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Thanksgiving in New Jersey will be wet and rainy, but the state will be spared the impacts of a major winter storm affecting the midwestern United States.
Travelers should pack an umbrella and if they’re driving, change the wiper blades, with weather forecasters predicting a chilly and rainy day for much of Thursday.
As the National Weather Service’s New Jersey forecast office noted, “precipitation will arrive west to east earlyThursday morning and becoming a solid shield of rain for the first half of your Thanksgiving holiday.”
While clouds will start gathering Wednesday night, the silver lining is New Jersey will be spared from a major snowstorm that will brush past the state but affect interior sections of New York state and New England.
Those going to the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day parade should bundle up and bring rain gear, with temperatures in the 40s with rain and wind that can make it feel like the upper 30s with wind gusts at 5 mph, when the parade starts at 8:30 a.m., according to AccuWeather. It will also be cloudy and rainy in Philadelphia for the city’s annual holiday parade.
New Jersey is in for a rainy holiday with highs in the low 50-degree range, except in the northwestern part of the state, where temperatures are predicted to be stuck in the 40s, the National Weather Service said.
High-elevation areas in northwestern New Jersey into the Poconos in northeastern Pennsylvania could see a wintry mix of snow and rain, and forecasters said the Poconos Plateau could get 1 or 2 inches of accumulating snow, depending on the track of the storm.
That precipitation is part of a larger storm that could dump snow from Rockies in Colorado to the Appalachian Mountains in the east, affecting both air and highway travel.
If the storm becomes significantly strong, it could track well to the north and deliver accumulating snow to portions of the Midwest and the eastern Great Lakes region, according to AccuWeather. Currently, AccuWeather meteorologists are predicting a well-organized but quick-moving storm, which is still enough to bring a swath of accumulating snow from the Midwest to northern New England.
Rain is predicted to taper off in New Jersey on Thursday night, leaving a party cloudy evening with a high around 32 degrees.
Black Friday shoppers will have a sunny day with a high near 48 and winds 5 to 10 mph for bargain hunting. A sunny but cold Saturday and Sunday are predicted with temperatures hovering in the upper 30s to low 40s, the National Weather Service said.
New Jersey can expect several days of cold and dry weather early next week, with high temperatures running 10 to 15 degrees below normal.
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NJ Advance Media staff writer Len Melisurgo contributed to this report.
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