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A drive held Saturday in Centereach collected pajamas to ensure all Long Islanders have a cozy, warm sleep this holiday season.

News 12 Long Island Senior Photojournalist Ed Sweeting captured the event.

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All right back in the weather center now with rich, we are feeling these low temperatures, cold temperatures out here this morning. Thanks to that wind, teens and twenties and rich. That's what you dress for. If you're going to be outside for a prolonged period of time, you do have the cold weather conditions around the island that wind is with us today, temperatures are below average right through the afternoon hours. And for the start of Hanukkah, we're going to be looking at towards sunset at 425 the clouds going to be with us. There is a slight chance of a rain or snow shower into our afternoon similar to what we had yesterday. A little bit of a nuisance moisture coming on through the big story today. The clouds and the cold weather conditions, temperatures are below average. With those wind chills, teens and twenties throughout our day. Notice the clouds flurry snow showers north and west. They're moving southward. And throughout the day, there will be a slight chance of a passing rain or snow shower, bundle up through throughout the day. Keep your feet warm yourself warm, the gloves, the hat, the scarf with a hyperlocal high only around 41 degrees. So the big story now is the cold air you can see through the afternoon hours into this evening towards sunset at 425 to 530. Temperatures are in the mid thirties, dry weather conditions, overnight temperatures drop into the lower thirties and then the winds change warmer weather for Friday afternoon with the sunshine, mid and upper forties and then a storm coming our way for Sunday into Monday. This will impact your travel plans trying to get to any sporting events, New Jersey, Long Island out the door to do some shopping rain developing Sunday afternoon, some of the rain Sunday night will be moderate to heavy at times into the morning hours of Monday that could impact your travel plans and also with the rain, some strong gusty winds, there's potential winds 40 to perhaps 50 MPH that will impact travel plans on Sunday into Monday morning. And also those Christmas decorations you may have to secure them or take some of them inside Sunday into Monday. Highs today are in the forties, chance of that rain and snow shower. It's cold today. Cold tonight. Lows are in the thirties. Saturdays beautiful 55 and then stormy weather late Sunday into Monday with rain and gusty winds.

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Centereach holiday drive collects pajamas to ensure Long Islanders sleep warmly

there was a unique holiday donation drive held today and a local charity wants to make sure that all long Islanders go to sleep in cozy, warm pajamas news 12 senior photo journalist, Ed Sweden has this story for us from center Reach. It started right here on our porch in 2011. It started with just collecting 33 pairs. I've heard that all the boxes, which are in 90 locations now are filled. Um, everyone's texting us telling us like we're exceeding what we thought we would get. We're refilling the box. We're adding a box like everyone needs a pair of pajamas and I don't think people think about that and then just the added element of it being a holiday and to think that we can kind of add a little tradition into their holiday. I love that we're donating pajamas and yeah, it's just such a miracle. This has become a very large soft pajama ball that is rolling nonstop. And we are almost at our goal this year. It's going to be 2000 pajamas everywhere, helping hands everywhere. Companies, businesses, churches, schools, neighborhoods. It's been amazing. We're so blessed and so thankful when kids receive pajamas and it means so much to them just makes your heart heartbreak and it just warns you at the same time to know that hey, you are providing something that is actually needed in a pair of pajamas. Look at all these pajamas, this is what it's about. It's about those kids that don't have, it's an extra asset to their christmas toy and their gifts and without the community, we would not be here.

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