A late November storm is ready to bring quite a lot of impacts, including severe weather, accumulating snow, high winds, and the primary real blast of wintry-like temperatures this season, which could threaten travel at first of Thanksgiving week.
The storm is forecast to develop out of the Rockies early next week and sweep north into the Northern Plains and Upper Mississippi Valley on Tuesday and Wednesday.
It would bring some soaking rains and the potential for the primary snow of the season on the storm’s western flanks.
Colder air behind the storm will flood into the Southern Plains and lower Mississippi Valley, where temperatures are forecast to drop below freezing.
Some frost is even possible along the Gulf Coast.
Meanwhile, the storm will intensify because it spins over the Great Lakes from Wednesday into Thursday, bringing a widespread high wind threat across the Great Lakes and Eastern US.
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Because the storm center drifts into the mid-Atlantic and Northeast toward the top of the week, trailing strong winds are expected to blow across Lake Michigan, Lake Erie and Lake Ontario and produce the potential for heavy snows across western Michigan and the Upper Peninsula, in addition to western Latest York.
Snowfall is feasible across parts of the inland Ohio Valley, northern mid-Atlantic and interior Northeast by the top of the week into the weekend, though there continues to be substantial uncertainty in the quantity of cold air available for snowfall.
Whether rain or snow, the inclement weather at first of the weekend across the Northeast does have the potential to snarl air and road traffic just because the Thanksgiving travel week gets underway.
Travel aside, temperatures are expected to tumble across much of the Northern Plains and northeastern quadrant of the US by the weekend, giving a wintry feel to the beginning of the vacation week.
