Travel

For those of you traveling today to see the fam for Thanksgiving (or getting away from them), you'll be fine weather-wise if you're heading West, but brace yourself if home is in the Midwest or on the East Coast. According to Weather, there will be showers in the Midwest from the Corn Belt to the Great Lakes region and in Upstate NY and Pennsylvania .

Well that's unusual. The United Arab Emirates - a hot, wealthy area known for building elaborate indoor skiing complexes - recently experienced its first real snowfall in a generation. The northern emirate of Ras al Khaimah reported that a five kilometer area in its Jebel Jais mountain range was blanketed with ten centimeters of snow on Friday, a situation so rare that the local dialect doesn't even have a word for it.

Visitors to the UAE shouldn't hold out any hope for further flurries, though. Temperatures are above freezing once again in the mountains, and so hot on the coast that they're building an air-conditioned beach .