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Superintendent of Schools Doctor Joseph Ricca joined News 12 to discuss the decision to hold classes but cancel outdoor activities


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And of course, we'll have more news in just a few moments. But first, let's turn our attention to our storm watch forecast. Here's meteorologist Addison Green to break down everything you need to know for this weekend and, and to that, we do anticipate seeing a very nice start to the weekend. It's the second half the back end as we're trying to come on back home from our weekend getaways perhaps. And we're dealing with a very high chance of seeing showers come through at last into Monday. Thankfully though, not the entire days for both, these are going to be washed out, but we're going to be seeing this system swing on in by Sunday afternoon, the first half of your Sunday for the most part will be fine, breezy, mild, a touch of the muggy side with an increase of moisture coming up this way. But by Sunday afternoon, overnight into Monday, that's when we get batches arranged strong gusty winds. Those holiday lights that are nicely decked out across your household may be impacted, especially some of those inflatable holiday decorations where you maybe perhaps you want to bring them inside before they get blown away. So putting your future cast right here in motion Sunday morning, you can see we have probably the most of the cloudy skies across the Hudson Valley area. These yellow lines right here are Isobars lines of vehicle pressure, the more amount that we have in place and the closer you are to get shows us a stronger wind field coming on in and the direction of where it's coming from. And we can see those winds will start to increase out of a south westerly direction around lunchtime showers though still aren't here yet, but we're watching those Isobars getting closer together. So more breezy winds by Sunday afternoon with rain coming on down and this will continue being the case overnight, potentially some heavy rain coming on through. Thankfully though, this is for the most part wind, we're sleeping 330 or so right there in the morning, but some strong gusty winds may come down with that rain as that rain comes down from the atmosphere and pulls down that strong wind flow. Now, up past this cold front, approaching our area, we may be dealing with a brief change over places like Sullivan County, Olsa County, a little change over a little wintry mix of snow. I think dry air will come rushing on down first. So that change over will be brief. But nonetheless, it's still possible if you're out and about. We did have some snow showers earlier on today with a brief flow of air coming in off the Great Lakes that has, for the most part shut down. But we still have some cold air in place for tonight with a very light breeze. We'll see temperatures go down towards the low 30 gut in towards your four, five o'clock hour and then moving up nicely towards lunchtime. Around 42. We're getting back to where we should be this time of the year with high temperatures in the mid, maybe even the upper forties. If we're lucky, Saturday is the pick of the week, mid f coming our way. Sunday, six degrees. You're like, wow, that looks great problem is that happens closer to midnight and heavy rain and gusty winds coming on and so it's not gonna be a pleasant 60. Then after that, temperatures tumble forties are coming our way for all of next week.

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White Plains schools in session, outdoor activities canceled

Other local schools are taking precautions of their own that does include white planes where outdoor activities are being moved inside or rescheduled for a later date. Joining us now on news 12 to talk about that decision is the superintendent of schools, Doctor Joseph. So what is your message to local families this afternoon? Hi, Lisa, thanks so much for having me. Uh My message is uh just like we've learned in the past and in past situations related to health and safety, we're always gonna try to make the best decisions that we can to keep our Children and our families and our community members as safe as we possibly can. And that's what you're seeing today. You're seeing making adjustments as much. We hate to make adjustments to end of the year activities, making adjustments, moving activities inside postponing, um or rescheduling activities um the best as we can uh to, to be able to accommodate our kids. Uh and, and also keep them out of what could be potentially hazardous breathing conditions outside. So how have the kids and teachers been handling these changes today? Oh, my goodness. Uh You know, I couldn't be more proud of, of my colleagues or our tigers. It, it, it's not easy, right? But, but they also roll with uh whatever, whatever sort of the world is bringing to us on any given day. So we've been communicating with everybody. Uh We've been trying to do our very best. The principals and our teachers have been doing great jobs trying to reschedule events. But at the end of the day, I think everybody understands that these are situations that are out of anybody's control. So what do you do? You do the best that you can and you try to take care of everybody and provide as much support as you can. All right, so let's think about what's next talk about tomorrow. What do you think is going to be happening? Yeah. So the, the good news as the governor was just talking about and, and a a as as uh Matt was talking about, we are seeing the air quality trending in the right direction. But again, as Governor Hoel stated as well, that doesn't mean that a week from now, two weeks from now, if these wildfires are still burning that we couldn't see additional smoke coming into our region. So we have to keep staying vigilant for, for tomorrow. Things are going in the right direction and our principals and folks in our schools are hopeful that uh we'll be able to get to a place where we could have events outside. Um You know, tomorrow and, and then into the weekend and into, into the next couple of weeks of school. But we also, we also know that we have to kind of be mindful and keep watching uh the air quality uh in, in our region. All right, Doctor Joseph Rica, superintendent of White Plains Schools. We appreciate your time. Thank you so much. Thank you.

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