PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Philadelphia and other communities around the state are gearing up for what could be the coldest Thanksgiving Day in over a century.

Trent Davis, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Mount Holly, New Jersey, says coldest Turkey Day on record for Philadelphia was 27 degrees in 1901.

He says the forecast high for Thursday in the city is 28 degrees.

Eric Horst, director of the Weather Info Center at Millersville University, says pretty much every city in Pennsylvania will be hovering near their record coldest temperatures.

He says it’s a “brutal shot” of Arctic cold, but the good thing is it will leave as fast as it arrives.

He says it will start to pull out Saturday and by Sunday, temperatures will rise into the 50s.

Locally, isolated snow showers are possible before 8 tonight, with wind gusts as high as 24 mph. Thanksgiving Day: will be sunny, with a high near 23. Northwest wind around 11 mph.

Friday will be sunny, with a high near 30.

On Saturday there’s a chance of rain, snow, and freezing rain before 10 a.m., then rain. High near 46.