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Super Typhoon Bavi to Impact Guam and the Mariana Islands; Excessive Rainfall and Flooding Threat in the Mid-Atlantic

Catastrophic Super Typhoon Bavi's eyewall has reached Rota and is expected to bring dangerous winds, heavy rainfall and storm surge to Guam, Rota, Tinian and Saipan. A Typhoon Warning remains in effect. Heavy to excessive rainfall will continue to bring a flooding threat from coastal Mid-Atlantic to southern New England through Monday. Read More >

Here is a look at Thanksgiving Weather History for Peoria and Springfield. 


Peoria Thanksgiving Weather History
 

Springfield Thanksgiving Weather History

 

While Thanksgiving had been celebrated unofficially in the United States for many years, it was on October 3, 1863 that President Abraham Lincoln officially declared the last Thursday of November as Thanksgiving Day. In 1941, Congress moved the date to the fourth Thursday of November (effective in 1942), in part to clear confusion caused by a Proclamation issued by President Franklin D. Roosevelt. The statistics compiled here use the last Thursday of November through 1941, and the fourth Thursday from 1942 to present.

 

Thanksgiving climate statistics for Peoria and Springfield