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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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LIVE ZOOM: AAA

Storm watch coverage and a warning for drivers hitting the roadways this morning. The conditions are not ideal. It's been a while since many of us have driven in the snow. So let's get some important reminders before you hit the road and those come from robert Sinclair from Triple A. He's live with us again this morning, robert thanks so much for being here. We do appreciate your time. Thank you very much for having me. Alright, so what are the biggest concerns on the roadway is when we get conditions like this? Well, you know, before you even get out on the road, you need to prepare the vehicle and that's by clearing all the snow and ice off. You don't want to have any ice missiles flying off your vehicle and maybe blinding another driver so that's very important. And in some states, New Jersey one, you can be cited for not having your vehicle cleared of snow. Once you get out on the road, you have to remember posted speed limits are for ideal conditions and it can take a vehicle up to nine times longer to stop, particularly black type has changed to white top compared to normal conditions. So that's very important. Keep your speed down the two second or three second following distance rule. Get stretched out to six or seven seconds, you need to accelerate, gently break gently going into turns is particularly dangerous. Keep your speed well below what normal speed might be in these type of conditions. If you start to slide in that turn, you want to look and steer in the direction that you want to go and don't look at the wall that you want to, that you don't want to hit look around the turn, look and steer in that direction that works. If you have front wheel drive, rear wheel drive or all wheel drive, lots of different tests have found that out, but it's very important just keep these things in mind then be safe because the roads are slippery, particularly on, uh, perhaps overpasses, it's still below freezing so that cold air, the air changes temperature more easily than the earth. So if you're on, on grade, you're fine. But if you get up above on a bridge and elevated roadway and overpass, you have to be careful. You definitely have to be careful out there. I can tell you firsthand a lot of white out conditions as you were driving earlier this morning, robert Sinclair from Triple A. Thank you so much for those important piece of information as people head out on the roadways. Thank you for having me

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