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Olympic gold medal gymnast Aly Raisman opened up about her debilitating struggle with migraines and what helps her cope with the pain.

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It so that it feels like December today, very seasonal with the look and feel those passing flurries and these highs today topping off close to 43 degrees, 44 for a large portion of us, many of us across the state, Newark Edison to New Brunswick down to Patterson Biscay as well, 43 degrees with a mixture of more clouds in play. Now, things are definitely gonna change come this weekend, we are looking for a big strong system and with much more confidence, heavy rain winds gusting upwards to 50 mile per hour range or even higher in some spots and of course, some squall lines also a big concerns here with possible impacts being of course also coastal flooding into Sunday night heading into the overnight. We're still continuing to fine tune these details but really confident on this look here. So squall lines, those are the quick passing sharp front line that we are expecting to notice some heavy rain as well as some gusty winds associated with it, notice a direction here out of the south and southeast. And that's what also makes it particularly concerning for coastal communities and coastal flooding being a big factor as well and potential flurries today, we notice a cold and that will continue to linger on also for tomorrow morning. Things clear up nicely as we progress throughout the day today, but don't be fooled that cold air continues to funnel from northern regions and we noticed a little bit of clearing up. Now, the potential for us to notice once again those snowflakes tomorrow morning heading into the afternoon is very likely. So wind swept, flurries. Once again, showers also staying a bit more to the south. As to be expected, Friday clears out nicely and we slowly start to regain the warmth. But then that cold front really comes through into the later half of the weekend. Here's a look at our exclusive 10 day forecast.

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And plus scan the QR code right there for more episodes, videos and photos. All right, we're getting another check of the weather with storm watch team. Meteorologist Alan Nos and Alan today is cold. It's going to warm up. But then also we're going to have a storm. When is all this happening, right. So the warm up is going to happen starting Friday, Friday and Saturday will start warming up. And then Sunday, all that warm air, it's going to be a clash between the warmth and the December cold, heavy rain is looking likely that's I think one of our biggest impacts when it comes to Sunday again. Keep in mind today, it's still Wednesday. We have several days to track the storm. But what we know so far is that there could be a possibility of flooding conditions. This is going to be for a later Sunday evening into Sunday night. On top of that, imagine it's not just rain, it's a windswept rain, wind swept thunderstorms. In fact, wind gusts could easily be over 40 MPH, especially if you're east of night five east of the Hutch where you're closer to the water along country club throgs neck locust point. These areas could see wind gusts over 50 MPH. Of course, the exact details, we're going to be fine tuning over the next couple of days including the big temperature drop that follows the storm on Monday. So you're going to have to just stay tuned with us over the next couple of days. Hope will also have an update in the evening. So you definitely want to stay tuned for that again. This pattern, it's ripe for producing a big time storm Sunday. Out ahead of the storm again, we're going to get that warm flow from Florida, bringing up sub temperatures that are going to be near 60 degrees on Saturday. But as the storm approaches Sunday, it's going to pick up not just the warmth but the moisture, a tropical connection, in fact, and what that's going to do is produce the threat of some heavy rain, especially Sunday evening and Sunday night. In the meantime, though, it's just cold, it's December cold. In fact, out the door tomorrow morning, you're definitely going to want that coffee in hand warming you up or of course, those mittens we're going to see 28 for North Bay Chester, 29 Mott Haven, 30 for City Island and a little bit better of a chance for a couple of these festive flakes. Our latest feature cast, in fact, actually showing a whole snow shower might be falling at a decent clip at around lunchtime. This is at 1230. So 37 Park Chester don't expect it to stick, but it'll look a little bit like a snow globe for just a few minutes there, Thursday afternoon and then it's just going to stay cold as we usher in Hanukkah tomorrow night, around 35 degrees when the sun goes down. And then of course, the warm up begins Friday, Saturday near 60 Sunday, hey, could make a run at 70. But with those thunderstorms, it's not a day that you want to be outside. It's a roller coaster. At least for the start of Hanukkah. We have good weather. So that's something to look forward to. But, wow, Sunday. Yeah, you'll be watching second half. All right, Alan, thank you. Well, Janice.

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Santa is very busy these days. We know the clock is ticking until his big day of Christmas. Matt. Yes. And the clock is ticking too for my shopping to start as we get into say, maybe December 20th or so, maybe that will be a good time to start doing it. I want to focus on some serious things though, first and foremost, here today, chilly, a few flurries. But let's head to the map right now and talk about what we might be looking at for later in the day on Sunday. Now, the timing with this will change over the next couple of days, but we're still watching the chance for some moderate to heavy rain for at least a couple of hours and temperatures surging up to near 60 degrees later Sunday evening and Sunday night, potentially ending very early on Monday and there will be some wind with that as well. Again, that's late Sunday, potentially into early on Monday. So something to keep in the back of our minds for right now as we plan ahead, future cast as we go throughout the rest of today, a couple of flurries around through about five o'clock, we've had some flurries around, even a few rain sprinkles at times, go back to around freezing or below this evening and overnight and we actually get a little bit of some partial clearing for a few hours during the overnight that will allow temperatures to drop into the twenties. More clouds move in mid-morning tomorrow and by mid to late morning and through the early part of the afternoon tomorrow, we will have another chance for a few scattered light snow showers and flurries again. Nothing that's amounting to anything on the ground though. So dress warmly. The rest of today, it's chilly outside right now. Temperatures around 40 at best scattered flurries through the afternoon and ending early this evening. Then some partial clearing overnight tonight, a cold night, a night to maybe even add the extra layer into early on Thursday. So tomorrow we do this all over again where we have a couple of scattered flurries midday, mostly cloudy, chilly near 40 upper forties, Friday pick of the week. Still Saturday with a mix of sun and clouds. Sunday will start off fine, but it's turning more windy temperatures near 60 late in the day with rain Sunday night next week shaping up to be mostly dry with highs in the forties.

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I'm meteorologist Rich Hoffman through hyperlocal weather forecast. The rest of today. A little breaks of sunshine. We have a couple of spotty rain or snow showers moving on through. We've had a few flakes flying out over the east end. Now, through the rest of today, still that chance of a rain or snow shower. Now, in Huntington through this evening it's cold. We top out to a high of 41. By the time we're coming home from work around five o'clock, 39 degrees, we're in the thirties, skies will clear overnight and tomorrow morning, cold temperatures around 25 to 30 degrees. So out the door today this afternoon, 41 degrees, it's cold that rain and snow shower, wind chills have been in the twenties and thirties. So if you're outside the gloves, the hat, the warm boots and also the scarf and keep yourself warm. The rest of today, take a look. Now, tomorrow. So it's cold today. Tomorrow, the chance of a rain or snow shower in the afternoon hours of Thursday, a high of only 40 to start off hot for Thursday night, slight chance of a rain or snow shower early and then overnight hours of Thursday into Friday, skies will start to clear and weather will be improving on your Friday. How about a temperature near 50 degrees? So, changes coming our way towards the weekend, Saturdays dry Sunday. We're watching the storm. It will have strong winds and the timing of the rain looks to be during the afternoon and evening hours of Sunday. If it gets delayed a little bit more, it's more towards Sunday night. So the threat of some brief heavy rain, Sunday night into early Monday morning and some strong winds, we could have winds on Sunday night, 40 to 50 MPH. Recapping today. Temperatures, low forties that rain in passing snow shower tonight, turning colder lows 25 to 30. It's a cold start to your Thursday morning. Saturday looks good at 54. Then that rain and wind Sunday night into Monday morning.

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Trip to Ridgefield this afternoon, snow flurry squalls passing through. I don't know John. I guess we're cold enough out there and we're at that time of year. Yeah, we are Becky. And again, we were looking at some flurries earlier on this morning. Shout out to our producer, Jeremy, you sent this in like one minute before the show earlier this afternoon. But again, we really are seeing that, that colder air, even some dry air back out across the north and northwest. A few lake effect showers back out across western New York. We're really seeing that driving into our neck of the woods. No accumulation. But I know for some really is nice to see as we are just 15 days out from the official start of winter, but it's already feeling like it. 41 is a forecasted high for today. A lot of us not even making it out of the thirties that puts us several degrees cooler than what we should be. 47 is what the National weather service recognizes as average. Here's a look at this afternoon again, mostly cloudy skies. We're gonna try to find a poke of some sunshine for some spots out toward west end in Bridgeport, but still you're gonna need to bundle up. It's, that chill is just gonna continue to linger around. Not really seeing much sun to help warm things up a chance for a few more flakes as we head into later parts of your afternoon. Clear for tonight. It's gonna be a cold one as temperatures dropping off down into the twenties for lows and we're waking up to that into your tomorrow morning with yes another gray start and a chance for some more flurries and a little bit of some light snow shower activity as we push forward. Getting into your tomorrow afternoon, it's gonna be chilly throughout your tomorrow. It's gonna be the coldest day on tap. Like numbers are really only gonna be in the twenties throughout the day. In fact, here's a look at your tomorrow afternoon when we try to make it into the thirties, we're still only feeling like the upper twenties and for some spots, it's gonna feel like the teens for the tomorrow morning. So again, if you're someone waiting for the bus or some type type of public transportation, you do need to bundle up when I return, we're really gonna focus in and get a timeline of what we're looking at for your Sunday because while it does uh warm up nicely with those temperatures close to 60 we do have some rain up ahead.

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be Well: Olympic gold medal gymnast Aly Raisman opens up about her struggle with migraines

You know, Ali Raman is one of the most iconic Olympic athletes of our time, two time captain of the gold medal winning us women's gymnastics team, six time Olympic medalist and a truth teller who helped blow the whistle on abuse by the national team's doctors. Yeah, but what you may not know is that Ali also suffer from migraines, a neurological condition that can be totally debilitating. She's parting with to spread the word and to raise awareness about the disease. Allie Raman, thank you so much. Welcome to be. Well, thank you so much for having me. I know you were recently diagnosed. So dealing with migraines throughout your gymnastic career, you know, I wasn't actually diagnosed as you mentioned until um you know, more recently within the last um couple of years. And so, um I can remember, you know, when I was competing, I would often say I kind of had like a hair headache because I would wear my hair up in such a tight bun. But I've learned that that's a symptom of a migraine. Um and I've struggled for many years with like nausea, fatigue, um light sensitivity, head pain. Um and So I wasn't diagnosed with migraine but from what I'm learning now, I, I think I um had it when I was um competing. So I'm still, you know, on this journey of trying to learn more about like what my migraine symptoms look like and how to manage it on a day to day basis. Ok. So how did it feel to finally have your hair headache? So you would know what was happening And did that also make it easier for you to manage your condition? Yeah, I think that, um, you know, for years I've was going to doctors and I just wasn't really getting answers. I wasn't understanding why I was feeling a certain way. Um, and why I wasn't feeling well to be honest. And I think for me, at least with my migrant experience it, it, when I get one, it, it can really prevent me from, you know, spending time and with people that I love and doing things that I wanna do. Um, and so it felt validating and I also believe that knowledge is power. So being able to, you know, talk to a neurologist and be able to, um have the diagnosis to be able to be prescribed. U baldi has been, um, it's been very helpful for me and to be able to have a medication and to find a treatment plan that works for me, um, has been, you know, it's hard to put into words how much it's helped me. Well, just to be clear how bad did the migraines get for you? You mentioned like the hair headache. Was it just a tingling or was it like, throw you off your equilibrium? How bad was it? I mean, for me, it really depends on, um, the day. I mean, when I say hair headache, I think that probably, um, probably doesn't make it seem as bad as it is. I think for me, my symptoms look like I get like my headache sort of um, on my forehead and um, on my eyebrows. And I also get like extreme like kind of like headache in the back of my head where it's like a lot of, um, it's so sensitive to touch. I also get um, nausea, which I always thought the nausea was separate. But I learned from my neurologist that um, nausea is also a symptom of a migraine. Um, so it really, it depends. I also get like light sensitivity, smell sensitivity. Um, so it, it's pretty when I get a migraine, it's uh, definitely not fun. And it, you know, there's different variations some days, um, are worse than others. But that's why for me having UBRE has been so important and so crucial because what I also learned is that, um, you know, it, there's no cure for a migraine. And so to be able to have a medication that I can understand what's happening, take it when I don't feel well, and then I get relief. It, it helps me to be able to go on with my day. It helps me to be more present with people because when I have a migraine, sometimes I'm not able to, I have to cancel things. I have to stay home. Um, and so to be able to have Rey, I can actually live my life and, and do things what I learned as an athlete, like I always wanted to just power through and I didn't want to take medication. And I've just learned there is a stigma in my opinion, around migraine and there's a stigma in my opinion, around taking medication. And so I've learned that finding a patient that work for me has been so personal and so helpful. Um because for me, it, it just, it doesn't go away on its own, you know, without you, for me personally. So I would just say for people to talk to a doctor and, and encourage them to ask questions and find a treatment plan that works for them. So what made you want to spread the word and, you know, bring awareness to migraines? Well, you know, it's interesting um you know, when I started to just talk more about it with my family and my friends, I realized, you know, my mom um has migraine as well and has had it, I think from like as long as I can remember, I can remember my mom, you know, coming home from school and her not feeling well. And so I think that we've really leaned on each other a lot over the last several years because she, um you know, we've been navigating this journey together. But then through just talking to some friends, a lot of my friends or, you know, their significant others or their friends also have migraine as well. And then from sharing my story, I just get so many D MS and so many people say they're experiencing it as well. And I also think there is, you know, I keep mentioning the stigma around migraine, but I think a lot of people don't understand how difficult it can be, how painful it is, how much it can prevent people from being able to continue on with their day. And so um I think that the more that we can really truly talk about it and destigmatize it, but also just, I think the messaging around, we never know what people are going through. You know, I think migraine, I've heard, you know, neurologists tell me it's an invisible disease and, you know, people might not be able to see if I have a migraine or you might not be able to see if someone's struggling, but just because you can't see it, it doesn't mean that it's not real. So I think, um you know, I believe everyone's battling something and we're all going through something. Um And it's important to support each other and, and raise awareness for things that people are going through. All right, you've accomplished so much in your career. So, tell us what's next? I, I'm really excited about this summer. Um, it's my favorite time and so I'm just excited to, you know, spend a lot of time with my friends and family and I have a dog who's sleeping right next to me right now. So I love being a dog mom. And, um, yeah, you know, I'm really, I have a lot of things that I'm very passionate about. Very excited about, but I think that I'm just really excited for the summer to just relax and have fun and, um, good. Right. Yeah, exactly. Yeah. All right. Well, Ally Raman, thank you so much for spreading the word and for joining us today. I appreciate your time. Thank you so much.

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