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<b>News 12</b>'s Rich Barrabi was joined by Dr. James Schneider to talk about the new COVID-19 variant, and how concerning it is.

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News 12's Rich Barrabi was joined by Dr. James Schneider to talk about the new COVID-19 variant, and how concerning it is.

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Let's bring in storm watch team Scott sink off and see what the rest of the week is going to look like. It's been a dreary gray Saturday throughout the city. And we are gonna be seeing more of that moisture move in just gonna be a a sweatpants Sunday, so to speak tomorrow. What are we looking at? Temperature is gonna be in the upper forties to around 50. The rain will be moving in by midnight, foggy conditions. Yeah, that's gonna continue. There is a dense fog advisory out on Long Island and in the water. So definitely just take it slow, reduce your speed, leave plenty of following distance between you and other vehicles. If you're gonna be driving throughout the five boroughs, not gonna see really any chances of major flooding, but ponding in the normal spots, of course, in the cars and with the fog, just gotta be careful because that notorious fog plus all that rain gonna be steady, especially midday into the afternoon. That's when we're gonna see more than a half inch of rain throughout the five boroughs. So we are gonna be just seeing this dreary weather throughout the day tomorrow. So what are we looking at? Clouds, fog, continue across the city, gonna be seeing that rain shower activity moving after midnight and then by the time the sun rises, that's when the rain's gonna get steadier and heavier from the morning to midday. That's when we could see the heaviest rain areas of ponding maybe some minor flooding down towards the south shore with that fog. So definitely take it slow because the rain will be with us through the early afternoon. That's when things are gonna start to wind down as we are gonna be seeing some lingering showers towards the evening on Sunday. Even. It's the overnight. But that is when we're gonna see those clearing skies into Monday morning. The fog though. Yeah, nothing we can do about it. It's gonna be lingering here and there. Fifties on your Sunday, cloudy dreary as that black kind of day as we are gonna see drier breezier conditions on your Monday and then cool down Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday. That's your hyper local forecast.

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Turning now to your forecast with meteorologist Scott Zoff, Scott, what can you tell us? Well, right now, we're dealing with a lot of that notorious fog. We've been seeing a lot of that cloud covered the fog since this morning and really, it's just been a mild day, temperatures peaking around 51 degrees. A few notches above our average high of 48. But right now you can see all this fog. This is Calf Pasture Beach in Norwalk if you can see and visibility is reduced to a mile or less along the Long Island Sound and much of Western Connecticut. So definitely take it slow because we are seeing cloudy skies, fog and showers building into the overnight temperatures will be dropping to around 40 degrees or so milder along the sound. As we are going to be seeing that rain build throughout the morning. The heaviest is going to be midday 10 a.m. to around three o'clock in the afternoon and then things are going to be tapering off from there. So let's break things down. We're gonna see up to a half inch of rain or more along and south of 84 A little bit less to the north of 84 to Litchfield County. Not really going to be expecting any major flooding but still take it slow. The usual spots that see the ponding will be seeing them as we go into your Sunday morning, the rain will get steadier and heavier throughout the morning by 910 o'clock, see those yellows along and south of 84 going to be that from lunchtime. That's when we could see that ponding through the afternoon by 34 o'clock though. Just going to be seeing a few lingering showers areas of fog though will be continuing. Sunday will bring highs in the forties, cloudy skies. A little breezy with that on and off rain, especially from lunchtime into the afternoon. And then as we go into your Monday, we are going to be seeing 50 degrees there, breezy and cooler with those highs in the thirties and forties into the end of the work week.

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Hudson Valley

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Now, meteorologist Julian C Wright joining us to talk about not just the temperatures but also the rain out there, Julian. Absolutely. So now we are looking at a dry period in temperatures that are rather mild for this time of year, but we are going to see all that change except for the temperatures getting into our Sunday. So like I mentioned earlier for the first update, we are looking at these two systems which have been stalled out over towards the coast and for the northern parts of the northeast near Canada, those are creating a bit of a tunnel which is going to continue to flow this storm system straight into the northeast, which is not only gonna bring us cloudy conditions but even rain by the time we wake up for our Sunday morning, so expect wet conditions throughout the entirety of our Sunday. We do have some breaks though once we get to our Sunday afternoon and Sunday nights, but just notes, if you're gonna be outdoors, definitely bring the umbrella and the rain gear, but it's also not gonna be too bad of a day to just really stay inside and cozy up. Here's what we're seeing for our Sunday afternoon, around noon, widespread rain, a bit of heavier rainfall towards white plains and Yonkers. But temperatures will be into the upper forties, low fifties by the time we get into the noon hour, and that's gonna be pretty steady throughout the course of the day, especially for Yonkers in itself. But on and off showers are going to be possible, especially once we get to around five o'clock and heading closer towards dinner time. Sunday, late nights, we're still dealing with some remnants of some showers and even heavy rain possible just outside of uh Kingston as we get near our midnight hour. But things look to dry up by the time we get into our Monday morning, close to about three quarters of an inch of rainfall is gonna be expected across lower Hudson Valley. So it's not a full wash out, but it will be a day that we are really just going to want to stay inside because it's just gonna be wet near seasonal temperatures in the days ahead, mainly dry with clouds and trending chilly as we get into the later parts of next week, mainly for Tuesday is gonna start that trend. But for Hanukkah, we're looking at temperatures to be on a colder end for our Thursday into the upper thirties and the next weekend warming back up with rain chances. All right, Julian, thank you very much.

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Long Island

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It's gonna cool down again in the 10 day. Let's talk about the bigger issue, which is going to be the rain tomorrow. So we do have cloudy skies all weekend, obviously a fog out there this morning too. So that's creating some visibility issues. But on Sunday, it is a steady rain for a good chunk of the day. So today is the pick out of the weekend. There'll be some peaks of sunshine this afternoon around lunch, but not much of it. Temperatures are in the mid ff maybe even upper fifties if we get enough sunshine, but I would not count on the sun. It's gonna be a possibility that we, you got a few breaks in the clouds, but most of the day is pretty cloudy. This is 5 p.m. the sun is already set and temperatures are still in the fifties. So you don't need the heavy winter jacket. Just a light jacket. Today will do dinner time is mainly dry, but after 89 o'clock, there could be some spritzes and stray showers. It's a all day full LG wash out on Sunday, light rain in the morning, check this out. Temperatures are in the fifties in the morning, that's above average for the afternoon at this point in the year. But we don't warm up on Sunday. It's gonna stay 50 all day with this very persistent, very steady and very damp rain that just sticks around until I'd say about six o'clock or so. So, if you have any brunch lunch, early dinner plans Sunday, I just don't see a lot of opportunity for dry time for you here. So we're gonna keep that in mind. Temperatures are not bad all the way through Monday. We're hanging out in the fifties. Today's high of 56 is the warmest that we've actually seen since mid November morning. Lows are in the forties, so no worries about frost. No worries about cold when you're stepping out the door. Tuesday morning, we're back down to 36. So that's kind of setting the stage for a cooler upcoming work week, 46 there, 43 on Wednesday and 42 on Thursday. It's not the coldest set we've seen, but it is definitely pretty chilly for that first night of Hanukkah. Expected to definitely feel like it is December, but we rebound a little bit next weekend with another chance for some rain. Just a little heads up on that. But the work week does look dry. Not that we want to talk about the work week on a Saturday, but that's how it's shaping up

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New Jersey

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And speaking of a snow drought, we turn now to meteorologist Scott Sinko Scott, you know, when we can expect to see some snow here, I'm thinking it's mainly going to be towards January, February March. That's when we normally see in this El Nino weather pattern that we're currently in. So technically, we're seeing warmer weather weather for the first half of the winter and that's what we're seeing, especially for the day. Tomorrow, rain is moving on and starting in the early morning, the showers will build if you do have to do anything early, do it later in the afternoon evening. It's probably the best time with the less chance of rain, but still dealing with clouds and fog and those wet roads. So just take it slow for a dark dreary Sunday across the region, but today wasn't much better. At least starting out. Look at this over in Sussex County by Mountain Creek. Just crazy dense fog, visibility. Literally, you couldn't see anything in front of your face. And that is going to be the case as we go into tomorrow with the rain and the fog, we've just been dealing with this over the past several days as more moisture is coming on and from our south and west clouds are going to continue to build even though we saw a little bit of sunshine earlier, more rain though, pushing in towards the early morning. So let's break things down. We are going to see up to a half inch to one inch of rain throughout our Sunday. So no real chance of flood because it's going to be going slower and steadier into the afternoon. We are looking at those clouds continuing with the mild air forties overnight, with those showers beginning after midnight. Then as we go to it's 56 in the morning, things gonna get a little heavier down in South Jersey and then widespread across the state from 10 a.m. till about three o'clock in the afternoon. That's when things are going to start to taper off. Still a lingering shower or two are in the cards, but definitely be on the lookout as we had Sunday night into Monday as we are going to see clouds and fog linger. So overnight tonight, forties, mild conditions as those showers build can be a little cloudy. Could see definitely areas of fog, especially by the Jersey shore, all of those bay areas of water too. Sunday, fifties out there in Fellows and Jersey City 54 in Cream Ridge. Rainy day. More of that drier air though coming in towards the late afternoon, that's the best time to do anything outdoors. Then on Monday, we're looking at windy conditions. 52 on Monday, mostly cloudy skies. Then those temperatures take a dip. On Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday. We are looking at the slight chance for some isolated showers, sprinkles or flakes, but we're keeping our eye on that in your hyper local forecast.

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The New Normal: How concerning is the new COVID-19 variant?

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All right dr Schneider, Let's begin with this new variant. I mean we've been talking about it for weeks but now we see it is very much the dominant strain here. Is this a point of concern moving forward? I don't think it's a point of concern where we should raise the alarm bells and people should start getting frantic and worried about going backwards per se. I think what it does demonstrate is that this virus will if if allowed to spread will continue to mutate because that's what viruses do. That's kind of their goal in life is to just replicate and if they replicate they mutate. Um but and it also helps to heighten the awareness that the virus is not gone yet. We're not out of the pandemic. We're still in a pandemic. We're in a different phase thankfully. And I think we still can continue to really try to move forward now if the weather is getting warmer and we can get outside I think there will be a lot of opportunity to be more normal. However we can't just ignore that this virus has gone oh you look at the situation with the gridiron dinner right? Trying to get back to more normal first one since 2019 vaccinations required. And yet it ends up being a super spreader event and vaccine critics are pouncing on that saying, look it's not working. What's your reaction to that? Is that a fair criticism. I think it's a partial criticism and it's fair in the sense that we saw all these people who are vaccinated, who who got infected. However we have to remember what the goal of the vaccine is and the goal is to yes, one decrease the risk of getting infected, which we know it definitely helps. But more important is that it helps to really decrease the risk of severe infection and it keeps people alive. There's a dramatic decrease in the risk of severe infection or mortality having gotten vaccinated. So I so I as I understand the critics of the vaccine, I think it's really important to understand what the purpose of the vaccine is. And it's to make sure that if you do get it just like the mayor for example, he may have a little scratchy throat. That's all he gets rather than dying, which is what we saw two years ago when people are getting this before vaccines were available. Right? So to that end, even though we have the increase in cases, are we seeing an uptick in hospitals of any note? Well, we haven't really seen a significant uptake yet in hospitalizations. If you look at CDC data that actually hospitalization rates continue to go down as well as mortality rate. I think time will tell. We know that hospitalization rates and mortality rates always lag behind the increase of infection rates. And so we're hoping to not see a big surge like we saw with the original omicron will be a one that we saw in january where we saw a record number of hospitalizations across the country, including our own Children's hospital. Um, so thankfully right now we have we haven't seen that yet is hospitalizations. The better metric here in determining how serious this is. Considering the fact that even former FDA commissioner DR Scott Gottlieb this weekend said the real numbers in terms of infections are likely much higher than what's being reported because of all of the at home tests. Well, I think that's an important point. You know, we look at the number of infections going on in our local infection rate and we say well now and in Long Island where at 7% and we were at 4% a week ago or um, that's that probably underestimates um, how many people truly infected. Right. Because we know many people are are appropriately, if they have symptoms, they're testing at home and if they're positive they're not necessarily following up with a PcR and the data may not get entered into the public database. So we're probably under representing. But I think to your earlier question, the rate of hospitalization is critically important. Right? I think we know how stretched we were as the healthcare systems and hospital beds availability was really limited based on earlier experiences. And so if we can keep people out of the hospitals, it obviously is a good thing for them with those who are infected with with this. You know, the SARS COv two virus but also important is that it allows all the rest of the medical needs of the community taken care of. We can care for all the other illnesses that that we struggled with and surgeries that need to be done now. We can do them because hospital resources are available.

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