Holiday Travel Forecast: Potential Problem Areas For The New Year

West: How Many More Hot Days Until Relief Arrives?

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W​hether you're heading home after the holidays or heading on your first vacation of the new year, the busy holiday travel period continues, and weather may be a factor. For some, snow, rain, thunderstorms, fog, even a little ice could disrupt your plans.

Here's what you need to know in order to make the safest trip possible.

Thursday, Friday

• Northeast: As the low pressure system exits the Northeast, it will continue to cause snow for the Interior Northeast and strong winds across the region, including on the coast.
• S​outh: A few showers and thunderstorms are possible in coastal Texas and Louisiana.
• C​entral: A new system is organizing in the Midwest that will move eastward into the Ohio Valley by Friday, bringing snow and possible slick conditions.
• N​orthwest: The Northwest will continue to experience rain and mountain snow from the latest system to impact the region, and isolated flash flooding conditions are possible in northern California.

• Potential airport weather delays Thursday: New York (wind), Boston, Buffalo, Houston, St. Louis, Seattle
• P​otential airport weather delays Friday: Cleveland, Seattle, Portland

Jonathan Belles has been a graphics meteorologist and writer for weather.com for 8 years and also assists in the production of videos for The Weather Channel en español. His favorite weather is tropical weather, but also enjoys covering high-impact weather and news stories and winter storms. He's a two-time graduate of Florida State University and a proud graduate of St. Petersburg College.