As you make your way over the river and through the woods to Grandmother's house, you better bundle up and have a winter preparedness kit in your car.

That Thanksgiving weather forecast is looking cold. Leading up to the busiest travel day of the year, some snow will impact the northern plains. On the WHOW Morning Show Tuesday, Ed Shimon at the National Weather Service in Lincoln told Regional Radio that snow shouldn't have too much of an impact on central Illinois.

According to Shimon, some cold air up north is going to shift down to the midwest creating some very, very cold air that will be here to stay for a while.

The cold air is going to be here for the football championship games this Friday and Saturday in Normal. We'll have more on that with Shimon later this week on Regional Radio.