Snow Could Impact Post-Thanksgiving Travel On Long Island

LONG ISLAND, NY — The weather for holiday traveling Wednesday and Thanksgiving itself is about as good as you can expect this time of year. If you are hitting the road Sunday, though, you may want to do it earlier in the day. Forecasters are watching a low pressure system that could bring the first snowflakes of the season to Long Island.

"There is the potential for a light rain/snow to snow event," the National Weather Service says of Sunday night into Monday.

There's still lots of turkey and leftovers to be consumed before Sunday rolls around, though, and snow is far from certain.

Whether it snows and accumulates or not in the I-95 corridor of the Northeast all depends on the track and last-minute strength of a clipper storm which was barely a tiny ripple in the jet stream over the northern Pacific Ocean as of Wednesday, AccuWeather says.

The full forecast:

Wednesday Night- Partly cloudy, with a low around 32. West wind 3 to 6 mph.

Thanksgiving Day- Mostly sunny, with a high near 54. West wind 5 to 10 mph.

Thursday Night- Showers likely after 1am. Increasing clouds, with a low around 39. West wind around 7 mph. Chance of precipitation is 60%. New precipitation amounts of less than a tenth of an inch possible.

Friday- A 50 percent chance of showers, mainly before 1pm. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 49. Breezy, with a west wind 9 to 14 mph increasing to 17 to 22 mph in the afternoon. Winds could gust as high as 33 mph.

Friday Night- Partly cloudy, with a low around 29. Breezy.

Saturday- Sunny, with a high near 42. Breezy.

Saturday Night- Partly cloudy, with a low around 27.

Sunday- Partly sunny, with a high near 43.

Sunday Night- A chance of rain and snow before 1am, then a chance of snow. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 30. Chance of precipitation is 30%.

Monday- Mostly cloudy, with a high near 44.