A powerful winter storm packing heavy snow, rain and even severe weather is set to snarl Thanksgiving travel in the eastern half of the U.S. after first walloping the West with winter weather that led to celebrations at ski resorts ahead of the holiday.

More recently, a so-called bomb cyclone struck northern California in 2019, and the frigid New York City temperatures in 2018 (as cold as 19 degrees Fahrenheit) forced attendees at the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade to bundle up.

One of the strongest storms we've seen in Massachusetts in quite a while will bring rain and snow on Thanksgiving.The holiday will essentially be a washout with rain expected from mid-morning until late in the evening Thursday.