A blast of cold air will bring one of the coldest Thanksgivings on record for some folk up in Yankee Land. You folk try and stay warm.
A strong area of high pressure from the Arctic Circle will descend across Canada and into the Northeast, sending temperatures plummeting toward levels more common on New Year’s Day, not Thanksgiving Day.
High temperatures on Thanksgiving could be close to the coldest on record no matter what day of the month the holiday was celebrated. (Nov. 22, Nov. 24, Nov. 26, etc.).
New York City has only had three Thanksgivings dating to 1870 when the high temperature failed to rise out of the 20s, according to National Weather Service statistics. The coldest was a high of 26 degrees on Nov. 28, 1901.
Forecast highs Thursday could be near that all-time record-coldest high set almost 117 years ago.