The overall weather pattern is looking much less stormy for millions that will be taking to the roads and the skies ahead of Thanksgiving starting this weekend across the United States.
Around Thanksgiving, from Wednesday, Nov. 21, to Sunday, Nov. 25, the American Automobile Association (AAA) is projecting that 54.3 million will travel 50 miles or more away from home.
The estimate is up 2.5 million from last year and will be the greatest in more than a dozen years, AAA stated in a press release. The sheer volume of vehicles on the road in congested metro areas may cause travel time to double, triple or quadruple.
The storm scheduled to bring a broad area of rain, ice and snow to the central and eastern part of the nation from late Wednesday to Friday should be the caboose in the recent train of large storms and widespread travel disruptions.
However, there will be small-scale weather concerns moving forward leading up to Thanksgiving Day.
Cold air to surrender in South, retake the battlefield in central and eastern US
The broad area of abnormally cold conditions will shrink in size in the days leading up to Thanksgiving.
Temperatures are forecast to moderate to more seasonable levels across the South.
There will also be some days where temperatures approach or exceed average in the Midwest and Northeast. However, people across the northern half of the Central and Eastern states should expect significant day-to-day temperature fluctuations.
A southward press of cold air is forecast to produce a swath of snow over the Rockies and High Plains, including the Interstate 25 corridor this weekend.
As the cold air advances, accumulating snow and slippery travel will shift from Idaho, Montana and the Dakotas on Friday and Friday night to Wyoming and western Nebraska during Friday night to Saturday and Colorado and western Kansas from Saturday to early Sunday.
Denver is not only an airport connection for skiing ventures in the region, but also a major airport hub for cross-country travel. Enough snow may fall during part of this weekend to lead to airline delays and slippery conditions on the roads.
The same press of cold air may trigger light snow farther to the east this weekend over the Upper Midwest and interior Northeast. However, any accumulation will tend to be spotty in nature, including along the I-80 and I-90 corridors from Chicago to Cleveland and Buffalo, New York.
It is possible this patch of spotty light snow organizes a bit more to produce a moderate snowfall over northern New York state and northern New England during early next week. However, that is far from a certainty at this point.
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