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Thanksgiving winter storm and Arctic cold cause widespread disruptions to travel plans across the United States
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The weather system is expected to disrupt travel plans, with over 1,400 flights experiencing delays and 56 being cancelled. The forecast indicates that a winter storm will roll through parts of the Midwest and South on Wednesday night and spread across the East on Thanksgiving Day, bringing substantial snowfall to regions near the Great Lakes.
There will be localized areas that will be paralyzed from the lake snow with some interstates also being greatly impacted.
Travel could be very difficult to impossible in the hardest hit areas.
Forecast accumulations will become more clear as the event approaches.
Temperatures are likely to be the coldest since mid-February in the Northern Plains and Midwest, providing an abrupt change from the record, or near-record, warm autumn so far.
Wind chills across much of the Dakotas and Minnesota will be below -15 degrees with some portions of North Dakota as cold as -30 to -40 degrees. This poses an increased risk of hypothermia and frostbite on exposed skin. Have a winter survival kit if you must travel.
The first significant Arctic outbreak of the season will arrive in the Northern Plains on Thanksgiving.
At the peak of the Arctic outbreak, minimum wind chills should fall below zero for much of the Northern Plains and Upper Midwest.
Travel disruptions are likely, especially on I-90 between Cleveland and Buffalo and I-81 north of Syracuse.
A prolonged lake effect snow event will bury some areas east of both Lakes Erie and Ontario with several feet of snow today through early next week.
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- 1.US National Weather Service
- 2.American Automobile Association
- 3.Flight Aware
- 4.China Report
- 5.Climate Prediction Center