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Early Thanksgiving vacation question forecast
With conscionable a week to spell earlier 1 of the busiest question periods of the year, the Thanksgiving forecast is opening to travel into focus. Long-range guidance indicates that a ample tempest strategy whitethorn determination crossed the Plains and Central US starring up-to oregon connected Thanksgiving Day. FOX Weather Meteorologist Haley Meier has a preview.
A record-breaking 81.8 cardinal Americans are expected to travel astatine slightest 50 miles for Thanksgiving, according to question institution AAA, a 1.6 cardinal idiosyncratic summation implicit past year.
While the specifics of the vacation week forecast are inactive coming into focus, the FOX Forecast Center said aboriginal long-range guidance indicates the imaginable for storms crossed the cardinal U.S. starring up to and connected Thanksgiving Day.
Storms are expected to make successful the South connected Monday and determination into the mid-Atlantic and Northeast by Tuesday.
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AAA noted that Thanksgiving is the busiest vacation successful presumption of travel.
Some 73 cardinal are expected to thrust to their Thanksgiving destination, making up 90% of each holiday travelers.
Meanwhile, immoderate six cardinal are expected to question by plane, a 2% summation from past year, contempt the caller authorities shutdown.
AAA reports that question by bus, obstruction oregon cruise has besides accrued implicit past year. The institution defines the Thanksgiving question play arsenic the dates from Tuesday, Nov. 25 to Monday, Dec. 1.
Storms are expected crossed parts of the cardinal U.S. starring up to and connected Thanksgiving Day.
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Florida tops the database of AAA's home Thanksgiving question destinations this year, with Orlando, Fort Lauderdale and Miami taking the apical 3 spots respectively.
According to the FOX Forecast Center, storms are expected crossed the Southeast adjacent Monday and Tuesday, with conditions drying retired by mid-week, successful clip for Thanksgiving Day itself.
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New York and California are besides immoderate of the astir fashionable Thanksgiving destinations and some are besides expected to beryllium adust for Thanksgiving.
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FILE - Traffic moves on Interstate 80 successful Emeryville, California, US, connected Wednesday, Nov. 27, 2024. AAA projects 79.9 cardinal travelers volition caput 50 miles oregon much from location implicit the Thanksgiving vacation question period. (Photographer: David Paul Morris/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
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FILE - Travelers hold successful enactment astatine a Transportation Security Administration (TSA) checkpoint astatine Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport (DFW) successful Dallas, Texas, US, connected Monday, Oct. 20, 2025. US aerial question is starting to amusement signs of strain arsenic lawmakers stay divided implicit a authorities shutdown that has stretched into its 3rd week. (Photographer: Shelby Tauber/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
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FILE - NEW YORK - NOVEMBER 27: Passengers enactment up astatine the gross for an Amtrak bid connected the time earlier the Thanksgiving vacation play November 27, 2002 successful New York City. Airline and bid employees are preparing for 1 of the busiest question weekends of the year. ((Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images))
Traffic analytics institution INRIX, cited by AAA, noted that the afternoons of Tuesday, Nov. 25 and Wednesday, Nov. 26, are expected to beryllium the astir congested periods connected the road.
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