Thanksgiving Day celebration is an old American tradition and has been a national holiday since the Civil War era, but the date of the holiday during the past century has varied between November 20 and November 30.
Over the past 50 years in Nome, the average high temperature has been about 18, the average low 5 above.
Most of the Thanksgiving days have at least a little bit of new snow. Of course, there have been extremes.
Perhaps the stormiest Thanksgiving Day was 2003. Blizzard conditions were widespread along the coast. West of Elim in the morning peak winds 53 miles an hour.
At Nome, Thanksgiving has only rarely brought above freezing temperatures to the region. At Nome, the high of 37 degrees in 1943 stands as the mildest Thanksgiving Day temperature on record.
The coldest Thanksgiving was easily 1963, when the high temperature in Nome was just 10 below.
Snow cover is often fairly thin on Thanksgiving, but not always. Snow depths at Nome, more than 18 inches were reported on several Thanksgivings, most recently in 1997.
In contrast, Nome had no snow on the ground for Thanksgiving. Day 2001 and about once a decade, the snow cover is just patchy.
