Decent weather and the fact many folks have already headed out make this perhaps the best day to travel during the holiday week. However, if you are watching a certain parade at Herald Square in Manhattan, wear your long johns and maybe five other layers.
Boston, New York, Philadelphia, and Washington D.C. will all likely see their coldest Thanksgiving morning in nearly a century.
New York may even see their coldest low temperature on Thanksgiving since weather records have been kept in New York’s Central Park.
New Yorkers will see low temperatures in the teens on Thanksgiving morning. On Thanksgiving in 1901 and 1876, the low got down to 19 degrees Fahrenheit. As of this morning the forecast low is hovering is for 17 degrees Fahrenheit, right before sunrise.
Boston won’t escape the cold either.
It hasn’t been forecast to be this cold on Thanksgiving since 1901 and 1872. Each of those years, the low temperature on Thanksgiving also got down to 19 degrees Fahrenheit.
And if the cold itself wasn’t enough, the wind chill will make it feel even colder.
In Boston, the high Thursday will struggle to make it to 20 degrees, with a 35 mph wind creating a wind chill of 5-10 below zero. Yikes.
In New York, gusty winds of up to 30 mph will lead to wind chills in the single digits for the parade.
Wind chill advisories are already posted for parts of Upstate New York, and New England, with Thanksgiving shaping up to be the coldest on record for many in the region.
Don’t expect the temperature to get above freezing all day long in the Northeast – except Washington, where it might reach a swampy 34 degrees Fahrenheit.
For more on the weather conditions across the country, this Thanksgiving weekend read about them by clicking here.
