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As we age, it’s important to stay active. We can do that by working out our legs, our balance and our hands. 

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123NJweather_2023-12-03-06-30-42

Now gonna head to weather Hilda. I know it was Misty this morning. So is that like what today is gonna be like all day? Yes and not all day, I would say for the large portion of the day, especially the day part, you know, I see a lot of the showers slowly gradually exiting right around three and four o'clock. So, you know, we're gonna deal with all this wet weather in the beginning of the day. So if you do have any outdoor plans, just make sure that you grab that trusted umbrella. Uh the ways be super active, but it could be gusty at times and we're noticing the fifties. So, Newark 5152 Clifton, 50 degrees New Brunswick 51. So it's definitely gonna be that kind of like that moody, almost like Adele vibes type of day, that cozy weather that you wanna stay inside for um a light to moderate rain into this afternoon could be expected. Now, tomorrow and Wednesday throughout Wednesday, um we are expecting things to cool down a bit and we are trending dry and there is the potential here potential. Um As we continue to watch a wintery approach with some snow flakes into the mix. Wednesday, Thursday. That'll be interesting to see if it actually comes to fruition and to life with the colder temperatures and the moisture in place. We definitely need those two components. The moisture is definitely here. The rains are going to be, um, here heading into the afternoon time frame slowly taper down. But during that time frame too, we'll notice that the heaviest rain also falls between 10 and three o'clock this afternoon by three and four, we'll notice the showers exiting. We're left with just the cloudier feel and the gray skies to contend with eventually and gradual clearing into the overnight. It's pretty widespread system but there are light showers. Um, all in all some heavier rain pockets could be expected. Um, later this morning, go right around Atlantic City. It points south of Belmar as well. Nine o'clock. It kind of just stays kind of just focused more in that southern region. But of course, notice what happens as we head into 12 o'clock, we kind of almost get clipped northwestern portions of the state for the heaviest rain. And by one o'clock, we look really good, some very light showers heading into three and four. But uh overall a nice picture here with the showers exiting a little bit sooner than anticipated. So it's not, um, truly, um, going to be long lasting at all, gradual clearing when it comes to those clouds as we say good morning to Monday and drier feels all in all. So we're not expecting these showers to truly impact by all means, but by any means, rather your Monday, by Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, we notice the temperature is slowly falling back down, making it feel much more December like.

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Brooklyn

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And storm watch team. Meteorologist, Alex Calamia, Alex. If folks are going out and about today for any of those winter activities, it looks like the rain is going to stop at some point. Right. Yeah. You know, I mean, but it might not be until after the day ends in a sense because sun sets before 430 now and I don't really see us getting a big break from the rain until the evening time. This is what it looks like. Right now in midtown, it's a light rain. You might actually be able to head outside without even using the umbrella. I personally have a rain jacket because I think that's kind of your best bet. This evening, we still have some sprinkles, but we are dry for a work week. I mean, I don't want to talk about the work week on a Sunday morning, but if you're looking for something positive, I've got that for you in the 10 day. Here's 9 a.m. soaker, here's lunch time, still dealing with at least light showers. You see the green is a lighter shade here so it's not as widespread. It's not as heavy of a rain. But we still have some rain at four o'clock again. It's not absolutely pouring, but it's light mist, gloomy, kind of just, you know, not good weather, but it's not going to be anything really significant as far as rainfall totals. They're very limited. So we're maybe looking at half of an inch of rain when it's all said and done. Monday morning. Lots of sunshine. Beautiful start to the day and then the clouds push in Monday afternoon and we'll have cooler temperatures. By Tuesday. We're in the upper forties now. We're in the low fifties for highs today. Not a big jump in temperature. East breeze coming in. It feels really chilly tonight. Not bad. We're in the forties again. We do have sunshine by Monday morning. So a good feel as you're getting, the kids ready for school are heading out to work. We do hit mid ff on Monday and again, no rain after today for the whole work week. So that's something to be happy about, but it will get cold Tuesday and Wednesday and Thursday too, by the way, will feel like it is in the thirties.

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Westchester

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Day, we see the lights blinking there on the bridge. Is this gonna stick around? Yeah, unfortunately, we are looking for the foggy and cloudiness to stick around at least until we get to the early parts of tonight. But the good news is the rain in itself, folks is going to start to dissipate as we get closer towards the dinner time hours. So this is what we got going on for us on our surface man picking up where we left off again, the low pressure system which has just been funneling plenty of shower activity throughout the course of the day. Luckily, this our activity in itself though has been mainly light. And now as we get into the rest of this evening, we are looking for that rain to start to pretty much clear up. But towards Yonkers in areas like Westchester and Rockland County, some spots could see some isolated showers and even parts of the northern areas of Ulster and Duchess County. Again, you might see a couple of straight showers, but you're not necessarily gonna need that umbrella or Reindeer getting into the rest of this evening if you're going to be out Now, we've seen close to about three quarters of an inch of rainfall for parts of Westchester County. But many of us saw less than about a half of an inch from this latest event. Now, once the rain is done though, once we get to tonight, we are expecting fog to take over once again, which is gonna be lowering visibility heading into our Monday. So just be mindful that we are looking for areas of fog to start off for Monday. But until then we are looking at cloudy for the rest of this evening and steady temperatures into the forties over towards the uh New Rochelle area. So looking at our future cast, what we got again going into tonight's might see a couple of stray showers, northern parts of parts of Ulster County might even get a bit of some heavier rainfall. But again, once we get closer to around 10 o'clock, things are looking to dry out for us heading into Monday, we are looking for more sunshine. Some clouds will build once we get into our Monday afternoon as temperatures will be near 50 degrees as we roll into around three o'clock. Otherwise not expecting a whole lot more in terms of rain, but be prepared for breezy and mild for Monday. But the forties will return once again a bit on a chillier end from Tuesday into much of next week, near 40 in the upper thirties. By the time we get to Hanukkah and then we will warm back up next weekend. All right, Julian, thank you for that weather.

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Long Island

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And things are a little bit improved out there. We do have, uh, that steady rain finally becoming a little bit more scattered, a little bit lighter shower activity as we close off the day and move into the darker parts of the evening. So four or five o'clock, not as much activity out there, but there is still some mist. There's definitely a pretty steady east breeze all the way through midnight. So don't be surprised if there's like spritzes and drizzle until about midnight or so. Then the wind shifts west. It pushes all of that gross weather out for the Monday morning commute. You are dry, you're sunny and temperatures are in the forties. It's sunny until lunch on Monday and then we get into clouds again, but no rain this time, we still have that west wind. So it's a little too dry for rain. Temperatures are around the low fifties, which is pretty good. But then we start to get a north wind and by Tuesday we are in the thirties in the morning. That's about right for this time of the year, we're gonna continue to drop. Those temperatures are going to be a lot cooler by Wednesday and Thursday, Tuesday afternoon. We're only in the low to mid forties and we have some clouds. I think that's gonna be kind of the pattern for the whole work week. It looks like that. We have sunshine in the morning clouds in the afternoon, but there is no rain in the forecast after today. So we have still a pretty decent chance of passing a shower or two in the evening because a much lighter shower at this point, there's no heavy rain in the forecast for the rest of today and we're done with the rain for the whole entire work week. Let's talk about the work week. We're expecting 45 for a high on Tuesday, 42 Wednesday and even colder Thursday, 41. Now, if you remember last week, we were in the thirties for highs some days. So this is an improvement for sure, but it is still gonna be chilly. You'll still need the heavy winter jacket, especially in the morning. We move into the next weekend and then comes the fifties. We are not done yet with some of that milder weather.

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Hudson Valley

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Bronx

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Moving out for tonight. It's a little bit better than it was earlier. Not quite as steady. One thing I want to show you though, there's a couple of lightning strikes here near ground, so a little of instability is around our area wouldn't be surprised if we do see a couple more downpours, but a lot of that is now moving east of us. So for tonight, count on fog, count on mist, drizzle some rain. It's very damp tonight in Stanford. But overnight past midnight, this is where we start to see some changes. The sky will clear more as some drier air comes in because winds will wrap around to the west and that's what will dry us out. A little breezy for the morning temperature starting out in the forties. For most of us, only thirties will be northern Litchfield County and then going throughout Monday, temperatures are mild again, near 50 degrees or better, more sun early, more clouds in the afternoon, but the clouds won't bring any rain or snow. So that's good news there. In fact, it's going to be very dry this week. There are a couple of changes to Tuesday and Wednesday's forecast temperatures are going to be a lot colder until next weekend. And that's a look at your local weather.

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1017FitnessFourJointsMuscles_2023-10-17-09-53-36

Fitness in Four: Work your joints and muscles at the same time

Time now for our fitness in four. And as we age, not us, most people as we age, it's important to stay active and you can do that by walking, working your legs, your balance and also your hands. That's right. I've got a lesson on how important all of that is. Take a look right now. We're working on four different components that will actually really help us as we age. So talk to me for a little bit about, obviously, this is a squad, but why are we doing it? So squats are important for just full body mobility. Um, they're also something anybody can do. Right. A lot of Americans just aren't hitting their weekly exercise guidelines and a squat is something you don't need much equipment for. I've got a kettlebell here. But yeah, and I'm doing nothing at all. Exactly. And that's really so important, you know, to be able to get out of your chair unassisted, things like that. It's the movement I think applies most to our daily life. So it's really important just to have a good foundation with squats. Ok. So what's the next thing we're gonna work on with dumbbells? Right. Yeah, dumbbells or weights, any kind of weight or without. Ok, I'll grab, moving or hinging at the hips is super important. Ok. We want to have a good movement of the torso kind of coming forward so that we can stretch out the backside. Uh, so we can just basically kind of open up our hips a little bit. Right. When we talk about, when we talk about, I'm losing my breath here. When we talk about moving your hips. A lot of people are seated a lot throughout the day and this is something that really opens up the hips. Ok? Something we wanna work out. Um Now also really important to people is grip strength. You think about trying to open up a can or whatever the case may be really keeping that mobility in our hands. But part of that is holding a wave, right? Yes, grip strength is super important too because as we age, it's important to just be able to hold on to things really. Well, sure, a lot of the injuries people sustain when they get older are falling injuries, right? So it's important to be able to grab onto something if you lose your balance is super important. So now a way that we can also work on our balance would be something like a farmer's carry or a walk. Yeah. Yeah. So if you've got some weight like the ones we were just using, you can just take a walk with that weight in your hand, you could hold one, you could hold both, just go for a little stroll about 30 seconds. Ok. So even just walking in your house, but if you do only one weight that's gonna make you unbalance and that'll really challenge your core. Right. It seems like it's easy, but it's not if you got the heavy weight a good way to kind of address some of that imbalance. And if you don't have weights, you could do something like load up a backpack or a suitcase and just get creative with it. Right. Right. Absolutely. Ok. So there's one more thing that we wanna make sure that we do. What is it? So the other thing we also wanna focus on is uh walking with some sort of resistance. So we kind of just talked about this. There is a way to um, walk with a heavy backpack or some sort of thing that will also help your grip strength. But being able to walk, get your steps in is super important. Right? So if you're not walking or um if you don't have any weight, all you can do. The easiest thing you can possibly do is walk up a hill just to get a little bit of extra resistance. And if you happen to have a place where you can, if you have a place you can, if you have help your grips, fortunate enough to have access to a gym. Um, you can hang and also help your grip strength as well, which is super fun. Um, well, I shouldn't say fun. It gets, it gets hard pretty easily, but if you can hang for 10 seconds, 20 seconds, 30 seconds and build up, um, that's also a great way to increase your grip strength without having to walk somewhere. You can just hang and swing around and get it done. All right, Fran, thanks so much. Thank you.

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