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News 12’s Samantha Crawford is in the Alert Center reporting on traffic conditions across the Hudson Valley.

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Well, tonight, the Hudson Valley is bracing for rain as we head into the weekend. So what do people need to expect as we get those plans underway? Addison that Nikita, no matter where people go over the course of the weekend or even if they stay home, be prepared before the weekend is done to deal with this system coming in through the Hudson Valley area. So you may be having to deal with batches of rain and gusty winds coming on by maybe about 20 to 40 MPH if not higher than that. Talking about the second half of Sunday overnight and into early Monday, there may also be some flood concerns as well where most recently we did see from the National Weather service, a flood watch up effect all across the Hudson Valley. Maybe seeing on average about 1 to 2, maybe all close to three inches of rain coming on in as you move on in from Sunday into Monday right there where some of those high rainfall totals 3.3 is possible in Newburgh. But I think most locations will trend under 32 to 3 inches or so in that range, but bottom line is, it's still gonna be wet. It's gonna be windy out there. So it's breaking towards that forecast as we go on in past Saturday into Sunday. Saturday is the pick of the week. It's gonna be gorgeous. Get outside and enjoy perhaps strap down some of those holiday lights. Now, Sunday morning, 7 a.m. we have temperatures in white plains. Around 48 degrees gusts are slowly starting to pick up out of a south westerly direction. 10 to 15 MPH. Sky showers start moving in closer towards the lunchtime hours as the temperatures move up towards the mid FF we'll be seeing gusts maybe 10 to 15, close to 20 MPH over through the rest of the day. It's on and off batches of moderate, possibly even heavy rain coming on in as it's continue to get warmer. Upper fifties, close to 60 degrees. Gusts are increasing 10 to 20 plus MPH, but they'll continue to go upward as we move on through the evening hours as well. 61 degrees is possible in White Plains. If we hit that, that would tie a record high over across in Brewster may be seeing a brief downpour coming on in from a possible isolated embedded thunderstorm in this line right there, slowly coming up from the southwest heading up towards the northeast direction, going past 7 to 8 o'clock hour, close to midnight. Still very mild, very muggy out there. We got winds gusting still 20 to 30 plus MPH and the cold for itself is approaching overnight. Look at the temperatures they drop from around 60 to around 40 degrees. As we're watching that cold air starting to push on in the winds have switched direction from the southwest to a northerly direction and we're starting to draw in that drier, colder air. So I'm not too concerned with a changeover coming on in for everybody to a little wintry mix of snow. But it's possible, especially in the Catskills in the higher elevations past Sunday into Monday morning, we watch drier conditions move on in throughout much of next week. Overnight temperatures in the twenties and the thirties, patchy fog will be possible in a few spots. Let's briefly look at that visibility forecast going on in towards Saturday morning. A few locations will have that visibly starting to go down as more moisture is pushed up this way, temperatures on the rise as well heading in towards that storm's arrival, Sunday afternoon.

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ALERT CENTER: Traffic conditions across the Hudson Valley

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more of you will soon start seeing images like this if you haven't already, thank you to our viewer paul Harrington for sharing this image with us up in Orange County, you can see his mailbox just completely covered in ice. This bush outside of his home, also completely covered in ice. And look at this tree branch here caked with ice and even the droplets have already frozen. And look at also these images over on our twitter page. This viewer sending us in this photo of again, a bush is covered in ice and I want to go over to this third image with you, let's take this fall So our viewers can really get a good sense of what we're seeing here. This viewer actually put a ruler out around this branch to see just how thick that ice was. And as you can see here, it's a quarter of an inch thick. And the reason why that is so concerning seeing that that measures a quarter of an inch is because state officials say we're likely going to see another quarter of an inch in the Hudson valley, meaning we are potentially going to see about a half an inch of ice. Take a listen to what the governor said about this earlier today, the challenge is is that yes, we have a magnificent crew of individuals who know how to salt the roads in advance to stop the ice from forming, but when the, when the first weather event is rain, it washes the salt off the roads and that creates a challenge. And not only is it a challenge on the roads, but of course when it comes to electricity and just people safety when driving, when it comes to trees. As you can see in this viewer photo, this tree branches broken off and luckily it's just a branch, but soon we might see larger trees come down. I know that we're already hearing reports about that throughout the state of new york. That could lead to not only power line issues but also land on cars or people that are outside for the latest minute to minute updates. Just head on over to our news told blog. As you can see we are updating this every single second. We've been uploading updates since last night and it's been constant. Our reporters or producers or meteorologists and our angers are giving you all the information you need to know to stay safe until this cold goes away. Hopefully sooner rather than later. Right, matt

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