ITHACA, N.Y. – Thanksgiving shows up later than usual on the calendar this year, raising the odds it’ll be a snow-blowin’ holiday.

The Northeast Regional Climate Center at Cornell University predicted the likelihood of cities having an inch of snow on the ground on the morning of Nov. 28.

Topping the list with a 67 percent probability of snow on Thanksgiving was Caribou, Maine – the perennial front-runner in the snowiest-city derby.

Next was Burlington, Vt., at 34 percent and Concord, N.H., at 29 percent.

Climatologist Keith Eggleston based his predictions on a 30-year average of Northeast snowfall from 1971 to 2000.

Thanksgiving in 2002 falls on the latest date allowed by U.S. law – the fourth Thursday in November.