Early Look At Thanksgiving Forecast For Connecticut

Before you give thanks, you have to make a wish or two that the forecasters are wrong about Thanksgiving. They're saying that the weather will not be so nice for the holiday.

Re-surging cold air may spin up a storm along the East Coast and in Connecticut around Thanksgiving Day, according to AccuWeather. There is the potential for very cold air with a punishing wind to take root in our region during the long Thanksgiving weekend.

What could happen as a result is a "potent" storm system may trigger flight delays for early Thanksgiving travel Friday into the weekend in parts of the Midwest and East, according to The Weather Channel.

"If early indications are correct... gusty winds will sweep cold air from the northern Plains to the Gulf Coast, Appalachians and eventually the Atlantic Seaboard," AccuWeather Senior Meteorologist Brett Anderson said in a release.

The cold outbreak may last a couple of days, or perhaps right through the Thanksgiving weekend, AccuWeather Long-Range Meteorologist Evan Duffey said in the release. "In terms of an East Coast storm, we are not expecting powerhouse event, but rather more of the nuisance variety," Duffey said.

That storm will carry the potential for drenching rain along the Interstate-95 corridor from Washington, D.C., to Philadelphia, New Jersey and New York City around Thanksgiving Day.

Here is the current forecast for the days leading up to Thanksgiving weekend, according to weather.com:

• Wednesday: Sunny, high of 45
• Thursday: AM Rain, high of 50
• Friday: Sunny, high of 43
• Saturday: Rain, high of 49
• Sunday: AM Showers, high of 46
• Monday: Partly cloudy, high of 40
• Tuesday: Partly cloudy, high of 46
• Wednesday: Sunny, high of 40
• Thursday: AM Rain/Snow, high of 39
• Friday: Snow to rain, high of 41
• Saturday: Rain/Snow Showers, high of 45
• Sunday: Partly cloudy, high of 43.

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Tom Davis, Patch Staff contributed to this report.