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Orchard Beach hosted a fireworks show Wednesday
night, leading up to the holiday weekend for July 4.

News 12’s Julio Avila got to speak with those in attendance
about the celebration. 

Orchard Beach hosted a fireworks show Wednesday night, leading up to the holiday weekend for July 4.

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PM, checking back in now with storm watch teams, hoo SECA Hope cold. Today, we saw some snowflakes and now you're telling me wet weather is coming this weekend, I'm a little worried. No snow. I'm less worried. Well, it's still going to be an impactful system and something that we need to really prepare ourselves for over the next couple of days. So we saw the cold. Today, saw a few of those festive flakes, a nice couple of days ahead and this is what you can expect for Sunday evening into Monday, windswept rain. So the wind will be an issue and the rain starting Sunday evening and even lasting into Monday morning, a line of gusty thunderstorms that could start pushing through as early as 10:11 p.m. on Sunday. So we're still fine tuning the storm as we get through the next couple of days. We'll let you know what, what we can expect. Excuse me. So the gusts 40 to 50 MPH that can knock down tree land, tree branches even cause a concern for some scattered power outages and localized flash flooding, especially for the most flood prone air. So let's get into the future cast this evening will remain quiet. The clouds are with us. It will be clear tomorrow morning but still cold temperatures in the mid thirties, but not as cold as it's been over. The last couple of days. Tomorrow's highs will be in the mid to upper forties. So that season will feel we're seeing the sunshine again. Haven't seen that for the last couple of days. So it will be something that we can enjoy and guess what the sun does take us into our Saturday. A blend of sunny clouds with highs in the low to mid f Saturday. The pick of the week go outside and the conditions or just prepare for what's coming our way on Sunday because it is going to be nasty out there with the widespread rain and gusty winds moving into our area. So here's the timeline of the storm. The showers could be here as early as Sunday afternoon around 12:01 p.m. But the brunt of the system will start moving into our area closer to midnight and we're talking about heavy rain and gusty winds behind the front lies a cold blast. So winds will start picking up 40 to 50 MPH. And then that cold.

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Orchard Beach hosts fireworks celebration leading up to July 4

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all right everybody fourth of july we know is just days away. But the celebrations well, they were already underway well underway tonight at Orchard beach. In fact, let's head out to new spells Julio Avila right now he is there right now Julio. You got to see quite a show there tonight. I got to see a little bit of it earlier on. Tell me what's it like? Well what could be better than mixing work with play? Right. But of course this whole place, Orchard beach was just filled with people. The night sky was filled with fireworks and fortunately was just ended. Moments ago we saw different designs, different colors all to just welcome the fourth of july weekend. Now this is what it's looking like right here as you can see everyone just breaking down that was center stage where we heard a lot of music and there were a whole lot more people all around the beach, right on the patio area, right on the sand. This entire annual event put on by Councilwoman marjorie velazquez as well as the Bronx Borough President's office I love and everybody just really came together because we want to honor independence, independence of America and supporting our veterans and those who have served this country and like I said those fireworks just lighting up the whole night sky. But even before then just people out here just dancing to the music, having a great time. The entire beach was pretty much one large dance floor. They were all doing their thing just in time for the fireworks and of course this is to honor and celebrate Independence Day. And we did talk to a couple of people on the beach. They told us what it means to them. One of them told us that you know independence is everything. We also spoke to one girl who said that the first thing that comes to her mind is the red, white and blue. But of course this is the precursor of what I'm sure you can expect for this upcoming week and I'm sure we're definitely gonna be seeing a whole lot more fireworks coming up this weekend. But one thing that the Councilwoman did tell us Is that this is also kicking off the summer concert series that's also going to be happening here at Orchard Beach where there's gonna be several concerts on select weekends throughout the summer. We're in Orchard beach. I'm Julio Avila News 12.

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