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Kwanzaa, the holiday that celebrates African-American culture and history, begins today.

The seven-day holiday is marked by lighting a candle each night. Each candle represents the seven principles of the holiday, including unity, creativity and faith.

Kwanzaa was first celebrated in the United States in 1966.

Kwanzaa, the holiday that celebrates African-American culture and history, begins today.  The seven-day holiday is marked by lighting a candle each night. Each candle represents the seven principles of

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Today, any chance we get this time of year to get them outside. Go, go, go. Absolutely. Get outside. You know, yesterday, we were rich. We had temperatures in the fifties and now we're going to see a bit of a chill the next several days and take a look. Our temperatures out here for this morning are sorting out in the thirties and forties. Good morning River ahead. 37 degrees. 39 Rocky 0.40 in Smithtown. 41 in Bay Shore. Our typical average low now is 32 degrees and we're going to see more colder weather coming away over the next couple of days. So, running out the door this morning, this is what you dress for, feels like temperatures or those wind chills around freezing this morning. So, at the train platforms at the bus stops, yeah, a bit of a chill going throughout our day. And the morning sunshine goes back to the clouds during our afternoon hours as we have cold air in place later today. Look at us around three o'clock, 43 degrees in corm high temperature day of 44 that is dead from 54 degrees that we had yesterday. So really nice afternoon yesterday, even though we had the clouds now today take a look. Starting off this morning sunshine from Hempstead over to Uniondale and Elmont Floral Park out towards Bellport, Mastic to Yapan. We're looking at some sunny skies this morning and then during the afternoon with the clouds, it's gonna be feeling chilly or cold. Take a look as we go to four temperatures are in the lower forties. So towards the evening rush hour dry conditions. So it's sunshine this morning clouds this afternoon. Temperatures only in the forties, your dry for the evening rush, mostly cloudy skies overnight into tomorrow morning. Temperatures are in the thirties. Now, during the day on Wednesday, partly sunny to mostly cloudy skies, it's gonna feel cold. Notice our temperatures are in the thirties in the morning. Really don't rebound all that much tomorrow afternoon. There's going to be a slight chance of a quick Sprinkle or flurry a little bit of moisture possible during Wednesday afternoon, a reinforcing shot of cold air Thursday morning, twenties to sort off our day to low thirties. And then during the afternoon hours of Thursday, we'll have some clouds and temperatures are going to struggle to around 40 degrees. And then for the weekend, we get a warm up on Sunday, but here comes that rain, some of it could be moderate at times highs today near 44 sunshine this morning. Then the clouds come in thirties tonight mostly cloudy. It's cold, cold for the start of Hanukkah. Then the warm up towards the weekend and tracking that rain Sunday into Monday morning.

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African-American holiday of Kwanzaa begins today