ATLANTA - Atlanta and north Georgia are heading into Thanksgiving weekend with unusually warm weather and a growing chance for rain, setting the tone for one of the busiest travel periods of the year.

Thanksgiving weekend in Atlanta

FOX 5 Storm Team meteorologist Alex Forbes said national outlooks show a wide stretch of above-average temperatures across the eastern half of the country during the Thanksgiving window.

"We are the bullseye," Forbes said. "From Maine down to Florida over to Montana, Oregon. Yeah, all expecting to be above average November 21st to the 25th."

Forbes said the warm pattern is tied to Gulf air that settled over the Southeast. "Somebody picked up the air mass over the Gulf and just plopped it on top of the southeastern United States," he said.

That warmth ext

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