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It’s days away from Thanksgiving and AAA is predicting it will be the third busiest of all-time. &nbsp;

AAA
 projects 54.6 million people will travel 50 miles or more from home 
this Thanksgiving, a 1.5% increase over 2021 and 98% of pre-pandemic 
volumes.&nbsp;

This year is projected to be the third busiest for Thanksgiving travel with only 2005 and 2019 seeing more travelers.&nbsp;

Nearly 49 million people are expected to drive, AAA says. &nbsp;

Air travel is up nearly 8% over 2021, with 4.5 million Americans flying to their Thanksgiving destination.

Meanwhile,
 more than 1.4 million travelers are going out of town for Thanksgiving 
by bus, train, or cruise ship, an increase of 23% from 2021 and 96% of 
the 2019 volume.&nbsp;

“Travel
 has nearly returned to normal and people are eager to see family and 
friends, making for a busy Thanksgiving holiday,” said Robert Sinclair, 
Jr., of AAA Northeast.&nbsp;

To
 avoid the most hectic times, AAA recommends traveling early in the 
morning on Wednesday or before 11 a.m. on Thanksgiving Day and avoiding 
travel between 4 p.m. to 8 p.m. Friday, Saturday, and Sunday of 
Thanksgiving week.&nbsp;


AAA predicts the Long Island Expressway westbound at Exit 44 to Exit 16 is expected to see an increase of 21% than typical travel volume. &nbsp;



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This year is projected to be the third busiest for Thanksgiving travel with only 2005 and 2019 seeing more travelers.  

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Ok. Ok. We've got some, uh, kind of ugly stuff moving in but the weekend's gonna be kind of warm most of it for most of it, which is the good takeaway from this is that we are looking for majority of the next few days to be fine. It's just really gonna be our Sunday afternoon and evening hours where we're gonna have to just be weather aware. So what we need to know we're looking at Friday. Not bad. It's gonna actually be a warmer start to a trend that's gonna get even better. By the time we get into our Saturday, Saturday, we're still on the dry end. Temperatures will start to warm into the middle fifties and then Sunday, we're going to be near 60 degrees if not at the 60 degree mark. But that's also when we're gonna be looking at the storm system to move in from a Sunday afternoon into our Monday morning. So around at dinner time or even early into our afternoon is when we're gonna be anticipating to see some rain from the storm system to move its way across to Long Island. Now, early parts of our Sunday, it's mainly going to be light rain. But as we get to the overnight transitioning into early Monday morning, heavy rainfall is going to start to develop for us just into around the five o'clock mark, which is going to lead into our early Monday morning. So we could see between 1 to 2 inches of rainfall by the time the event is over with and gusty winds from 30 to 40 MPH. The good news is though, once we're into our Monday afternoon, it looks to clear up for us, but until we get there overnight, it's partly cloudy cold conditions, temperatures just a degree or two below freezing or at the freezing point. Again, Friday and Saturday, you're not gonna need the heavy coats but still gonna be nice and chilly. At least until we get into our Saturday, quiet conditions heading into our Friday for us. Plenty of sunshine, cloud cover will move in for Saturday and then for Sunday into Monday, we're gonna be monitoring that storm system.

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AAA: 55 million people expected to travel for Thanksgiving holiday 

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holiday rush gonna get underway soon this year. Triple A expects one for the record books. But is inflation causing you to tweak your trip to the islands Caroline. Flynn joins us now from plainview Caroline. What are people saying? Well a lot of people are saying just that they are tweaking their holiday plans. One of the biggest reasons obviously what's going on behind me here. The traffic especially congestion expected on the Long Island Expressway eastbound between exit 13 and I believe it is 32 Wednesday through sunday. Those busy days it's expected to be heavy. Also we were just talking about thanksgiving dinner. The prices of things like turkeys that's causing people a headache. Reason to tweet but the biggest reason we've heard of all this morning we are at a gas station and it's that pain at the pump. The gas prices are just completely out of control. Forget it. My family's in philadelphia. I wouldn't go there, I wouldn't go there just because of the expense and the time definitely the high gas prices. It's always hard to try to balance. Do I go out? Do I stay in? You just can't afford it no matter what you do, no matter how you try to do it. The money's just not there. Alright more people are going to be taking airplanes, more people on busses, trains but the most people is always will be on the road. 49 million people expected especially between again that hot spot five day period Wednesday through Sunday and Gosh it's only likely going to be surpassed by 2005 and 2019. Again, in terms of the amount of people on the roads. Now, if you Plan to be one of them to avoid any delays and further headaches, a big thing you're gonna want to do, especially if you want to save a few bucks is plan ahead when it comes to the pump. No, right now the average long island is $3.76. Some people preparing today, if you're one of them and you're looking to get gas, anything below that sounds like it's going to be a good deal at the station right now. It's $3.85. If you don't that club, it always helps to save a few pennies. If you have one of those at your local gas station, the $3.85 again, that's the new york average. If you're going out of state, that might be your best bet of saving some money. The average there $3.66 and one more thing before I send it back to the studio. It has been really called out. A lot of people we've been seeing today out at the gas station checking their tires. So that is something you might want to do too because if that happens as you're driving, it's gonna be a big delay as well and we don't want that for anyone back to you

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