NBC also reported yesterday the cold in the East would be record-breaking for millions of people today.

nbcnews.com

They opined the cold would ground Macy’s balloons. (I don’t have a TV so I don’t know if that happened.)

Millions of Americans in the Northeast and Middle Atlantic states will wake up to the coldest Thanksgiving in more than a century, with high winds even threatening the iconic Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade, meteorologists said Wednesday.

The mercury in Philadelphia is expected to dip to a bone-chilling 29-degree high on Thursday, with similar shivering temperatures set for New York and Boston at 26 and 21 degrees, respectively, according to NBC meteorologist Kathryn Prociv.

29 is not “bone-chilling.” It is pretty cold for the East Coast, but we have several -15 or -20 days here every year I would trade for 29F.