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The 44th Annual NYC Big Apple Grapple International Championship arm wrestling competition was held in in Farmingdale Sunday.

Contestants from New York City, Long Island, and as far away as Russia, gathered to show their strength.

There were right- and left-handed weight classes for men and women in both professional and amateur categories.

"It's a unique sport, it's one-on-one, and everyone's styles match up differently. So we find that it's so weird like you can have someone that is not that strong in the gym, but all of a sudden on the table, their tendon strength kicks in and their technique kicks in and it's unbelievable to watch these people," said Jerry Cadorette, of Boston, Massachusetts.

Winners of various competitions received up to $250.

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I'm meteorologist Rich Hoffman, hyperlocal weather forecast. We've had some chilly weather conditions. The last 24 hours we had some snow yesterday. So the cold weather still out there with a high of 39 degrees, kind of mostly sunny to a mixture of sun and clouds. And then tomorrow mostly sunny some afternoon clouds, a high of 48 degrees and we're looking at some fifties heading towards the weekend. So a little bit of that warmer weather coming our way after the deep chill the last 24 hours, you can see feels like temperatures have been in the twenties out there for this afternoon. So cold weather running errands leaving work bundle up. You have the cold numbers, the rest that say feels like temperatures in the twenties. The evening rush hour will be dry with a temperature around 34 degrees in corm 31 at 8 p.m. and down into the twenties when you wake up tomorrow morning. So we have one more morning of the cold weather, wind chills around 20 degrees and you can tomorrow afternoon in Riverhead at one o'clock, it's around 47 degrees sunshine, dry conditions, so some nice weather with that warm up coming away on Thursday before we start to see some wet weather for Friday, a few clouds around four this afternoon, that mixture of sun and clouds, it's breezy and it's cold and you can see now we're dry today. Tomorrow, we're looking at some nice weather. Thursday afternoon, temperatures will be in the mid forties. Some clouds come in Thursday night. And then by Friday morning, we're starting to see more clouds developing not as cold Friday morning. And then for your Friday afternoon, highs will be in the fifties tracking some wet weather. Now, Friday evening, some showers coming in and they're gone rather quickly. It's about a four hour window of some wet weather highs today are in the thirties. It's sun and clouds, it's cold twenties. Four tonight. Fifties. By the time we get towards Friday now, wet weather, more rain, Sunday into Monday.

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Arm wrestlers display their strength at 44th Annual NYC Big Apple Grapple International Championship in Farmingdale