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Heavy rain, wind hazardous travel all in the cards as we go into the afternoon and evening through early Monday morning. So what are we looking at all that wind? All that rain is already coming across much of the western portions of Pennsylvania, Ohio, West Virginia. And as it moves towards our neck of the woods, we are going to be seeing a lot more of this rain coming across the region, giving us some hazardous travel. If you are going to be going out anywhere, do it early this morning, going to see gusty winds, periods of rain starting around lunchtime into the afternoon and evening. The worst though going to be this evening, the wind swept, soaking rain gusts up to 30 to 40 plus MPH and that rain will be steady and heavy into your Monday morning. Still real windy and will dry out. Some of the model guidance is showing yes snow, but I think it's mainly just be colder, drier air, not enough of it to produce some of those snowflakes. So we are just looking at mainly rain. That's the big threat, especially Northeastern New Jersey from Woodbridge up to Ridgefield Park, looking at flash flooding, underpasses roads, small streams drains. Everyone could see this, especially tidal flooding as well into Ocean County and eastern Monmouth County as well. The system bringing lots of rain and moisture coming from the coast as well as from Appalachia that's pushing in towards our neck of the woods, giving us the potential for 2 to 4 inches of rain. The turnpike corridor looks to be the hardest hit as we go into your Monday with gusty winds, 30 to 40 MPH, secure those trash cans anchor down the holiday decorations as well because we are going to start to see this come in around lunchtime, scattered showers and downpours. Then towards 45 o'clock, heavy rain from Middlesex County all the way down to Camden. Still some showers up towards the 78 and 80 corridors. Then come at 78 o'clock. That's, we're going to see all that heavy rain come through the region and that will be lingering into the early morning hours as highs today. Fifties and sixties rain wind. But then going to be seeing those cooler temperatures come across the region.

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Brooklyn

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Welcome back when you hear that sound, you know what that means. We're on storm watch with storm watch team, meteorologist Christy Campana. So Christy, we know the rain is coming, but that's not all right. Yeah. No, we can't rule out any gusty winds either. And those two combined really create for a messy kind of system that's headed our way. And like we said, 2 to 4 inches of rain is expected and that majority is gonna be overnight tonight and that can create some problems for your morning commute if there is localized flooding, which like we said, we can't rule out, but let's go straight to it and see, you know, an hour by hour where the system is coming in and this is two o'clock today. So we see the system just approaching here for the afternoon and we could see some batches of heavy downpours throughout the afternoon. But the majority of this is going to be a little bit later. This is 3 p.m. We see this light to moderate rain, these yellow colors really on the outskirts of the city and then maybe a break here and there by around five o'clock your dinner time. But then the majority of this hits around 8 to 10 o'clock and we see this orange, yellow and red and this is our more moderate, steady and even heavy rain that is headed our way and that's to continue overnight for your overnight hours. And that majority of it just past 1 a.m. two AM, we see it start to get slightly lighter around then and then by 6 a.m. we see it really start to push off and push out to the ocean and it clears up just a bit. We can't rule out a lingering shower until around seven or 8 a.m. And then it clears up really by mid to late morning and we could see even the sun come back out around your mid to mid morning to afternoon before the sunset, which is a good thing, but that flooding can still stick around and that comes with these gusty winds. So sustained winds of around 15 to 20 miles an hour and this is 8, 30 twenties we're seeing and then uh change in direction. This becomes a north wind as it's passing and we could see up to 3040 miles an hour. So really take anything in outdoors and just be cautious through the next couple of days. And let's take a look at 10 day forecast. We are in storm watch overnight. We're gonna see heavy rain, gusty winds and that breezy and those gusty winds continue a bit into your Tuesday. It's gonna be breezy but the sun is out and temperatures are back to seasonable for the rest of the week.

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Westchester

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For another look at your hyper local forecast as we continue to watch the storm heading into our area. And Alex, I'm seeing some parts on this map showing that snow is expected in some parts of the Hudson Valley on the back end of it, Nadia. Tomorrow morning, we will have a couple of flakes fly and yeah, even some accumulating snow weight of the north and west. But let's first talk about the rain coming in our direction this afternoon. It's still tucked away pretty far to our south. And so we're good here in the Hudson Valley for the morning. We have some areas of fog, but we also have some areas of sunshine. So we'll take it. And certainly if you have any plans before noon, you're good to go. Wind is pretty light for the first part of the day. You would have no idea that a storm was coming except for the fact that it feels a little different out there, it feels a lot warmer than it usually is. This time of the year, we even have temperatures in the fifties in some spots this morning that above average for the afternoon when the afternoon arrives. Now we're starting to kick in some showers. This is two o'clock, four o'clock. Look, we've got some rain passing through at six o'clock still and we continue to see the rain pretty much all through the evening. Some of the worst of the rain will be eight to about midnight or so tonight, it's also quite breezy, 20 to 30 mile per hour wind gusts. You factor in several hours of rain and now you've got some trees coming down, release some branches and that could knock out power. Here's four o'clock in the morning. If you're a really early commuter, you're still dodging rain. And if you're in Sullivan and Ulster County, the high elevations of Ulster County, we're looking at cold enough temperatures for a few snowflakes and then a few flakes will mix in 6 a.m. But at this point, things are drying out. It does stay breezy pretty much all day Monday. In fact, some of the worst wind will be with the sunshine Monday afternoon. I wanna show you two different models here. This is one model showing you the rain all the way up to midnight about an inch or so in White Plains and Yonkers and then it picks up to two inches but notice how close we are to that really heavy rain over Connecticut and Long Island. This other model actually will bring in some of that heavier rain off to our east. I'm gonna show it to you coming up on the other side of the break. But I also wanna show you the winter storm warning in effect for the higher elevations of Ulster County and the advisory in effect for Sullivan. I thought that was kind of important to get to. So I will show you the difference in the rain totals coming up. But a little more good news once we get through Monday, it's totally dry for work week.

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Long Island

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LIFORECAST

More than 3 million Americans suffer from chronic fatigue syndrome. That's according to a Friday report from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. It found that 1.3% of adults had chronic fatigue syndrome between 2021 and 2022. The new findings place a sharp focus on the disease as it determined that far more people suffer from chronic fatigue than previously estimated. Researchers noted that these numbers may represent an undercount due to the impending storm this afternoon. The Oceanside Fire Department has announced Santa's annual visit has been postponed. The new date will be next Sunday, December 17th, starting at 4 p.m. They are telling residents to check out their social media on that day of the event for more updates. All right time. Now for another look at your hyper local forecast as we continue our storm watch coverage this morning and Alex, these uh graphics have been running all morning very concerning a lot of red on there. And the problem is how long that red, that heavy rain stays in some neighborhoods. So we're going to have to really keep an eye on things late this afternoon. But this morning is not bad. So get out, enjoy all the way through noon time. The later part of the afternoon is when those two to maybe up to four inch rainfall to push through. We have gusts of wind 40 to 60 MPH after sunset, especially. And until after midnight, street flooding expected some power outages expected. So, especially if you're in a neighborhood that's really prone to power outages. You got to make sure that you have your backup in hand and yeah, the wind isn't really too bad this morning. We even have some peaks of sun early this morning. So it is a great opportunity to just sort of do the check around the yard and make sure you don't have things that are going to fly around this afternoon and to get your errands done because people have things to do on a Sunday. So we're good until noon time. But then things pick up two o'clock or so, it's still really not a wash necessarily at this point, but you will need the umbrella then three and four o'clock. That's when some of this heavy rain sets in. We could hear some rumbles of thunder with this too. Temperatures are really climbing. We're close to six degrees as the sun sets. This is way above average for temperatures and six o'clock, it is still raining. 78 o'clock, we still have rain. So we have a long stretch of several hours of rain and then the wind kicks in too. Look at 10 o'clock, your wind gusts are at 40 MPH across parts of the island. We'll have some gusts up to 50 as we close off the evening. It's going to be kind of hard to fall asleep to this three in the morning. Some of the wind pushing through the Hamptons in the east end and then it clears out for Monday morning. There will be some showers for the morning commute. It'll still be breezy, but it won't be a flood risk at that point. Although there could still be some flooding from whatever residual happens today through noon. Look, we do have some rain on the map but nothing flooding wise until the late afternoon, we'll pick up about an inch or so by four o'clock and here's the concern. The models have been painting this, all of them consistently. There's an area either somewhere in Nassau, Western Suffolk, maybe central Suffolk where a line of storms set up and bring maybe 2 to 5 inches of rain. It could possibly be toward Connecticut or it could be here on the island. So we're keeping an eye on things through the evening time where both storms set up. We have some problems the rest of the work week, totally dry. But Breezy through Wednesday.

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Hudson Valley

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Connecticut

CT | Weather

CTFORECAST

We're looking at. Yes, lots of rain coming our way. So definitely be careful if you're going out this afternoon and evening. We are looking at that chance for flash flooding all across Western Connecticut with gusts up to 30 to 50 MPH. So what does that mean? Power outages anchor down those holiday decorations and with the chance of flooding, if you do see any of that high water, remember to turn around. Don't drown. What are we looking at for the afternoon showers pushing in from 1 to 3 heavy stuff riving three or four, then we are going to be seeing those scattered showers and downpours the steadier, heavier rain after sunset towards 910 o'clock. This is when we could see that flood potential gusty winds as well as lightning and thunder with this. And on the back side could even see maybe a snow flake or two in the higher elevations of Litchfield County come Monday morning with those temperatures dropping from the fifties and sixties today, forties into your Monday 42 Tuesday, maybe a flurry or two on Wednesday with drier weather through the rest of the work week. That's a look at your hyper local forecast.

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Live Life Better: Maximize your curb appeal

Well, it is the first impression that guests get when they come to your house. So you wanna make sure that your lawn, your plants, your shrubs help make your home shine. That's so true. Hgt V's John Giddings showed me easy ways to maximize your curb appeal. I wanna take you to this next house because we're talking about overgrown vegetation. It looks like they need a little pruning here. What can you tell us about that? It would make such a difference just a little bit of controlling of all this plant and this, this green life because you know what that does, it makes it imply that there's other maintenance issues in the house. If you haven't pruned, if you haven't controlled your landscape, who knows what else you haven't controlled? So I say, you know, when you've got a lot of big green around front, definitely bring them down. Control the look a little bit. So if the rest of the house looks elevated as well, now for the hedges, is there a height that matters? Should it be like, you know, chest height so people can look into your yard or over your hands, rest over the eye height of your neighbor? Mm. Ok. So they don't have to see in all the time, but it's still very nice. Now, this is a problem a lot of people have in their yards, patches of grass that are missing, whether it's a burnt spot, a dry spot. What do we do about this? This is actually a great opportunity, opportunity for homeowners start incorporating in a smaller scale, some native plants. right? Pick an area where the grass isn't doing too well. For whatever reason, maybe there's too much shade here. Maybe the soil type isn't great and then put in a few natives, see how well they do. You'll be surprised how well they do. They're made for this environment, they're made for this climate. So chances are what used to be a little patch of dead grass is gonna be a verdant plot of native plant. Now, what if we want to plant grass seeds? I have so much trouble with planting grass seeds because I'm like the birds eat it. Then you have hay everywhere and you have to get the hay out. It's just a nuisance. But is there a better way to plant grass seed? Well, this is why I'm saying look for something alternative. If you have to go with grass, maybe go with a clover. It's so similar to grass and it stays nice. And though I already see some clover here. So you're halfway to a clover yard as it is. But if not, you're gonna find an alternative ground cover that's gonna look even better and do better. All right, it's time to improve our cure. All right, thanks John. Thanks.

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