Heavy snow and wind could slam the brakes on Thanksgiving travel.
Treacherous weather from coast-to-coast was complicating the commute for millions of Americans racing to their Thanksgiving gatherings on Wednesday.
Thanksgiving Eve is historically the busiest travel day of the year, and AAA said more than 55 million people were expected to pack roads, planes, trains and buses on Wednesday — the most since 2005. In total, 19 million people on Wednesday were under winter alerts from California to Michigan, 88 million people were under wind alerts from the Midwest to the Northeast, and 16 million people were under flash flood watches across the Southwest.In the West, a storm system called a bomb cyclone smashed into mountain areas of Oregon and Northern California overnight, with heavy snow and wind gusts as high as 100 mph accompanied by severe rain in lower-lying areas.
Meanwhile, on the East Coast, rain was forecast for New England on Wednesday and heavy wind gusts — potentially strong enough to ground balloons in the iconic Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade — were expected in the New York area on Thursday. Conditions were not looking much better in the middle part of the country: Heavy snow blanketed Colorado and most of the Plains, with some lingering snow forecast for Minnesota, Wisconsin and northern Michigan.The effects of the weather were far-reaching: In Minneapolis, which had received 9.2 inches of snow by noon, theLet our news meet your inbox. The news and stories that matters, delivered weekday mornings.
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