowing things down for Tuesday and Wednesday here as we head into next week and on Thanksgiving.

01:13So how hot is it going to be?

01:14How warm is it going to be?

01:15How cold is it going to be here for your Thanksgiving forecast?

01:17Well, here's an updated look at your temperature and weather forecast here for Thanksgiving.

01:23You can see across the Northern Plains into the Pacific Northwest, very cold weather.

01:27Billings only getting up to 26 degrees.

01:30It'll be freezing in Minneapolis, but as you head off to the South, pretty much anywhere

01:33South of Dallas, that's where we're going to see temperatures warming up.

01:36And yes, even Miami, 85 degrees there for Thanksgiving afternoon.

01:41So the pattern on Thanksgiving Day, if we do see any rainfall, it looks like it's going

01:44to stay off to the East, across the East Coast into the Southeast.