Good Monday, everybody. It’s Thanksgiving week and our weather pattern is in a hyper-active mood that will produce some pretty wild weather. We have 3 different storm systems to track through the holiday weekend and these could spawn a lot of wind and rain. The last of the bunch ushers in a winter pattern to start December.

Let’s take them one at a time and start with the first system arriving late Tuesday into early Wednesday. This comes as a strong low pressure works from the plains into the Great Lakes, dragging a cold front across Kentucky. Showers and thunderstorms will sweep eastward across the state, bringing the threat for high winds…

That’s going to bring near blizzard conditions for the plains and western Great Lakes. For us, the main threat appears to come from the high wind potential…

NAM

Hi-Res NAM

A weaker system tries to throw a few showers our way at some point Thanksgiving, but this doesn’t look like a big deal. The same cannot be said of the next storm system. This one will be a major plains storm that looks to cut due east into the Great Lakes this weekend. The end result for us looks to be rounds of rain, the potential for strong to severe storms, gusty winds and a quick switch to cold and snow.

The GFS gives us a good look at this scenario…

The Canadian has a similar look, but shows the potential for a lot more rain before winter arrives…

The ICON doesn’t go out as far as the other models, but it shows a lot more rain before the switch to winter…

Once all that goes through, we are likely to see a system or two dropping in from the northwest next week. These can be light snow makers around here as arctic shots show up…

We will update things later today. Have a good one and take care.