Widespread impacts from midweek storm
A pre-thanksgiving storm system will create a travel nightmare from Tuesday Night through Wednesday, providing a myriad of threats up and down the east coast. Before we dive into the details of the storm system, what’s causing it to occur, and what you can expect in our area, we can lay out a few things we know as fact as of Tuesday morning. First, there will be significant travel delays on Wednesday. If you’re driving, flying, or using some other form of travel in the Mid-Atlantic or Northeast US, expect delays…likely significant. Second, Thanksgiving day itself won’t be all that bad. So once you make it where you need to be, the weather for actual Turkey Day looks to be fairly pleasant, albeit a bit cold. In our post below, we break down the storm system and what you can expect from it.
Visible satellite imagery from Tuesday morning, showing a significant storm system forming in the Southeast US.
What’s the deal, how is this storm forming?
Two pieces of energy in the jet stream across the Central and Eastern United States will phase on Wednesday, essentially very close to our forecast area. A low pressure area will develop from the Southeast States northeastward into New England. As it does so, warm air will stream up the Eastern Seaboard — as will significant amounts of precipitation in association with a strong low level jet and moisture transport. The low pressure system will then rapidly deepen as it moves to our north through New England and into Eastern Canada.