Holiday Travel Forecast: Potential Problem Areas For The New Year
Whether you're heading home after the holidays or heading on your first vacation of the new year, the busy holiday travel period continues, and weather may be a factor. For some, snow, rain, thunderstorms, fog, even a little ice could disrupt your plans.
Here's what you need to know in order to make the safest trip possible.
Thursday, Friday
Northeast: As the low pressure system exits the Northeast, it will continue to cause snow for the Interior Northeast and strong winds across the region, including on the coast.
South: A few showers and thunderstorms are possible in coastal Texas and Louisiana.
Central: A new system is organizing in the Midwest that will move eastward into the Ohio Valley by Friday, bringing snow and possible slick conditions.
Northwest: The Northwest will continue to experience rain and mountain snow from the latest system to impact the region, and isolated flash flooding conditions are possible in northern California.
Potential airport weather delays Thursday: New York (wind), Boston, Buffalo, Houston, St. Louis, Seattle
Potential airport weather delays Friday: Cleveland, Seattle, Portland
Jonathan Belles has been a graphics meteorologist and writer for weather.com for 8 years and also assists in the production of videos for The Weather Channel en español. His favorite weather is tropical weather, but also enjoys covering high-impact weather and news stories and winter storms. He's a two-time graduate of Florida State University and a proud graduate of St. Petersburg College.
