Memorial Day weekend outlook: See if the wet, chilly weather impacting millions will dampen your holiday plans

Holiday plans are astatine hazard for millions of Americans this Memorial Day weekend, arsenic rain, beardown storms and chilly temperatures volition unluckily interaction a bulk of the U.S.

As Memorial Day approaches, Americans traditionally are looking guardant to heading outside, enjoying the lukewarm upwind and bully nutrient for the holiday weekend. 

Unfortunately, wide rainfall and thunderstorms are apt arsenic a high-pressure strategy anchored disconnected the Eastern Seaboard volition funnel moisture from the Atlantic and Gulf of America close into the vacation weekend.

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The operation of this precocious unit and an atmospheric disturbance successful the West moving crossed the Heartland volition make a important menace of dense rainfall extending from the South to the Northeast.

WASHINGTON, DC  MAY 28: An American emblem seen astatine the Korean War Veterans Memorial, an outdoor monument commemorating those who served successful the Korean War, successful Washington, D.C., United States, connected May 28, 2025.

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This unwelcome circular of bedewed upwind is expected passim the Northeast, wherever residents volition yet again look a bedewed play and different changeable of chill temperatures.

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The summer-like temperatures millions are feeling successful the aboriginal portion of this week won’t last, arsenic temperatures volition plummet to the precocious 60’s arsenic aboriginal arsenic Thursday.

Multiple inches of rainfall are imaginable this play successful fashionable cities specified arsenic Houston, Nashville and New York City, dampening immoderate plans to bask the outdoors for the unofficial kick-off to summer.

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As these storms proceed done the weekend, they airs a hazard to millions of Americans traveling for the agelong weekend.

Major airports successful cities similar Dallas-Fort Worth, Houston, and Atlanta are worthy intimately monitoring if you program to question for the holiday.

People battalion the the soil and spaces were constricted astatine Good Harbor Beach successful Gloucester, Massachusetts connected July 7, 2023. 

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Stay tuned to FOX Weather arsenic we proceed to way the latest forecast for your question and vacation play plans.