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<b>News 12</b>'s Elizabeth Hashagen was joined by lifestyle expert <a href="https://www.michaelrussoevents.com/">Mikie Russo</a> for tips to make your home feel welcoming and festive this holiday season. 

News 12's Elizabeth Hashagen was joined by lifestyle expert Mikie Russo for tips to make your home feel welcoming and festive this holiday season.

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Aren't letting them win either. No, they are not. All right. Let's see where our forecast is going as we head into tonight. There's still a few lingering showers across the area. Fog is a bit of an issue. The fog will probably last right up until about daybreak. As we go through the day tomorrow, we have more clouds than sun, but there will be sunshine in the forecast and with the sunshine and a favorable wind, temperatures will warm up nicely into the mid to upper fifties. Now, we're in the mid forties, there will be a few passing showers as we go through the first part of the overnight hours. But I don't think we're looking, looking at anything too significant things start to change as we get into Sunday. I think that's when we're more than likely going to be looking at a decent shot of rain, not only in the wee hours of Sunday morning before daybreak, but there's another slug of possibly moderate to heavier rain moving in at some point in the afternoon. Tonight, we're looking at mostly cloudy skies. Temperatures are going to be in the mid forties, areas of patchy fog will be around. There's also going to be a few on again off again. Showers early on temperatures will be in the upper thirties and lower forties. Milder temperatures are coming up the east coast. We do have some colder air wrapping around behind this rain event. And when this rain event finally wraps up on Sunday, that's when we start to see the colder temperatures moving in for early next week. So for the rest of this evening, we'll be dealing with a few passing showers by tomorrow afternoon. It's a mixture of clouds and sun. Temperatures will be in the mid to upper fifties, which is well above average for this time of year. We look ahead to Sunday or Saturday night going into Sunday. There's that first round of light scattered rain right up until about daybreak. You're left with mostly cloudy skies. The second round of storms comes in right around three o'clock in the afternoon and that will continue to spread through the area as we go through Sunday night into very early Monday. Otherwise Monday and Tuesday are fairly nice. Temperatures are very chilly going into Wednesday and we might be looking at some rain mixing with a few wet snowflakes, no accumulations but a little wintry. Nonetheless, more details on that forecast coming right up. Thank you, Dave.

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First full weekend of December officially upon us, but it doesn't really feel like it out there at all. Was that 60 degrees for Saturday? Really nice. Can't complain a little wet though today. Yeah, it was a little wet a couple of hours ago, but at least we got some dry conditions to kick off the weekend. That will be quickly changing by Sunday. Here's what you can expect. Waves of rain starting Saturday night into Sunday night. So that's going to be a long duration storm where we are expecting rounds of rain, steady rain with a few downpours possible. So you're gonna have to watch for some puddles ponding on area roadways. And if you live somewhere that has poor drainage, you're probably going to see some more of that localized flooding. In terms of tomorrow morning, we're starting off chilly. Temperatures near 46 degrees areas of fog will be to move into our area. It will lift and clouds will still be with us throughout the afternoon with temperatures topping out near 58 degrees muted sunshine. So not seeing that sunshine that we like to see, but at least it's going to remain dry. During the evening, it is still going to remain dry with clouds, but showers do arrive late after midnight. That's where we start to see some of that wet weather pushing through. But at least we got these unseasonably mild temperatures. Our average high 49 degrees. We're not going to see the forties until the midweek. And that's also where we start to see there. I say some festive flakes returning back to our area. But in the meantime, let's just enjoy the dry weather. So some clouds and fog to start our Saturday, it is going to remain dry throughout the day. Temperatures will be topping out near 58 degrees and we got some rain.

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First weekend of December. But hey, it feels like November still. We have mild air in place. Unfortunately, this is gonna keep fog around for the first half of the morning, especially for Westchester Rockland, maybe Putnam County getting in on widespread fog for the rest of the morning too. So basically the lower Hudson Valley has the best risk for that temperatures warm up pretty quickly. We're talking near 50 by the time you hit lunch and we could, in places like Yonkers and S A 287 hits 60 degrees what in December? But again, it does come with a lot of cloud cover. So it's not a beautiful looking day. There'll be some peaks of sun this afternoon today though. Really isn't a big issue. If you have afternoon plans. The fog is a slight problem for morning plans tonight. We do have rain mostly after midnight. So if you're a late night owl, you're getting in on that Sunday morning, it's a wash right from the start. Mostly white rain, but there will be pockets of heavy rain throughout the morning and the afternoon on Sunday. I really don't see much dry time if any during the daylight on Sunday it goes soup weather, it goes gloomy and, you know, it's not cold but it's gonna feel cold when you have that kind of rain just so widespread across the area. Monday morning commute. Not that we want to talk about the commute on a Saturday morning, but either way Monday morning does look good if you're planning it. Ok. How about rain again? Not much if any today. But tomorrow I am expecting half of an inch to an inch of rain across the Hudson Valley. So that's pretty decent. But it happens over the course of the whole day, 100% guarantee it does rain. But again, we're not expecting this to be a really heavy rain. It's just a persistent steady rain all day. Temperatures drop into the forties for the upcoming week.

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Connecticut

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I can. And if you're getting out of town for the weekend, you'll run into some rain just about everywhere. On Sunday, Saturday is going to be the dry day and the warmer day, but Sunday will feature some very soggy conditions all around the northeast. There's going to be a much larger system coming our way and this is going to be packing a lot more rain than what we just had. So what's where tomorrow? No rain in sight. They don't have to about the rain gear, but it will be a mostly cloudy day. A little bit warmer with temperatures in the fifties. I would still grab something warmer to where early in the day by the afternoon, you may not need all these layers, but it's a nice day. So get out and enjoy it. We don't often see temperatures like this in December to December. This is meteorological winter and it's a great time to do some star gazing. So we do have a couple of things heading our way for the month. Mercury at its greatest elongation on December 4th, best time to view the planet, which is very, very difficult to see because it's always low on the horizon. Look for that after sunset, the earliest sunset of the year is coming our way as well. That will be December 7th and we also have the gem, its media in a couple of weeks by December 13th and 14th. So stay tuned. I'll have more on that coming your way in the meantime, here's that extended forecast. Temperatures are mild for several days. Fifties right through the weekend. I think Monday and Tuesday are trending drier. Wednesday. More clouds could be a shower and then it's colder after that back into the forties. And that's a look at your local weather.

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Long Island

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You know, I watched it for so many years and to be seeing and hosting it is a different level. So it looks like everyone else enjoyed their time as well. They did. So this wet weather will get out of here for a little bit. You can have some hot chocolate and dry off tonight after work. And then tomorrow we get a little bit of a break from the rain. Saturday will be your day to get out, do some decorating, do some shopping. Even on Sunday. If you are out, it will be wet. So just have that umbrella. We'll be talking about on and off rain for much of the day, especially the afternoon and evening. Look at your highs this weekend in the fifties. So it is going to be mild. Um So at least, I guess that's a good thing. If it's going to be raining, at least it won't be cold right now. We're in the forties. You see those fifties southwest, this mild air will be in place for the day tomorrow. A little break in the morning, we have some low clouds and fog to kick off the day. But the afternoon is not bad. I think we get a couple of bright spots in the clouds, seeing some sunshine here and there. It's a little bit unsettled but it's dry at night. Light rain is back Sunday morning. There's not much until the afternoon and you see some heavier steadier rain will come through. It will be appearing kind of like today. Um, let's say between about two o'clock and eight tonight, 10 o'clock, most of that rainfall should get out of Suffolk County by 9 to 10 o'clock. Monday will be dry one more mild day and then we'll turn a little bit cooler as our winds will shift to the northwest. How much rainfall are we expecting? About a half an inch, maybe close to an inch in some spots? And that will be through Monday morning after that. The drier weather is back most of next week looks nice with mostly sunny skies and temperatures in the forties.

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Holiday decor: Get your home ready for the holidays with these festive tips!

lifestyle guru, Michael russo is here. So for people who are coming to my house, how do I make sure that they feel welcomed and that it looks awesome. Yes. So taking, like, regular household items that you have and just putting a little holiday twist onto it. Super easy and simple. So these are things that you'll find around your house and then even outside, so you can clip some greenery from your shrubbery and make it festive. Um so we're taking this regular looking lantern, right? So I have these like all over my house. Um so I went outside and I clipped some holly, some greenery, um which is really fun and festive. Um so what I'll do is I'll just tie that right on to the actual lantern. Um so I kind of do it off to the side because then it's just a little more decorative um and we'll post these on our social step by step um as yours as well as mine. Um so then you take the greenery, just like this, and then you tie that right on. Super simple, right? And it's just so festive. So you can do this on, not only lanterns, you can do this on pillows, you could wrap blankets with this um totally. So you just create a little bow, just like that, right? And then to get this true holiday feel with the pop of red, um I take these on the breakable ornaments, unbreakable ornaments um so they're plastic. So even if you drop them or whatever. Um but my little trick with this is these pop off on the top. So give that a little hot glue? Um So when you put the pipe cleaner through? I like to do stages of three because it just looks neat and clean. Um So I'll feed these through the pipe cleaner just like that and then give this a little twist. So now typically if you didn't hot glue them, these little ornaments would be popping off at this point. So take that um pipe cleaner and just feed it right through and you can just twist it right around your greenery and there you have a really festive looking lantern, right? And then also I threw in some greenery at the base of the lantern to make it a little extra festive and fun. Um so that's decor and then we always like to give people stuff, you know when they come to the house. Right? So I just took a regular mug. So this one actually says hot cocoa on it. Um but you can get mugs at your dollar store um that are pretty plain, you can even maybe right, the people's name on it. This is super easy. So I just took a Kasich bag, which you can get at your local florist, build it with hot chocolate marshmallows and finished it off with a little candy cane. How simple is that? And now you're using that to decorate the table, but then kind of like a wedding, you get to take it with you when you leave. Exactly. And who doesn't love a cute little favor? And is there any special type of ribbon that we need to get? Is there any, you know, should it have like a little extra structure or it doesn't matter. So I like dub faced satin ribbon. It's just always pretty. But if you're going to put this outdoors, I would use an outdoor ribbon and then you can get wired ribbon. Um, so it has wire on both ends. So that's easy to construct bows if you're not a great bow maker. Okay, because I'm not a great bow maker. But yeah, so to make this cute little mug, literally all I did was I took a corsage bag, hot chocolate, coco. Um, and then just oversized marshmallows. That's it. How cute. And then I talked with the little raffia. I love it. So it's festive and it's fun and it's a gift for everybody who's coming to your party.

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