Dry weather by Black Friday optimal for high store traffic volumes
27 Nov '07
3 min read
Holiday Shopping Kicked Off On A Wintry Note Providing Strong Seasonal Demand. Significant Snowfall Was Recorded In The Rockies and Eastern Canada.
Weekend Review (24-25 November 2007): For the official start of the 2007 holiday shopping season, most of the U.S. and Canada experienced seasonably cold temperatures and generally dry conditions. This was a perfect combination for retailers selling all manner of cold weather items from winter apparel to heating products to cold weather consumables.
Wintry precipitation fell from the Prairies to Eastern Canada. In the U.S., a strong winter storm that produced heavy snowfall in the southern Rockies and the Texas Panhandle moved into the Mississippi Valley spreading heavy rains into much of the Southeast and northward into the Ohio Valley and Appalachians late in the weekend.
Seasonably cold temperatures were the trend across the Intermountain West into the Pacific Northwest. California and the Desert Southwest were warm and dry.
Last Week (week-ending 11/24/2007): The week began on a seasonably cold and gloomy note over a large area from the Mid-Atlantic across the entire U.S. Northern Tier coincident with a series of disturbances. While most locations experienced cold rains, many inland locations in New York, Pennsylvania and the Upper Midwest experienced measurable snows.
Canadian high pressure kept New England and much of eastern Canada cold and dry. Areasfrom the Plains to the West Coast were unseasonably warm. However, strong changes were on the way. Mid-week, a strong surge of Arctic air invaded the Plains and Prairies dropping temperatures an average of 25 to 30 degrees.
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