COLD TURKEY
The winter weather pattern establishing itself across the country this week is likely to be in place in the days leading up to Thanksgiving weekend. 
The busiest travel day of the year in the United States is the day before Thanksgiving, just two weeks from today. Despite the economic woes gripping the country, many families will still travel to spend time with their loved ones.
Planning a Thanksgiving trip, whether by road, rail or air, involves planning for the weather. The long-range forecast team at AccuWeather.com feel that the pattern that is establishing itself across the country this week and next will stay in place during Thanksgiving week.
According to Expert Senior Meteorologist John Kocet, that pattern at this time of year favors a north - south oscillation of the jet stream. "The up - down pattern lets the cold air empty out of Canada into the eastern half of the country. That doesn't mean the cold remains in place day in and day out."
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http://www.accuweather.com/mt-news-blogs.asp?blog=Lundberg&pgurl=/mtweb/content/Lundberg/archives/2008/11/remembering_the.aspAccording to Kocet, "Undulations in the jet stream will allow the cold to recede and return, but the overall pattern leading up to the holiday weekend looks like it will be colder from the Midwest to the East, while it will be dry and not all that cold in the West."
Despite increasingly cold weather spreading across the country over the past couple of weeks, the extreme cold air remains locked up in the Arctic. In the accompanying video, Expert Senior Meteorologist Bernie Rayno explains that the coldest air so far this season will escape northern Canada by the middle of next week.
Rayno says the cold air mass will hit the northern Plains before spreading into the East and South over the weekend before Thanksgiving. The cold shot will remain in place into the early half of Thanksgiving week.
There will be a cold shot moving out of Canada later this week; however, it will not be as bitter as the cold air arriving a week from now.
The Midwest Regional News story reports the surge of cold air and strong winds gusting as high as 40 mph will combine to send temperatures on Friday and Saturday plunging to or below freezing, with RealFeel® temperatures that will feel much colder.
The cold winds this weekend will spark lake-effect snow to the lee of the Great Lakes as the cold shot pushes through the Midwest and the East into the Deep South. The colder air by Sunday will reach as far south as central Florida.
The cold shot next week may be preceded by a storm developing ahead of the advancing front which could reach the Eastern Seaboard by the end of next week.
If the storm system develops it would be part of a series of storms that have rolled across the country since the beginning of November. The East Regional News story reports that the storm currently moving through the Southeast will speed into the Northeast on Thursday.
Rayno says it will be damp and cold on Thursday night in Foxboro, Mass., when the New England Patriots host the New York Jets in NFL football action at Gillette Stadium.
The system has dumped heavy rain on Texas and Louisiana over the past two days, with record daily rainfall recorded on Monday and Tuesday at Dallas - Ft. Worth International Airport.
Izvor: Accu Weather
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