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WeatherBell.com Chief Meteorologist Joe Bastardi on the weather across the country impacting Thanksgiving weekend travelers and shoppers.
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Well holiday weather could impact travel and shopping plants in some parts of the country here with his forecasts.
Is whether -- dot com chief meteorologist -- -- I call on the weather -- dovish starting.
-- first we gotta give you credit last time you hear you warned us about that October snowstorm before many people were taking it serious fatalism.
It would not surprise me if there is over a million people without power the end of this storm.
So in fact there's.
The fact there were two million people without power after that storm so.
What's your holiday forecast please let it be nice and remember also told -- was going be nice for the middle of November -- Alyeska well I think -- holiday overall is pretty good now Wednesday it is probably -- be travel problems over the northeast by the United States.
A lot of rain snow north of I ninety don't do not panic it's not gonna come down in New York City.
Boston could -- -- some snow Wednesday so we may have some travel problems there.
Once we get the Thanksgiving Day though it's kinda cold over the northeastern part of the United States.
But much of the country is in real good shape just not gonna be two -- across -- -- predictors.
Good day well for eating I think.
Yeah so well Minnesota don't realize you.
Yeah.
And -- you -- -- -- even -- -- -- -- haven't thought but Friday's above Black Friday looks good for shopping across much of the country.
The problem is as the weekend.
Goes on the weather deteriorates from west to east.
And there is going to be a big storm rolling into the central part of the country Saturday toward the East Coast on Sunday.
And on the backside of that storm is probably gonna be travel delays because of -- perhaps in the upper mid west been wraps even into the Ohio valley before the -- additional.
So important because often times when retailers miss the mark they often being blamed weather and take people don't wanna come out of their home life and then and that ends up eating into sales because often -- people don't.
Make up for the -- -- they decided to sit at home force -- this is a good sign for the holiday shopping season that will have a pretty clear Friday and then looking in it into the weekend also looking good as well the weekend.
Oh we get let's go to a lot of the country but it will be tiered -- Saturday and Sunday in the midwest and on into the east of Black Friday that crucial day.
It looks like it's gonna be the -- is not gonna give people up problems as this except maybe in the western part of the United States and then late in the day in the central -- Them walking around did not -- Carly to my coat mclarty's days.
I'm Philip cocky about alone.
Please Tellme is gonna go -- for at least.
Another six months.
I don't think -- -- as bad as last winner I've been hearing adjectives like brutal being thrown around everything else.
I think -- -- going to be colder than normal but it's not going to be in the same ballpark -- last December.
I've got an area greater than two degrees below normal but look at last December.
We had eight to ten below normal in the southeast it -- a -- December this is a more normal cold.
As far as in -- goes at it may be just enough so it's cold and up to put us all the holiday spirit and look at -- snow on Christmas seemed not to reiterate thing like that but.
I -- dig a bit colder than normal but nothing compared to last year.
So -- white Christmas already can we put to them for that now we yen will play a little early is -- literally all.
That is -- -- -- -- men don't be scared now is a high pressure job in this case have been a back up yeah all right thanks a lot don't have clarity differentiated all of.
