35 replies to this topic

[metfan4life]

This is becoming interesting. This storm has trended more south and colder with each run of the GFS. I also have noticed that there are a couple of strong highs to the north. The Euro also shows this storm but warmer than the GFS. Should be interesting to see how it evolves.

[icehater]

metfan4life, on Nov 16 2011, 12:00 PM, said:

This is becoming interesting. This storm has trended more south and colder with each run of the GFS. I also have noticed that there are a couple of strong highs to the north. The Euro also shows this storm but warmer than the GFS. Should be interesting to see how it evolves.

Let's hope for good weather for Thanksgiving. It's an all-American holiday indifferent to religion, too many people have plans and it's one of the biggest driving days of the year so all you need are bad road conditions for a bunch of accidents and injuries.

[lab94]

icehater, on Nov 16 2011, 01:57 PM, said:

Let's hope for good weather for Thanksgiving. It's an all-American holiday indifferent to religion, too many people have plans and it's one of the biggest driving days of the year so all you need are bad road conditions for a bunch of accidents and injuries.

Not really http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2011/11/l...drivers_as.html

[shark253]

icehater, on Nov 16 2011, 07:57 PM, said:

Let's hope for good weather for Thanksgiving. It's an all-American holiday indifferent to religion, too many people have plans and it's one of the biggest driving days of the year so all you need are bad road conditions for a bunch of accidents and injuries.

I agree...we need that holiday weekend to be dry.

[wishcast_hater]

icehater, on Nov 16 2011, 01:57 PM, said:

Let's hope for good weather for Thanksgiving. It's an all-American holiday indifferent to religion, too many people have plans and it's one of the biggest driving days of the year so all you need are bad road conditions for a bunch of accidents and injuries.

Originally it was to give thanks to GOD for His goodness and blessings but America has lost that realization. Not trying to hijack the thread or anything....im just saying.

[Virgaman]

JB tweeted and said its funny how he heard many say 60 degrees on Thanksgiving day when he believes there will be snow in nyc the day before Thanksgiving

[NittanyLion]

wishcast_hater, on Nov 17 2011, 08:19 AM, said:

Originally it was to give thanks to GOD for His goodness and blessings but America has lost that realization. Not trying to hijack the thread or anything....im just saying.

From Wikipedia:

In the United States, the modern Thanksgiving holiday tradition traces its origins to a 1621 celebration at Plymouth in present-day Massachusetts. There is also evidence for an earlier harvest celebration on the continent by Spanish explorers in Florida during 1565, as well as thanksgiving feasts in the Virginia Colony. The initial thanksgiving observance at Virginia in 1619 was prompted by the colonists' leaders on the anniversary of the settlement.[7] The 1621 Plymouth feast and thanksgiving was prompted by a good harvest. In later years, the tradition was continued by civil leaders such as Governor Bradford who planned a thanksgiving celebration and fast in 1623.[8][9][10] While initially, the Plymouth colony did not have enough food to feed half of the 102 colonists, the Wampanoag Native Americans helped the Pilgrims by providing seeds and teaching them to fish. The practice of holding an annual harvest festival like this did not become a regular affair in New England until the late 1660s.[11]

[wishcast_hater]

In addition to Wikipedia:....

Moving forward in time, the first authentic document of a “Thanksgiving Proclamation” is by George Washington, in which he suggested that a “Day of Publick Thanksgiving and Prayer” should be held on Thursday, November 26, 1789. The full original text of this proclamation, written in New York on October 3, 1789.

Washington’s attempt to institute a national Thanksgiving Day did not become accepted as an official national holiday for another seventy four years. Thanksgiving celebrations took place, but at various times in various regions. There was no unifying date or “movable feast” day that could be agreed on throughout all the states. The person who was most influential in getting a national day of Thanksgiving officially inaugurated was Sarah Josepha Hale (1788 – 1879). Hale, an editor and writer petitioned four presidents - Zachary Taylor, Millard Filmore, Franklin Pierce and James Buchanan – to persuade them to institute a national day of Thanksgiving.

As editor of the Ladies Book, Hale wrote in 1851:

“Thanks- giving Day is the national pledge of Christian faith in God acknowledging him as the dispenser of blessings .... The observance of the day has been gradually extending, and for a few years past efforts have been made to have a fixed day which will be universally observed throughout the country .... The last Thursday in November was selected as the day, on a whole, most appropriate."

On September 28, 1863, then aged 74, Sarah Josepha Hale wrote to Abraham Lincoln. She requested that the “day of our annual Thanksgiving made a National and fixed Union Festival... You may have observed that, for some years past, there has been an increasing interest felt in our land to have the Thanksgiving held on the same day, in all the States; it now needs National recognition and authoritive fixation, only, to become permanently, an American custom and institution.”

In 1863, America was in the midst of Civil War, but the notion of Thanksgiving was taken up by President Abraham Lincoln. His proclamation announcing the official inauguration of Thanksgiving Day. was delivered on October 3, 1863, the anniversary of George Washington’s proclamation. This was five weeks before he gave his famous Gettysburg Address.

[weathergeek87]

Now "God" has many meanings as there are many different religions through out the US.

[carribeanpirate]

NittanyLion, on Nov 17 2011, 04:32 PM, said:

From Wikipedia:

In the United States, the modern Thanksgiving holiday tradition traces its origins to a 1621 celebration at Plymouth in present-day Massachusetts. There is also evidence for an earlier harvest celebration on the continent by Spanish explorers in Florida during 1565, as well as thanksgiving feasts in the Virginia Colony. The initial thanksgiving observance at Virginia in 1619 was prompted by the colonists' leaders on the anniversary of the settlement.[7] The 1621 Plymouth feast and thanksgiving was prompted by a good harvest. In later years, the tradition was continued by civil leaders such as Governor Bradford who planned a thanksgiving celebration and fast in 1623.[8][9][10] While initially, the Plymouth colony did not have enough food to feed half of the 102 colonists, the Wampanoag Native Americans helped the Pilgrims by providing seeds and teaching them to fish. The practice of holding an annual harvest festival like this did not become a regular affair in New England until the late 1660s.[11]

What does Wiki say about the storm before Thanksgiving??

[FreezingDrizzle]

http://www.accuweather.com/blogs/news/stor...ing-weather.asp

[lab94]

Gotta love the 12z euro snow map

[FreezingDrizzle]

carribeanpirate, on Nov 17 2011, 03:20 PM, said:

What does Wiki say about the storm before Thanksgiving??

Funny.

[metfan4life]

DGEX

[metfan4life]

GFS went from a warm rainstorm on the 12z run to a miss to the south of NYC on the 18z run lol.

[Frank01]

quick update:

http://aeroweather.org/2011/11/17/pre-than...irst-guess-map/

[NittanyLion]

carribeanpirate, on Nov 17 2011, 03:20 PM, said:

What does Wiki say about the storm before Thanksgiving??

Quite a lot.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Appalac...f_November_1950

[satellite_eyes]

i remember having a slushy coating last year. I actually don't mind a cold rain on Thanksgiving though.

[metfan4life]

[robbbs]

lab94, on Nov 17 2011, 08:51 PM, said:

Gotta love the 12z euro snow map

Ok. I'm ready for spring already. The October snows which fell, and now the potential November snow, adds up to what would normally be a full winter's snowfall for many. Pretty remarkable given the calendar and even more so when considering that we've not even been in a favorable or winter type pattern. Our weather has definitely been extreme over the last few years.