Thanksgiving Week Weather Will Feel More Like Christmas Week: Brrr!

Early morning Black Friday is bad enough. Up here in Vermont, temperatures
will be near 0 Friday morning. No Black Friday sales for me, thanks!
It's not worth it.

As we head over the hill and through the woods, or something like that, to Thanksgiving feasts, we here in New England will feel like we're forgetting to bring the Christmas gifts.

That's because the week will have the wicked chill of deep winter, the kind you get around Christmas time, not the vaguely chilly but still reasonable air we're used to around Thanksgiving.

Plus, there will be small additions to the persistent early season snow cover, a snow cover that's not going away anytime soon.

Today will be the "hottest" day of the week, with temperatures in many valley locations actually sneaking a little above freezing for a time. It will still be ten degrees colder than normal for this time of year, but there you go. Enjoy today's "heat."

A sneaky but weak coastal storm will get going in southeastern New England tomorrow. It's no blockbuster, but still good for two to six inches of fresh powder across interior Massachusetts and Connecticut, southern New Hampshire and far southern Vermont. A couple favored locations could get up to eight inches in that neck of the woods.

Northern areas of New England could pick up an inch or two of fluff from some passing snow showers on Tuesday.

On Wednesday, it will be starting to turn colder yet as a strong Arctic cold front blusters in. Careful on the roads on that busy travel day: The cold front will be accompanied by snow showers that could easily slicken the roads and dump another one to three inches of snow on us.

Thanksgiving Day will be dry, but it will be one of the coldest Thanksgivings on record. Highs temperatures across most of Vermont and the rest of the North Country will only get to the teens, and lows that night will go down into the single digits either side of zero.

Which would be another of many good reasons not to go out to the Black Friday sales. Who the hell wants to wait outside in an intensely cold, dark, windy parking lot for big box stores to open? I'm sure some people do, but I'm staying away from that.

There are signs it will turn slighly warmer next weekend, but it won't be anything resembling an Indian Summer. It will just be less cold