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Kwanzaa celebrations got under way in the Hudson Valley and worldwide yesterday.

The weeklong holiday honoring universal African-American heritage and culture, is observed from Dec. 26 to Jan. 1 each year.

Kwanzaa focuses on seven principles, including unity, purpose and faith. African foods such as millet, spiced pepper balls and rice are often served. A candle is lit each night representing the seven principles of Kwanzaa.

Kwanzaa celebrations got under way in the Hudson Valley and worldwide yesterday.  The weeklong holiday honoring universal African-American heritage and culture, is observed from Dec. 26 to Jan. 1 each

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All right, let's talk about this bitter blast that we're in right now. Addison, what does this mean for the Hudson Valley? And when will we see the light at the end of the tunnel? Quite literally. Hopefully, it's a nice warming light, right? Yes, exactly. Sunlight, right. Yeah, like swarm your hands right by that light Nikita. We will get some warmer days ahead. Temperatures bouncing back to normal levels for this time of the year. But we will definitely deal with a few more instances of cold air coming on down throughout the rest of the day today and through the midweek. So keep that jacket scarf and hat handed. You will need it by Friday to Sunday. Temperatures are milder and we will see showers come back our way. Thankfully, rain showers, not a little wintry mix of snow showers coming through, but for Friday and Sunday, so we can see what there's standing tall amongst the rest of the days and even Monday's 40% chance not too confident in those numbers right now. I think Saturday for the most part will trend on the dry side. The system just passed us by to the north and west. But back to the cold air at hand, we see those temperatures cooling on down to the upper twenties overnight with relatively fair skies and there will be a brisk wind coming on in that will gradually back down past sunset in throughout the early overnight hours. As we watch that wind slowly start to diminish, but it's coming in the wake of a cold from that pass by that open the freezer door, that chilly air will funnel on down. And because it's picking up moisture off the Great Lakes that don't have any ice on it, so it's able to easily pick up that moisture. It's transporting snow showers over this way. Some lake enhanced snow showers coming on down over across portions of upstate New York that did come down this way. We showed you that video earlier on. So later on tonight, 815 out in Pine bush, 20 degrees, your air temperature feeling about 18 white points 29 feeling 10 degrees colder than that fast forward in towards Wednesday morning, temperatures feeling in the upper teens in Newburgh, Middletown about 2527 degrees or so. So you have to give yourself and the car extra time to warm up. And then by Wednesday afternoon, you can see a lot of locations trending below the freezing point of 32 degrees. Now I mentioned there's a chance for seeing showers come our way. So as we go past Thursday into Friday we watch our system move up from the southern plains giving us rain showers by Friday afternoon and they should be out of here heading in towards your Saturday morning where we watch another system pass us by the north. But our third system comes our way for Sunday, giving us another round of rain showers. But we are gonna be noticing those temperatures trending where they should be this time of year, upper forties, not the upper thirties, Niia, that unfortunately we are feeling out there today and tomorrow.

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Kwanzaa celebrations kick off across the Hudson Valley