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RACINE COUNTY — Southeast Wisconsin should plan for a cold, blustery Thanksgiving holiday weekend, according to the National Weather Service.
As of late Tuesday morning, the NWS declared a wind advisory for the Racine and Kenosha areas for Wednesday from 6 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Andy Boxell, a NWS meteorologist, said Wednesday will bring strong wind gusts of 40-45 mph, along with a few snow showers.
“I would encourage folks to be mindful of the wind, especially if anybody’s driving a larger vehicle,” he said. “Especially anybody driving (on) a north-south roadway, that’s going to have that crosswind and that’ll make things a little bit bumpy.”
According to Boxell, most of Wednesday’s snow likely will be north of Racine County.
“If anybody’s traveling north — like you’re traveling north toward the Green Bay area, for instance — those snow showers are going to be much more widespread as you get up into central and northern Wisconsin,” he said.
Winds will slow to 25-30 mph on Thanksgiving Day, but temperatures will drop, Boxell said, with highs expected at 30-32 degrees Fahrenheit in Racine and Kenosha counties.
More snow is possible Friday into Saturday night. Boxell said the NWS could not give accumulation estimates as of Tuesday morning.
Who will be traveling this holiday weekend?
AAA predicted 1.65 million Wisconsin residents will travel at least 50 miles from home between Tuesday, Nov. 25, and Monday, Dec. 1.
This is a 2% increase from last year and a new record for Thanksgiving travel in the state, according to AAA.
About 1.45 million Wisconsinites will travel by car, a 1.7% increase from last year; 140,550 will travel by air; and more than 50,000 will travel by bus, train or cruise, AAA said.
Summer Hegranes, marketing coordinator at the Milwaukee Mitchell International Airport, said the airport expects a similar travel volume to last Thanksgiving, with about 20,000 passengers departing from and arriving to Milwaukee for the holiday.
She said the Milwaukee airport does not foresee significant delays over the holiday weekend.
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