Nasty weather to cause Thanksgiving travel headaches for much of the eastern US on Tuesday

If you have travel plans anywhere from the Great Lakes to Florida, storms could cause you some serious problems on Nov. 21.

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00:00 a closer look at the travel delays in the eastern US tomorrow. We are joined

00:03 now by Michelle McLeod. Michelle, it looks like it's going to be a busy

00:07 travel day as far as the weather goes causing problems in the eastern half of

00:11 the country tomorrow. That's the sound that people are gonna be making when

00:16 they are thinking about traveling in the eastern half of the country. I mean, the

00:21 counterclockwise rotation on here. Kevin was telling you about the southern side

00:24 of this bringing severe weather portions of the south and the south central, but

00:29 this system is gonna move its way farther north and east and bring issues

00:35 to portions of the Midwest and the northeast. Let's get straight into it. I

00:39 like to show this. This is the upper level energy and meteorology. We call

00:43 that vorticity, but it's the x-ray of the atmosphere, so to say. So let's go back.

00:49 Let me show you what things are looking like. This is kind of what we've been

00:52 looking at now, but there was another bowling ball that's gonna make its way

00:56 into the southeast, and so the east is really the problem. Check it out. Holiday

01:02 travel forecast. I got red lights from the Great Lakes all the way into the

01:07 Panhandle, Florida. Make your way up, and the farther you go out, well, the more we

01:13 go from yellow light, but I mean, most of the country is dealing with great

01:17 conditions, but if you're east of the Mississippi, I'm sorry. So let's get into

01:23 what's going on. So by 7 in the morning, that system has now made its way to the

01:27 Great Lakes. On the upper side of that, you're seeing the pinks, the blues, that

01:32 winter mixed precipitation, some flurries, and you know this is gonna be enhanced

01:36 in higher elevations. Now, it's not just a northern thing. This is a southern thing,

01:40 too. It's just the east, so you're gonna be dealing with the potential for some

01:43 severe weather on Tuesday, and it's no joke. I'm talking like the potential for

01:48 tornadoes and localized damaging winds, but north, northern New York to New

01:54 England, even the Catskills, looking at potential for icy precipitation. My

01:59 goodness. Check it out. By 7 a.m. on Wednesday, this is the busiest travel day

02:04 of the year, and we're still not done with it. This is gonna head off into the

02:07 coast, and so now the more interior portions of Maine will be seeing this on

02:11 Wednesday. Check it out. Slippery roads, slow travel. In the pink, I've got ice. In

02:16 the blue, I've got snow. This is Tuesday night until Wednesday. I'm talking from

02:21 central New York, northern New York, and to northern New England, green and white

02:25 mountains, all the way around the St. Lawrence River Valley. This is where

02:29 travel is gonna be especially difficult, so when it comes to your travel outlook,

02:33 I've got delays in places like Cleveland, Ohio, and Atlanta, Georgia, looking at a

02:38 high potential for delays, and then when it comes to Wednesday, we're gonna

02:43 confine your travel risk more to New England, portions of Pennsylvania as well.

02:49 Kevin. You got it. The next couple of days, eastern third of the country,

02:54 especially, gonna have some problems. Well, you're looking at some video here from,

02:58 looks like it was Thanksgiving a couple of years ago, the Macy's Thanksgiving

03:03 Parade, and we do have some nice weather headed your way on Thanksgiving in New

03:08 York City. They're gonna be dealing with rain into Wednesday, but we will dry out

03:12 out for the 97th Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade.