Travel could prove challenging and the best seats for the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade may be in your living room as storms threaten to bring chaos to much of the nation during the long holiday weekend.

Wisconsinites traveling for Thanksgiving might run into small amounts of snow in the southern half of the state, though the forecast will become more certain later in the week.

Saturday will be mild and dry with daytime high temperatures above average in the 60s. A pattern change arrives for the second half of the weekend.

Forecasters are increasingly calling for a cold, soggy Thanksgiving week as west-to-east winter-pattern storms continued to roll across the continental landscape.

National Weather Service forecasters warned Saturday that "messy" weather may impact Thanksgiving travel in the eastern half of the United States, including the potential for the coldest temperatures this season.

Howling winds, cold temperatures and even the chance of heavy snow could be in store for many Americans across the country as they gather for their Thanksgiving feasts next week. Forecasters said there is a risk of "unsettled weather" across much of the country over the holiday from an area of low pressure in the mid-levels of the atmosphere,