It seems all the weather stories are focusing on Chicago this Thanksgiving holiday.
First, we had dense fog leading to hundreds of flight delays at both O'Hare and Midway airports on the busy Wednesday travel day.
Thanksgiving Day
(PHOTOS: Dense fog in Chicago)
On Thursday, we may see one of the warmest Thanksgiving Days in years as southwesterly winds ahead of a cold front send warmer air northward into the Midwest.
If the high temperature reaches 63 degrees as we are currently forecasting in Chicago, this would tie 1915 as the third warmest Thanksgiving on record. Since 1873, temperatures have been in the 60s on Thanksgiving Day on only nine different occasions. The warmest Thanksgiving on record occurred in 1966 when the mercury soared to 69 degrees.
It's not just Chicago enjoying a mild Thanksgiving Day.
St. Louis, Mo. may reach near 70 degrees, only four degrees away from their warmest Thanksgiving on record of 74 degrees set in three different years. Detroit, Mich. is forecast to reach around 62 degrees, which is only a few degrees shy of their record warmest Thanksgiving of 65 degrees in 1986.
Cold Returns for Black Friday
As they say, all good things must come to end. Just like your leftovers getting cold on Thursday night, so will temperatures as a cold front moves through.
Highs will not get out of the 40s in St. Louis and Detroit on Black Friday. In the Windy City, you'll be stuck in the upper 30s with chilly northwest winds.
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