By Holly Yan and Judson Jones, CNN
Updated 3:03 PM ET, Tue November 26, 2019
(CNN)You know it’s bad when forecasters urge people to avoid travel before Thanksgiving.Just in time for the busiest travel days of the year, 21 million people are now under some kind of winter weather advisory.
“A historically strong storm in the West could bring hurricane-force wind gusts, while another powerful storm spreads snow and wind from the Rockies to the Great Lakes,” CNN meteorologist Dave Hennen said Tuesday morning.”Impacts from the storms will spread over 2,000 miles from California to Michigan today.”
Over the next few days, fierce winds from New Mexico to New York could cause power outages and even ground the famous balloons in the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade.
The West Coast: You might want to stay in
A dangerous storm is heading toward southwest Oregon and northwest California, the National Weather Service Weather Prediction Center said.”Avoid travel on Tuesday & Wednesday if possible,” forecasters tweeted.
A dangerous storm is heading towards southwest Oregon and northwest California Tuesday and Wednesday, in the run up to Thanksgiving. Prepare now for possible impacts.
Southwest Oregon could face wind gusts up to 70 to 80 mph. To put that in perspective, a storm becomes a hurricane when sustained winds reach 74 mph.Parts of the Pacific Northwest could face a bomb cyclone, a type of rapidly strengthening storm.
Even in Southern California, the mountains outside Los Angeles could get a foot of snow, Hennen said.Other parts of California can expect a soggy Thanksgiving week, with 11 million people under flash flood watches.