4 things to know about the weather
- Good travel weather today
- Rain Thanksgiving morning
- Chilly Black Friday
- Extremely cold start to December
Wednesday will feature good travel weather with dry conditions and plenty of clouds.
Temperatures will be cooler Wednesday than Tuesday, but seasonable, with highs in the low to mid-50s on one of the biggest days of the holiday travel rush.
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The I-95 corridor will be dry from D.C. to Boston and south, all the way through the Carolinas.
The biggest weather impacts on holiday travel on Wednesday will be in the inner-mountain West, including Denver and Salt Lake City.
Wednesday morning starts out chilly with temperatures in the 30s and 40s. By noon, highs will be in the mid-50s with some sun peeking through.
Rain moves in late overnight, and it will be a rainy start to Thanksgiving.
Weather radar
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Thanksgiving Day's early rain
If you are running in a Turkey Trot prepare for wet conditions.
If there's going to be an end to the rain on Thanksgiving, it will start to come to an end around the midday hours on Thursday with a breezy, but dry afternoon.
Rain totals of a half-inch to 1 inch are expected with temperatures hovering close to 50° all day.
A cold front will come through late Thursday afternoon so the wind will pick up as the rain ends.
Wintry temps starting on Black Friday
Friday will be breezy, chilly and dry with highs only reaching the mid-40s.
A genuine shot of winter cold arrives just in time for the weekend and the first full week of December.
For Saturday into the first week of December, it will be frigid with highs only around 40 degrees.
This will be our longest stretch of colder-than-average weather since the start of September (eight days in a row) when staying below average actually felt good.
10-day forecast
Quickcast
TODAY:
Becoming Cloudy & much Cooler
Highs: Low to Mid 50s
TONIGHT:
Cloudy, Rain arriving overnight
Lows: Low to Mid 40s
THURSDAY:
Rain tapering off around the midday hours then Breezy & Chilly
Highs: 40s/50s
FRIDAY:
Clouds giving way to Sun & Breezy
Highs: Near 50
SATURDAY:
Mostly Sunny & Colder
Highs: Upper 30s to Low 40s
SUNDAY:
Partly Sunny & Cold again
Highs: Upper 30s to Low 40s