A day after a tornado smashed through the Houston area, southerners were on guard Tuesday, Nov. 25, for more severe weather just as travel ramps up for the Thanksgiving holiday.
According to a forecast from the Storm Prediction Center, isolated severe storms are possible across parts of the Southeast/Deep South this morning into the early evening hours. "A couple tornadoes are possible in parts of eastern Mississippi and central Alabama," the center said in an online forecast.
The severe weather is part of a sprawling storm that's expected to spread travel havoc both Tuesday, Nov. 25, and into Wednesday, Nov. 26, the busiest travel day of the year.
"Widespread travel delays will mount across the United States in the days leading up to Thanksgiving with severe storms, thick fog, flooding rain and even a blizzard in the forecast across the country," said AccuWeather meteorologist Alex Sosnowski in an online forecast.
A record-setting 82 million people are expected to travel 50 miles or more from home during the Thanksgiving holiday period this year, according to the American Automobile Association.
