Bill Karins, Meteorologist

The busiest holiday travel week of the year is here. With the exception of a snow forecast on Christmas Eve, I consider this the most important and looked at forecast of the year. Over the weekend and into next week the weather pattern across the country will be flip-flopping. The East will go from cold to warm and the West will go from Warm to cold. In the middle of this pattern change we might see a troublesome storm for the busiest travel day on Wednesday. A storm will move from Dallas to Detroit bring rain to most areas of the Mississippi Valley. The big question is what will happen on the backside of the storm. If the storm is strong enough, we could see it pull down a chilly air mass from the Northern Plains and we could be talking snow on the storms backside. Regardless, once the storm pulls into Canada on Thanksgiving the coldest air of the winter season will settle in over the Western 2/3’s of the nation.

Travel Trouble Highlights

Saturday: Rainy in the Northwest, Lake Effect Snow

Sunday: Rainy in the Northwest

Monday: Rain and Snow Northern Rockies

Tuesday: Winter Mix Rockies, Strong Santa Anna Wind Event

Wednesday: Rainy North Texas to Great Lakes, Some Winter Weather Central Plains

Thanksgiving: Rainy and Windy Great Lakes, Rain Ohio Valley

Friday: Rainy in Northeast and Mid-Atlantic

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