Thanksgiving travelers will face rain, wind and cold across Northeast

Mother Nature is preparing to serve up some cold and soggy weather ahead of Thanksgiving this year, setting the stage for some travel woes and a chilly Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade in New York.
While the week started sunny in the city, Tuesday turned rainy with highs hovering in the upper 50s and a cold front swept across the tri-state area later in the day, according to the Weather Channel. Those leaving New York early faced some headaches and delays at the airport due to low clouds and light precipitation, but nothing in the skies triggered any widespread travel woes.
Wednesday’s weather should prove better for travel, with sunny skies set to return to much of the Northeast. The temperatures in New York are expected to peak around 50 degrees while the lows are forecast to hit the mid-30s by the day’s end.
A low pressure storm system is expected to dump rain on parts of the Southeast on Thursday before heading northeast, bringing windy weather and chilly conditions to much of the Eastern Seaboard. Rain is in the forecast for New York for Thanksgiving Day, beginning in the early hours of the morning with showers expected to continue throughout the afternoon.
A high of 45 is in the forecast for the city, but strong gusts set to hit as the storm system moves offshore could make it feel colder, meteorologists warned. And while the whipping winds are poised to strike later in the afternoon, they could still pose problems for massive inflatable balloons featured in the annual holiday parade.
“The system doesn’t look like a powerhouse right now,” Hayden Frank, a meteorologist with the weather service in Massachusetts. “Basically, this is going to bring rain to the I-95 corridor so travelers should prepare for wet weather. Unless the system trends a lot colder, it looks like rain.”
There is the potential for snowfall, however, in parts of northern New Hampshire, northern Maine and the Adirondacks on Thursday.
The chilly conditions are expected to persist through Black Friday and into the weekend, with much of the East Coast seeing some of the coldest temperatures since last winter. In New York, the lows are in expected to be in the 30s while Saturday and Sunday will see temps in the 20s.
With News Wire Services