Major Snow Storm to Threaten ‘Thanksgiving’ Travel – Stay Prepared! 

United States: The weather forecast warns that as winter sets in, a storm will combine with frigid air, impacting the eastern half of the US just as people travel for Thanksgiving. 

Experts predict the storm will move through the Midwest and South on Wednesday night, reaching the East Coast by Thanksgiving Day, bringing a surge of cold air similar to the chaos of Black Friday shopping. 

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Currently, meteorologists are even unsure of the path of the storm, and based on the specific storm path, some regions will get their holiday snow while others will get a wet and cloudy mess. 

But two scenarios are in play, and in each, there will be a disruptive storm for last-second travelers. 

The first of them would feature a storm forming over the Plains on Wednesday and then intensify as it moves eastward, CNN reported. 

It would reach the midweek as quite a potent force, especially by Wednesday night, as it spreads rain from the Midwest to the South. 

The probable path of the storm 

After reaching the Appalachian Mountains, it will turn Northeast and track Thursday right along the spine of the mountains, drawing some of that cold Canadian air, and then speed up for the New England Coast Thursday night. 

This would produce another round of heavy, measurable snow accumulation over the interior Northeast Thursday while rain soaks regions at lower elevations. 

Furthermore, wind speeds would also rise up Thursday in the East, with gusts as high as 30 mph probably throughout the region. 

Sustained winds are possible with higher gusts near the coast from the Carolinas to southern New England. 

The probability of flight and auto stirring Being a valid last-minute Thanksgiving Day traveling force is gusty. Wet and windy weather threatens trees and power lines or may fall to the ground. 

Forecasters said the storm would bring it to northern Maine by Friday morning and leave the United States soon after that, CNN reported. 

This would, therefore, set the stage for mostly sunny but relatively light winds for the East through the remainder of the week and the weekend. 

However, in another possible scenario, this would also bring the heaviest rain and risky wet snow, which would largely shift out of the Northeast, thereby instead creating a much wetter Thanksgiving for the mid-Atlantic. 

Later, the storm would brim in late Wednesday night in the surrounding area of Mississippi or Tennessee valleys while considering this scenario.