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Pauline Frommer, editorial director for Frommer's, has helpful travel tips to make it a bit easier.

Whether you're booking a long-distance flight for the upcoming holidays or a weekend getaway, Pauline Frommer has tips to help make it a bit easier.

HOLIDAY TRAVEL TIPS

New Jersey

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A check of your local weather with storm watch team, meteorologist. H the good morning there. It's a great start to our day. Some fo is expected to dissipate as we head into the afternoon time frame. But notice our temperatures here very close to 60 degrees. That is a big departure from where we should be for this time as we tiptoeing into the month of December the first weekend of December and it does not feel like it now come, tomorrow will notice the rounds of showers heading from the overnight very early start. We're talking like 45 o'clock in the morning. That is pretty persistent throughout the first half of the day, especially right around 12 o'clock, we notice a little bit of decrease with the rain showers, but it will be on and off when it's all said and done. Notice our cumulation here close to an inch and some portions of the state, especially talking about Essex Union and Hudson counties, but it's cloudy and mild and I think that's really the silver lining for this weekend. It's gray, but it's still nice and warm and definitely great to head out with a little bit of less layering. Right as we head into the afternoon time frame, very close to 60 degrees. Today, the clouds will continue to build and thicken throughout the evening time frame. By the overnight, not truly impactful here, we'll notice some rain falling and then more pockets of heavier and moderate rainfall come in to play right around eight o'clock tomorrow morning. So if you are heading out for Sunday service, make sure that you grab your umbrella as you're heading out the door. As you'll notice it will feature a rainy day. Rounds of rain are potentially, I'm going to be impacting large portions of central and northern New Jersey, especially after two o'clock and heading into five things slowly start to improve. Clearing out nicely. Clouds are staying with us, stay with us for the exclusive 10.

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Brooklyn

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First full weekend of December officially upon us, but it doesn't really feel like it out there at all. Was that 60 degrees for Saturday? Really nice. Can't complain a little wet though today. Yeah, it was a little wet a couple of hours ago, but at least we got some dry conditions to kick off the weekend. That will be quickly changing by Sunday. Here's what you can expect. Waves of rain starting Saturday night into Sunday night. So that's going to be a long duration storm where we are expecting rounds of rain, steady rain with a few downpours possible. So you're gonna have to watch for some puddles ponding on area roadways. And if you live somewhere that has poor drainage, you're probably going to see some more of that localized flooding. In terms of tomorrow morning, we're starting off chilly. Temperatures near 46 degrees areas of fog will be to move into our area. It will lift and clouds will still be with us throughout the afternoon with temperatures topping out near 58 degrees muted sunshine. So not seeing that sunshine that we like to see, but at least it's going to remain dry. During the evening, it is still going to remain dry with clouds, but showers do arrive late after midnight. That's where we start to see some of that wet weather pushing through. But at least we got these unseasonably mild temperatures. Our average high 49 degrees. We're not going to see the forties until the midweek. And that's also where we start to see there. I say some festive flakes returning back to our area. But in the meantime, let's just enjoy the dry weather. So some clouds and fog to start our Saturday, it is going to remain dry throughout the day. Temperatures will be topping out near 58 degrees and we got some rain.

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Westchester

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First weekend of December. But hey, it feels like November still. We have mild air in place. Unfortunately, this is gonna keep fog around for the first half of the morning, especially for Westchester Rockland, maybe Putnam County getting in on widespread fog for the rest of the morning too. So basically the lower Hudson Valley has the best risk for that temperatures warm up pretty quickly. We're talking near 50 by the time you hit lunch and we could, in places like Yonkers and S A 287 hits 60 degrees what in December? But again, it does come with a lot of cloud cover. So it's not a beautiful looking day. There'll be some peaks of sun this afternoon today though. Really isn't a big issue. If you have afternoon plans. The fog is a slight problem for morning plans tonight. We do have rain mostly after midnight. So if you're a late night owl, you're getting in on that Sunday morning, it's a wash right from the start. Mostly white rain, but there will be pockets of heavy rain throughout the morning and the afternoon on Sunday. I really don't see much dry time if any during the daylight on Sunday it goes soup weather, it goes gloomy and, you know, it's not cold but it's gonna feel cold when you have that kind of rain just so widespread across the area. Monday morning commute. Not that we want to talk about the commute on a Saturday morning, but either way Monday morning does look good if you're planning it. Ok. How about rain again? Not much if any today. But tomorrow I am expecting half of an inch to an inch of rain across the Hudson Valley. So that's pretty decent. But it happens over the course of the whole day, 100% guarantee it does rain. But again, we're not expecting this to be a really heavy rain. It's just a persistent steady rain all day. Temperatures drop into the forties for the upcoming week.

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Long Island

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You know, I watched it for so many years and to be seeing and hosting it is a different level. So it looks like everyone else enjoyed their time as well. They did. So this wet weather will get out of here for a little bit. You can have some hot chocolate and dry off tonight after work. And then tomorrow we get a little bit of a break from the rain. Saturday will be your day to get out, do some decorating, do some shopping. Even on Sunday. If you are out, it will be wet. So just have that umbrella. We'll be talking about on and off rain for much of the day, especially the afternoon and evening. Look at your highs this weekend in the fifties. So it is going to be mild. Um So at least, I guess that's a good thing. If it's going to be raining, at least it won't be cold right now. We're in the forties. You see those fifties southwest, this mild air will be in place for the day tomorrow. A little break in the morning, we have some low clouds and fog to kick off the day. But the afternoon is not bad. I think we get a couple of bright spots in the clouds, seeing some sunshine here and there. It's a little bit unsettled but it's dry at night. Light rain is back Sunday morning. There's not much until the afternoon and you see some heavier steadier rain will come through. It will be appearing kind of like today. Um, let's say between about two o'clock and eight tonight, 10 o'clock, most of that rainfall should get out of Suffolk County by 9 to 10 o'clock. Monday will be dry one more mild day and then we'll turn a little bit cooler as our winds will shift to the northwest. How much rainfall are we expecting? About a half an inch, maybe close to an inch in some spots? And that will be through Monday morning after that. The drier weather is back most of next week looks nice with mostly sunny skies and temperatures in the forties.

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Hudson Valley

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Connecticut

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I can. And if you're getting out of town for the weekend, you'll run into some rain just about everywhere. On Sunday, Saturday is going to be the dry day and the warmer day, but Sunday will feature some very soggy conditions all around the northeast. There's going to be a much larger system coming our way and this is going to be packing a lot more rain than what we just had. So what's where tomorrow? No rain in sight. They don't have to about the rain gear, but it will be a mostly cloudy day. A little bit warmer with temperatures in the fifties. I would still grab something warmer to where early in the day by the afternoon, you may not need all these layers, but it's a nice day. So get out and enjoy it. We don't often see temperatures like this in December to December. This is meteorological winter and it's a great time to do some star gazing. So we do have a couple of things heading our way for the month. Mercury at its greatest elongation on December 4th, best time to view the planet, which is very, very difficult to see because it's always low on the horizon. Look for that after sunset, the earliest sunset of the year is coming our way as well. That will be December 7th and we also have the gem, its media in a couple of weeks by December 13th and 14th. So stay tuned. I'll have more on that coming your way in the meantime, here's that extended forecast. Temperatures are mild for several days. Fifties right through the weekend. I think Monday and Tuesday are trending drier. Wednesday. More clouds could be a shower and then it's colder after that back into the forties. And that's a look at your local weather.

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Live Life Better: Travel tips for booking your next getaway

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Whether it's booking a long distance flight for the upcoming holidays or a weekend getaway. Many of us just get overwhelmed when we're planning a vacation. You can say that again. Well, Pauline Frommer, editorial director from Fromer is here to help us destress with our holiday travel with some great tips to make it all a bit easier. All right. So let's start with certain days of the week. I always hear that it would be cheaper if we book our flights on certain days. There just was a study that came out looking at billions of data points and they found that statistically if you book your ticket on a Sunday, you spend 6% less domestically and 13% less on international travel. And when I say book, I'm not talking about flying. I'm talking about when you put the money down. Ok. Now we should try to book early for our trips. Is that the best way to get like any kind of a deal? Not necessarily if you're flying domestically 28 days before travel is the sweet spot. You book farther out than that the airlines know they've got you last minute. Also, you get charge, pop dollar for national travel. The sweet spot is between 2 to 4 months in advance. So again, there's a difference. Now, what about the actual day that we're flying? Especially around the holidays? That can always be so expensive, especially the Saturday before everyone wants to go that Friday or Saturday before everybody wants to go on the Wednesday before Thanksgiving and return on the Sunday. So avoid those dates. It's ugly. It may upset your family. But if you can fly on the holiday itself, you'll save the most money. But who wants to do that? The morning, six o'clock flight get there in time. You have half corners for Thanksgiving. No problem. Just went away. All right. Now let's talk about hotels. When should we be booking those? It depends on whether you're going to a resort destination or to an urban destination. If you're going to a city one week before travel is usually the sweet spot. If that makes you nervous, get a reservation, you can cancel and then search in the days before you're getting to the destination for resorts, the sweet spot is three months out. So if you're going to Hawaii, the Caribbean, Florida, that's when you wanna book those hotels. So, you know, a lot of times it's that last minute trip that gets you. Because how do you save when you're booking that very last minute? Well, you can save on last minute travel if you're going to a city. Uh, because hoteliers get nervous if that bed is not slept in, they've lost money. And so they will often really discount at the last minute in urban destinations. All right, let's talk about road trips, road trips. I love road trips. And if you want to save on gas, AAA has your back, they have a, uh, a thing called the fuel cost calculator. You put in the year and the make of your car you put in your destinations that you're going to and they shoot back how much it's going to cost you in fuel, Pauline. Great advice. Thank you so much. And happy traveling, happy traveling, traveling.

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