Get Ready For The Coldest Long Island Thanksgiving in Decades

Thanksgiving on Long Island will likely be the coldest one in decades. An Arctic front moving through the area Wednesday evening will bring a chance of snow showers on the busiest travel day of the year.

The best chance for snow will be north and west of New York City, but a few brief snow showers are possible even on Long Island, mainly between 7 and 9 p.m., the National Weather Service says.

Snow squalls are already causing problems on the roads upstate. Check out the wild photo below shared on Twitter.

Thanksgiving will be dry and sunny, but you are not going to want to spend much time outside. The high on Thursday will be near 24 degrees. The current record low of 22 degrees for Nov. 22 at Long Island MacArthur Airport was set in 1987. We will likely break that Thursday with an expected low of 19 degrees.

With wind gusts topping 30 mph, wind chill temperatures will be in the single digits for most of the day Thursday.

The full forecast:

Wednesday Night- Scattered snow showers, mainly between 7pm and 8pm. Mostly cloudy, then gradually becoming mostly clear, with a low around 19. Wind chill values between 5 and 15. Breezy, with a northwest wind 15 to 20 mph, with gusts as high as 36 mph. Chance of precipitation is 30%.

Thanksgiving Day- Sunny, with a high near 24. Wind chill values between 5 and 10. Blustery, with a northwest wind 16 to 20 mph, with gusts as high as 33 mph.

Thursday Night- Clear, with a low around 13. North wind 5 to 10 mph.

Friday- Sunny, with a high near 35. North wind around 5 mph becoming light and variable in the morning.

Friday Night- Mostly clear, with a temperature rising to around 33 by 3am.

Saturday- A 30 percent chance of rain after noon. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 52.

Saturday Night- Rain. Low around 42. Chance of precipitation is 80%.

Sunday- Partly sunny, with a high near 53.

Sunday Night- A chance of drizzle after midnight. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 41.

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