Friday, November 21, 2025

Thanksgiving travel forecast: Scattered showers, turning colder and drier

 OVERVIEW: Early travel for the upcoming holiday will be favorable this weekend with high pressure in place, more abundant sunshine, and highs in the 50s. The week of Thanksgiving will feature scattered showers early in the week before trends turn cold by the holiday. A passing low pressure system Monday into Tuesday will be responsible for the rain, followed by the much colder air in its wake.

MONDAY: Widespread rain will start Monday, moving into Northern Illinois by the afternoon. Some pockets of steady showers will be possible locally Monday evening and Monday night. Any precipitation will fall as rain with surface temperatures in the 40s and 50s.

TUESDAY: The initial batch of rain will clear to the East Tuesday morning, but a trailing cold front may produce additional showers Tuesday afternoon. Again, temperatures will remain warm enough for rain as the precipitation type. Rain coverage will be much lower Tuesday than it will be Monday.

WEDNESDAY: Much colder air will filter in behind Tuesday's front, keeping high temperatures in the 30s and 40s areawide. But much of the moisture will have been pushed East by then, leading to drier conditions. The stalling low pressure system to the Northeast could produce some light rain and snow showers in Central Wisconsin and Michigan. The low pressure could stall out further Southwest, so keep an eye on trends heading through the week!

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