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The International Ice Hockey Federation says women's hockey is one of the fastest growing sports in the world.

News 12’s Pete Ruf was in Rockland to see how this impact is being felt in the Hudson Valley.

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Well, it was a gloomy, a gloomy day rather, but the sun will come out for that walk tomorrow in Tarrytown. Right. Edison. Yeah, I think so. Kevin, we're gonna be seeing some breaks in that cloud that getting peeled away. So you perhaps and a few others are gonna maybe go out and about to do some running or some jogging or at least go out for a nice stroll where as you make your way on in through the 11 o'clock hour and a little bit after that, we're peeling away that layer of clouds getting that sun to shine on down temperatures though. Look at that not bad. Get up and towards the low fifties around 11 or so. But as you move on in towards that time frame, where was the showers move away? That fog is lingering around. Some spots may have some pockets of low visibility and for the weekend it's split Saturday, a nice day, Sunday, not so much the case. And then towards next week, we do go dry, but we do see a little bit of some colder air heading all wet. So, speaking of patchy fog, you can barely make out the Cuomo bridge in the distance. Earlier Friday evening, we will be able to see the spot. There's all nicely lit up in red. Not so much the case anymore. I'm looking at that platter and white points. We're keeping that cloud cover around pretty much until noon time as those temperatures only go down towards the mid forties and then rising after that, we're having an area of low pressure, pushing up warmth and moisture up this way. And as a result of that, we're getting that patchy fog to come on down, keeping the cold air away from us in towards your visibility forecast. You can see across Rockland County, Westchester County, Putnam County even. That's where we're seeing some of those low lying areas, some pockets, some lower visibility that will fade away heading in towards the middle of the day as we get that sun to shine and shine on down and break that cloud deck. So 815 in the morning, we got 42 degrees in Newburgh, 42 as well. In Yorktown Heights, you can see about one or two o'clock peeling away the clouds getting some sunny breaks, temperatures getting up in towards the mid FF and several spots then getting up in towards your Saturday night scatter showers slowly trying to push on in before midnight. So prepare yourself if you have any Saturday night plants. Then overnight we see all enough pockets of light rain come through, but we see more rain move on in after lunch time and maybe some batches of moderate to heavy rain time frame right there. 315 Newburgh be on the lookout near Harrison to see some moderate rain falling on down still have that rain falling on down towards seven o'clock. It should be wrapping up afterwards and we go towards your Monday morning commute with drier conditions, breezy winds and then unfortunately, guys, temperatures getting colder after that.

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Women's hockey on the rise in the Hudson Valley

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time for sports. I'm Amy Mcgrory. According to the International Ice Hockey Federation, women's Hockey is one of the fastest growing sports in the world. The impact is even being felt here in the Hudson Valley, especially at the high school level are Pete rough explains. They're called the Rockland Rockies made up of players from several different school districts in Rockland County. It's the team's second season as a varsity sport. The first one was iced by Covid in the past, girls who wanted to play hockey had to do so on a boys team, which likely meant limited minutes now they have a league of their own more than anything. We just want to provide an opportunity for them to play together because there's so much value in, in having all those girls work together and form a team. It's a different game. You know, there's no checking and everything like that, but It's, it's great. I'm so thankful for all the girls that came before me and gave us this opportunity Laughlin. And the Westchester East wave make up the two teams in section one. What's unique is that most of their games are played against teams outside of the Hudson Valley. The Rockies just returned from a road trip to Ithaca. This is so important. I'm so happy that I can play a girls high school hockey. I look at like the boys high school hockey and I just like to take, this is such a great opportunity after going winless last year, the Rockies have already netted a handful of wins this season, Making big strides in a short period of time. I see so much improvement individually and as a team every single year they're coming together. That's really our focus. We're just trying to gel. And the more we practice on that, the more successful going to have right For new 12 sports. I'm pete rough. Well, it looks like fun. Well, the Rockies will take on section rival Westchester sunday at eight PM at Sport O rama in muncie.

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