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News 12's Erin Colton was joined by Pauline Frommer to talk about how to save on flights and hotels this vacation season.

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All right. Well, let's give you a check of your weather. Now with storm watch team, meteorologist, Alan. No, Alan, you would tell me a little bit about how I should plan out my weekend. What are we working with this week? Oh, yeah, it's going to be a 5050 weekend. And unfortunately that a negative side of the 5050 might be a biggie. But before we get to that, let's continue to talk about this cold because it's that December cold that out the door this morning this morning, you felt it tomorrow morning especially. You will want that winter jack. It'll actually be near freezing for northern parts of our borough. 32 for Riverdale. A bit milder. The farther south you go. So th 35 City Island, 37. But hat and scarf. I would recommend that for tomorrow morning and into the afternoon, the clouds will keep us chilly all day long. Honestly, me, we might touch that 40 degree mark briefly there at around two or three o'clock. But most of the day will be in the thirties. Should generally be dry. Can't roll out an isolated Sprinkle, but we have a chance for a couple of snowflakes heading into Hanukkah, especially during the afternoon and evening as the sun sets, a couple of flakes are possible. Again, it's not gonna stick, it's just going to add to the festive feel here into the evening hours, it'll still stay chilly. And then the weekend ahead, this is where it's going to be a potential problem. We have an area of low pressure, warm air ahead of it. So Saturday is actually going to be pretty nice. But on Sunday, there's going to be plenty of moisture and rain and the possibility of a couple of thunderstorm are out there. That's why I got that yellow highlight on the 10 day forecast. Those high temperatures well into the sixties, in fact, but it's not a day where you want to spend time outdoors as it stands now. Ok. Is it going to be an all day storm? We're expecting, we're still working out the details on that. Today's Tuesday. This is for Sunday, but the potential is there for the second half of the day, especially for significant rain. Ok. So we still have a lot to go. Keep it here with news 12 will be on top of it all.

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Let's take a look outside through a community camera overlooking Stanford. We see those clouds moving in. Let's get an update on your forecast with meteorologist Jonathan Cuban John. Hey, what's going on, Becky? Now, listen, we're going to work with this chill over the next couple of days. Thirds is going to be the coldest day. You're going to need those hand warmers for sure as you're stepping out the door with it, feeling like the twenties for a lot of us to open up that morning and then we're going to see a nice warm up heading into the weekend, but unfortunately, it does come a little bit of some rain and we could see some strong damaging winds for your Sunday. We're gonna wait through the rest of this afternoon. Numbers well into the thirties, maybe a 40 degree reading here here or there, but notice it's mainly gray. A lot of cloud cover won't rule out a poke of some sunshine for some spots. But again, most of that bright sky that we saw was earlier this morning. We fast forward into tonight, still sitting pretty quiet, but it's gonna be a little bit more on the chillier side and a touch colder as stepping out the door for your tomorrow morning numbers, upper twenties, lower thirties. That's what it'll feel like with just a little bit of some wind and then we'll try to get into some clearing for your tomorrow evening and into your tomorrow night. And that's gonna open door for some colder air to start off your Thursday again. Thursday is gonna be the coldest day from start to finish daytime highs. It's not making it out of the thirties. 34 for Redding, 36 for West 37 from Greenwich all the way up to Bridgeport. And again, that looks like it's gonna be the best that we do. We fast forward into your weekend Saturday again, we're gonna watch the system pushing in from west to east as this front really is gonna push out that clear sky, which we're gonna really work with for your Saturday. Saturday looks a little bit better than last week. Last Friday wasn't too bad. Right. We had those milder temperatures but it was very gray. We're gonna work with sunshine for this, this weekend, at least for the first half before we're gonna find clouds fill in late Saturday night into your sun. And then yes, we're watching some rain as we're pushing into the later part of your Sunday morning for right now. Timing, of course, can definitely, you know, move out and about, we can give things maybe an hour or two early or later as we're pushing forward into again the late morning. So do expect that if you do have plans for the second half of the week and that commute home back into the area as we can see, steady to heavy rain, really picking up into your Sunday night. Not to mention some strong damaging winds. Uh, again, could cause for a little bit of some tricky travel. But do you notice mild temperatures continue to stick around as we head into the start of next week, Becky John. Thank you. And just a reminder this weekend.

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Hudson Valley

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All the best of luck on the big stage. Some amazing voices there, Matt putting you in the, the feel of the season, right? And if that doesn't do it, maybe a flurry in spots tomorrow or Thursday can do it as well. The rest of today staying dry, it's mostly cloudy outside right now. A hyperlocal planet for White Plains going from the low forties this afternoon to early this evening, gradually through the thirties. Let's head to the map right now and talk about where we go from here really as we go into tonight and over the next couple of days. So tonight we'll stay kind of mostly cloudy all throughout the Hudson Valley. Temperatures will bottom out into early tomorrow morning in the upper twenties and low thirties. It'll be a night. You want the winter coat, the gloves and the hat, all of that. Now, tomorrow there can be a spotty flurry at any point in the morning into the early afternoon. Temperatures again, close to around 40 degrees all throughout the Hudson Valley. Any little snowflake activity you see will not be anything significant, but you could just see a few of those in the sky. 42 was where the high has been today but dressed warmly. It's chilly this afternoon, of course, turning colder later on tonight with lows after midnight in the upper twenties to low thirties. Here's the extended 10 day tomorrow and Thursday still chilly right around 40 degrees each day could have a flurry in spots but a lot of dry time as well. Friday. Sunning clouds a bit warmer. Upper forties, fifties over the weekend, Saturday is still the pick of the week before some rain and breezy conditions move in on Sunday next week. Looking dry Monday through Thursday with highs in the forties.

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Long Island

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I'm meteorologist Rich Hoffman. You're a hyper local weather forecast, heading throughout the rest of our day. We do have the cloudy skies with us. A temperature around 44 degrees for the high and then this evening going out for dinner, you're looking at temperatures in the low forties and then by tomorrow morning, mostly cloudy skies, temperature around 32 degrees. Waking up on your Wednesday morning, there is a slight chance of a Sprinkle or a flurry overnight as war warm air comes in from the west. So you're seeing the clouds here and some moisture we have what we call an Alberta Clipper kind of screaming on by here and it's gonna go to the south and there's gonna be some clouds. And as it moves south of Long Island, there will be the chance overnight of a quick little rain, snow shower or Sprinkle or flurry overnight into the first part of our Wednesday hour by hour, the rest of today, 42 degrees five o'clock in Bay Shore at 38 at 8 p.m. There's the clouds and again, slight chance of a Sprinkle of flurry into your Wednesday morning. You can see here on our weather maps. Then by Wednesday afternoon, mostly cloudy skies and Wednesday has a chill to the air. A high of only 41 and there will be a slight chance even Wednesday afternoon of a quick little rain or snow shower. You see that right here at around five 45 with temperatures in the thirties. Another reinforcing shot of cold air coming in towards Thursday morning, temperatures are going to be in the upper twenties and low thirties. Then mostly cloudy skies, Thursday afternoon, a slight chance of a quick little Sprinkle moving on through and then the warm air comes in going towards your weekend and wet. Here you go Sunday. This is towards Sunday evening. It's raining. There could be some moderate to heavy rain, Sunday afternoon through Sunday evening and some strong gusty winds. We could be looking at Sunday afternoon with winds gusting near 40 MPH. So we need to be weather aware for that Sunday time frame a high near 44 today with mostly cloudy skies thirties tonight, mostly cloudy chance of a rain or snow shower through tomorrow. Cold disorder of Hanukkah. And there's the rain Sunday into Monday morning.

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Today's weather looks good. Another calm day Hoboken, you'll notice temperatures into the forties. Much more seasonal feel. The clouds also passing and not much expected as far as things coming out from the sky that will change come tomorrow with some windswept flurries also heading into Thursday as well, but significant sharp cold front with the potential for some widespread rain. Late Sunday is also on tap for us this week, gust forecast tomorrow look like this out of the north. That's going to continue to filter in that colder drier air across the region for tomorrow at times, gusting upwards of 2030 mile per hour range. It's just going to add on to that cold feel, especially for Thursday morning. Some clouds right now, that's what we're noticing and far off to our west. We're tracking this system here that's bringing a lot of snow across Pittsburgh, eventually our neighbors in Pennsylvania and that will be adding on to the woods, swept flurries for tomorrow. Wednesday. As far as today goes, it's nice. It's calm, the potential for the flurry start up as early as six o'clock in the morning. Feels like temperatures dropping down to the twenties, you need all the layers, it will feel significantly colder tomorrow. Waking up as we progress throughout the day, we'll notice a mixture of sun and clouds, more clouds than sun and the temperature staying stuck in the forties. The potential for a Sprinkle is also there Wednesday afternoon. We clear out nicely heading Thursday. We get a repeat and do over. I think this day is a bit more likely for us to notice those snowflakes lingering about with a seasonal feel and that festive look overall tying in that colder air along with that look as well. Here's an exclusive look at our extended attend day here, forties as we say hello and happy Hanukkah and heading into the afternoon and evening time frame into the fifties. But a cold front approaches on Sunday.

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The New Normal: Tips on how to save on your next flight and hotel

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All right. Let's get right to pauline. Frommer, editorial director of Frommer's because this topic is on the mind of so many people as we head into summer time, a time when most families vacation families have got to know that things are costing more these days. So if they're just starting to plan pauline, where should they look first? Well, you want to be traveling where other people aren't traveling. So how do you figure that out? Interestingly, there are tools that you can use on the internet sites like google flights, sky scanner, uh, price hopper, you put in either the word anywhere in your search or you leave the search blank. Usually there will be descriptions there on how to do it. We also have them on Frommers dot com and you can see where the cheapest flights are right now by simply leaving it up to the universe to decide where you're going to go or you can travel when people aren't traveling. We know that because many students go back to school in the last two weeks of august prices plummet. Then that's airfares, That's hotels. That's pretty much everything you pay for for vacations. If you can put off your summer vacation. Till then you'll pay a lot less. And the advice about going to that browser and putting in anywhere or even just nothing. And finding the cheapest price. I saw that it was like a hack on Tiktok. But it's incredible that that is a thing. That's where you can get that information. Yeah, I mean, that's the thing. People are going to be traveling in record numbers this summer, but they're going to be bumping up against staff shortages that have caused the airlines, the cruise lines to basically cut capacity. A number of airlines have announced that they're going to be flying less this summer simply because they can't support as many flights. The cruise lines to are having big problems with staffing. So while cruising is one of the most affordable vacations out there. You have companies like Norwegian telling people who were already booked on the pride of America. I think that ship is called goes to Hawaii. They've been canceling people who thought they had a vacation on that ship simply because they can't go out with a full ship because they've only been able to staff to 50% of the usual levels. And we've been seeing these staff shortages and going back to planes. The next question, should we fly, drive, find somewhere very close to our homes, Which one is better right now? Well, we know that traditionally Americans drive to vacations in the summer and year round. I mean only about 35% of Americans even have a passport. So most of us are getting into cars and if you have a family of four, that's always going to be less expensive especially this year, even with the cost of gas. So you may want to take a vacation that's closer in because transportation costs are going to be so high or you want to be savvy in how you do your road trip. You want to get your car tuned before you leave and you want to make sure that the oil is full. You want to pack lightly because the heavier the car is, the more gas will use. You want to drive the speed limit. It's all of these things that we learned in the 19 seventies that we have to take into account today but not available in the 19 seventies to pretty good apps. That will tell you where the cheapest gas is, wherever you are. They're called gas price Watch and Gasbuddy. They're run by volunteers who simply key in how much they're paying for gas and so you can quickly see which are going to be the cheapest stations where you are. It's incredible how a little bit goes a long way when you're dealing with these gas prices. And I'm, you answer my next question, which was, you know, people, are they changing their destinations because of high gas prices and yeah, maybe they go a little bit closer. Maybe they do what you said, where they keep the car lighter, all of those things. But let's get back to planes. The next question I have for you is are there any real bargain airlines out there anymore ones where you don't have to pay additional fees? Well, um, there are bargains lines, they have names like Avello, like breeze if you're going to europe. One of the cheapest ways to do it is on a new airline called play. There's another one called Norse, which is coming out in august. These airlines are much, much less expensive than the legacy carriers, but They all have ugly fees. So if you want to choose a seat that could be $50 extra. If you want to check a bag, that could be $100 extra. But even with these extras, you're going to pay less than you would on many routes on delta on American un United. Even with the extra fees, you may save money. Yeah, I booked a trip a couple of weeks ago, JetBlue, you know, figured it was pretty normal and I clicked the cheapest option and then I got to the airport and they were like, oh you got, you gotta pay for that check bag. And I was like, oh okay, another 65 bucks. So it really does pay to kind of look at the fine print when you are booking that really cheap flight just so you're not surprised. Yes, absolutely. I mean the silver lining of the pandemic was it allowed? It got rid of a lot of the ugly fees that the airlines used to charge when you had to change a ticket. Nowadays you can change without an additional fee except if you book basic economy. So always read the fine print because as we learned life can change on a dime and yes, you're gonna get hit with lots of extra fees if you choose the basic economy tickets. So so realize that it's not just about the basic fee. It's also about how you travel, let's let's keep up with with airline travel because yesterday international travelers, it was decided they no longer have to show that negative covid test to enter the country. Do you think that that is going to change things? Do you think more people are going to head to places like your places where you had to show that negative test? I think it will. Yeah. Absolutely. I think you had a lot of people that staying within the U. S. Because they were so nervous about the possibility of getting stranded overseas. It will also lower costs in that you may not have to buy as much travel insurance as you would have before this was announced. It's great, great news for travelers and and speaking of europe other than the plane ticket to get their europe will be way more affordable for americans. And and you said other places too. Yes. Yes. The dollar is incredibly strong right now for europe. It now is on a par with the euro considering that the euro was a dollar 35 to the dollar. Uh just a couple of years ago, That's a 35% discount on everything in the countries that carry the euro. And that's not just in Europe Europe, that's also in parts of the Caribbean. So if you go where the dollar is strong. Yes, it may be more expensive to fly there than it was in years past. But if you take a longer trip that cost is going to be advertised and you're gonna, you could possibly save money. Dollar is also incredibly strong in peru, in Mexico, across the border in Canada. Um you know, inflation is high but the strength of the dollar should help the sting of that in many countries. This may be the last question. Before we take a little break, let's get into the Expedia's, the Travelocity's the price line. Are there any best places to search to save money on vacation deals as a whole. Yes, absolutely. We actually do a study of this every year on farmers dot com and re found that for airfares, a country company called sky scanner dot net, not a famous one did far better than the other, more famous search engines. In fact, Expedia orbitz and Travelocity didn't even make it into our top 10. And I think google flights was number seven. It found google flights found the cheapest flights exactly zero times but they're very fast. They can find you different ways to fly. But sky scanner dot net was the best for airfares and for hotels, we found a pretty much a tie between hotels combined dot com, another obscure site and google hotels. It's pretty amazing that you know, being a little more online friendly social media savvy, it can save you money, definitely if you know those places to go. Yes. Well speaking of social media, just last week, a new site debuted on instagram called at hotel. And because it doesn't have to deal with the contractual issues that keep costs at kind of the same level from site to site. For hotels, basically, hotels have a deal with Expedia orbitz Travelocity that they won't put really, really low discounts on the site. You're finding much better deals there.

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