Good Wednesday, everyone. The “Planes, Trains and Automobiles” post has become one of the great traditions here on KWC. On this busiest travel day of the year, it’s the perfect time to pay tribute to one of my all time favorite movies. This is a classic and I recommend you checking it out, if you haven’t seen it.

Here’s a little clip to get ya started…

Let’s get to the weather part of the program…

Rain is rolling from west to east across the state today and this could be heavy across the western half of the state. That’s where more than 1″ of rain may fall. That rain may even start out as a touch of sleet across the north early today. The farther east you live, the more dry weather you will see until this evening…

Winds will be a little gusty with temps mainly in the 50s for your travel plans.

Thanksgiving Day will feature a lot of low clouds with a leftover shower or sprinkle in the central and east. Temps range from the upper 40s to mid 50s across the region.

A weak cold front drops in here for Black Friday into Saturday. Additional clouds and gusty winds will be with us and I can’t rule out a light shower in the north and east. The core of the cold goes to our northeast, but a northwesterly flow should keep our temps on the chilly side…

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From there, we focus on a MASSIVE storm system developing in the plains on Sunday. That system is likely to bring a lot of heavy rain and wind to our region late Sunday night through early Tuesday…

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That kind of setup can bring several inches of rain to parts of the Ohio and Tennessee Valleys. It would be terribly ironic to go from drought to flooding, but that’s something we will need to watch for.

Cold air surges in behind that as we get ready to close the door on November. There could be another system swinging through the base of the trough soon thereafter. That could be more of a winter weather maker.

The Ensembles for early December continue to look cold across the country…

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You can CLEARLY see how warm Canada gets as a massive block gets established. That’s a heck of a look, so let’s see exactly what it can deliver to us in terms of winter weather.

I will have another update later today. Safe travels and remember one thing… THOSE AREN’T PILLOWS!!!! 🙂

Take care.