It'll be a dry and warm Monday with highs in the upper 70s and low 80s. We'll see a few overnight showers going into Tuesday.

Snow is headed to the Midwest and the West ahead of Thanksgiving, while rain will target the East Coast on Thanksgiving Day.

Forecasters are increasingly calling for a cold, soggy Thanksgiving week as west-to-east winter-pattern storms continued to roll across the continental landscape.

Turkey pardons can be traced back to President Abraham Lincoln in 1863. Historians claim he spared a turkey's life after his son, Tad, befriended it. But yearly pardoning became an "official" tradition under George H W Bush, when the former president pardoned a turkey in 1989 as animal-rights activists protested nearby.