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Will Our Thanksgiving Forecast Ruffle Your Feathers?
Thanksgiving Day is a special time of year for families and friends to gather together, share their blessings, reminisce, watch parades and/or football, and, most importantly, eat!
While you’re cooking up a feast of turkey, stuffing, potatoes, cranberry sauce, pumpkin pie, and all of the other traditional favorites inside, you may be wondering what Mother Nature will be cooking up outside? Our forecast might ruffle a few feathers!
Here’s what we’re predicting for your Thanksgiving holiday weekend: Thursday, November 28th through Sunday, December 1st:
Zone 1 – Northeast & New England
New York, Vermont, New Hampshire, Maine, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland, Washington D.C.
A storm hugs the Atlantic Coast, bringing increasing winds, copious precipitation; not good news for the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade. Then, expect lots of clouds, showers of rain and wet snow for the weekend.
Zone 2 – Great Lakes, Ohio Valley & Midwest
Ohio, Michigan, Indiana, Kentucky, Illinois, Wisconsin
Few rain or wet snow showers Thanksgiving, turning colder for the weekend.
Zone 3 – Southeast
Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Florida
Storm hugs Atlantic Coast, bringing increasing winds, copious precipitation for Turkey Day, then rain and possible wet snow shifts into Tennessee and points south to Gulf Coast for the weekend.
Zone 4 – North Central
Missouri, Iowa, Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas, Colorado, Wyoming, Montana
Rain or wet snow for the Rockies and Plains states for Thanksgiving, then very cold. Stormy conditions develop from the western slopes of the Rockies and all points east for the weekend.
Zone 5 – South Central
Arkansas, Louisiana, Oklahoma, Texas, New Mexico
Rain, snow for Thanksgiving; then very cold air sweeps south. Mostly cloudy, windy, with showers of rain and wet snow for the weekend.
Zone 6 – Northwest
Washington, Oregon, Idaho
Prepare for a wet Thanksgiving, the stormy conditions prevail from the Pacific Northwest Coast to the western slopes of the Rockies for the weekend.
Zone 7 – Southwest
California, Nevada, Utah, Arizona
Intervals of sun and clouds translate into a good forecast for Thanksgiving. But the weekend brings showers of rain and some wet snow.
Regardless of where you’ll be or what the weather will bring, Thanksgiving is always a wonderful time to be with family and friends— so enjoy!
Helpful Hint…
Reuse those tubes this gardening season! Cut four slits at one end and fold them in to close up the bottom. Then fill with soil and plant your seeds. Place on a tray in a warm spot away from drafts. Because the cardboard is biodegradable, you can put the pots directly into the ground when you’re ready to plant! (Just make a couple of slits along the side so the roots can spread).
If you notice a hole in the upper left-hand corner of your Farmers' Almanac, don't return it to the store! That hole isn't a defect; it's a part of history. Starting with the first edition of the Farmers' Almanac in 1818, readers used to nail holes into the corners to hang it up in their homes, barns, and outhouses (to provide both reading material and toilet paper). In 1919, the Almanac's publishers began pre-drilling holes in the corners to make it even easier for readers to keep all of that invaluable information (and paper) handy.
