Weather for Your Turkey Travel Day
Southeast US Radar, Image: NOAA (Image is OLD!)
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Thunderstorms are delaying travel in the Miami-Ft. Lauderdale area this Wednesday morning. The FAA’s website has all the latest travel delays across the country. Check it before you go to the airport. If the sphere on the map is green where you are flying, you are good to go. If not, click on the yellow or orange sphere, and it will tell you the amount of the delay and the reason for it.
Currently, there are also weather delays in New York, New Jersey, Philadelphia and D.C..
No delays in the Midwest so far, but with an arctic air mass advancing toward the Great Lakes region over the next two days, minor accumulations of lake effect snow are a possibility.
The previous link shows you another awesome graphic from USA Today explaining lake effect snow.
Lake Effect Snow Explainer, Image: NOAA
As you can see, it takes a delicate combination of cold air near the surface, a cold, straight wind blowing across a warmer body of water, and some high ground on the leeward side of the lake for lake effect snow to occur.
Forecasters in northern Michigan, and parts of Illinois, Ohio, Pennsylvania and New York will be in for some interesting weather this holiday weekend. Go to the GET YOUR LOCAL TV FORECAST! link on the right hand menu bar, find the city your in, or where you are traveling, and follow their forecast.
I hope you and your family have a Happy Thanksgiving.
-Dawn Brown
We always think of the Great Lakes with regard to lake effect snow. The weather pattern in October produced a threat of LES in Salt Lake City with the Great Salt Lake so much warmer than the incoming air mass. At the time the critical factor was wind, a wind of 10-15mph was optimal for the snow band to set up.