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Police Chief Kevin Sylvester joins News 12 via Zoom to discuss how the winter
storm is impacting the Ossining community.

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Ossining Police Chief Kevin Sylvester joins News 12 via Zoom to discuss how the winter storm is impacting the Ossining community.

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Now, I recommend uh, everyone pretty much stays home and hunker down for tomorrow, starting in the afternoon through tomorrow night, stay home, do some online Christmas shopping. That's your best bet. It's gonna get pretty nasty for tomorrow night. As for tonight, temperature is not so bad. It's mostly cloudy. Some patchy fog out there. The south winds around 10 MPH, they're really gonna pick up as we step into tomorrow afternoon. So let's look at it on the future cast. Here we are tomorrow morning around 7 a.m. We're stuck in the clouds. Winds are not so bad. So if you need to get something done, I would recommend getting out sooner than later. Around 10 a.m. Scattered showers and a few pockets of heavier downpours start to move in those winds ramp up. And as we step into the afternoon, you can see the heavier downpours in the shades of orange, yellow and red. So we do have the rain thickening up and giving us heavy downpours throughout the area and the winds as well. The wind gusts 27 MPH in Yonkers by tomorrow evening and into the overnight hours. So we'll have winds between 1530 MPH. Gusting up to 35 even 40 MPH, especially by Yonkers and White Plas places closer to the coast as we look towards your Monday morning, things will start to taper off. We do have some wraparound showers. The winds are going to stay with us though, not gusting up to 40 MPH, but will be about 15 to 25 MPH. And then we have northwest winds behind everything. So for your Sunday, it's gonna be mild, rainy, windy and then we'll clear things out for the second half of Monday. It's gonna stay blustery and temperatures drop off, especially Monday night. So both the Jets game for tomorrow should be interesting. And for your Monday night football, the Giants game should be a blustery and chilly one as well. Looking ahead here are those, uh, wind gusts and here are what we can expect as far as rain totals anywhere from 1 to 3 inches throughout the area. Here's your 10 day forecast. We do dry things out December chill stays with us through next week and we're not really expecting any rainfall in the upcoming week as well.

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LIVE ZOOM: Ossining Police Chief Kevin Sylvester

our storm watch continues this morning. Snow is falling in some parts of the Hudson Valley, but really it's mostly rain in northern Westchester, joining us now on the phone this morning from the Austin Police Department Chief kevin Sylvester chief. Thanks so much for joining us first. Just want to start by telling us, you know, what are the conditions like in your area at this point this morning? Yeah, Good morning. Thanks for having me. It's mostly a soggy and cool day. It's that we're grateful for it. Not being snow. This would be quite a mess if it was frozen, but for the most part today, just gonna be a cold and soggy morning. That's for sure. We've seen worse in this area, thankfully the temperatures aren't any colder. But are there any main concerns for you out there this morning? You know, ponding or any particular areas that people should know about so far? We're not seeing that. But uh, it definitely can change pretty quickly anytime. We've got a long term stoking rain like this. It wouldn't be unusual for limbs to start coming down and get blocked. So we're out keeping an eye on things, looking for those uh types of scenarios to pop up so far so good. But definitely we're encouraging people to take it easy this morning, it's gonna be dark, you know, a little bit longer than usual and reduced visibility. So I want everybody to take the time and try not to crash. Absolutely. What are your officers out there doing at this point this morning, just to keep people safe. Are they changing anything that they normally would on their route? You know For the most part we just want them to spread out so they're out there and we can have quick response times, you know anytime you've got a road blockage for collisions or any kind of natural uh tree limbs coming down such, you don't want to leave that going for too long. And we certainly don't want our officers out in the uh in the cold and rain. It's dangerous out there this time in the morning. So yeah, we're just kind of doing preventative type stuff but we're ready. Absolutely. Alright well stay safe your officers as well. Thank you again, Chief Sylvester for joining us this morning. We'll check back in with you later to get an update.

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