There are certain things you can count on every Thanksgiving, like the parade, football games on TV and leftovers, but you definitely can't expect the same type of weather each year.

In the past few years, we have seen temperatures on Thanksgiving that have ranked among the hottest and the coldest. Let’s start our look back on last year’s weather on turkey day. 

Last year, our Thanksgiving was cool and dry. Temperatures were in the 50s. Three years ago, Thanksgiving 2020 brought us very warm weather. The high temperature was 65 degrees. That makes it the third warmest Thanksgiving in over 150 years for New York City.

The average high temperature is near 50 degrees.

Many welcomed the mild weather, as many people moved their holiday meal outdoors because of COVID-19 concerns.

In 2018, we saw the other side of the temperature extremes. Parade-goers were shivering on the city streets as temperatures were frigid. 

On Thanksgiving 2018, we saw a low of 17 degrees and a high of just 28 degrees. It was the fourth coldest Thanksgiving on record for the city.

Despite it being cold enough for snow, there wasn't any. The last Thanksgiving with snow was in 2014, when a trace of snow fell. The snowiest Thanksgiving ever was in 1989, when 4.4 inches of snow fell. 

In terms of rain, it's been wet with showers on four of the last ten turkey days. The record for the wettest Thanksgiving was in 2006, when 1.72 inches of rain fell.

Happy Thanksgiving.

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