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As a blizzard blasts Long Island, getting around will be difficult and potentially dangerous.

News 12's Erin Colton is out in Mobile 12, and says snow has already covered roadways in Suffolk County.

Plows were out in droves, especially on the larger highways where commuters will need to get through.

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Highway superintendents say they will not be sanding and salting yet this morning, adding they did that last night.&nbsp;&nbsp;

Now, they are just plowing since snow will be coming down at a steady pace through the morning rush.

News 12 meteorologists say the heaviest snow will fall from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m., with snowfall rates of 1 to 2 inches per hour.&nbsp;

Drivers are urged to take it slow, and stay off the roads if possible.

As a blizzard blasts Long Island, getting around will be difficult and potentially dangerous.

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All right back in the weather center with rich now underrated, part of all the different weather aspects today it's cold out there. Yeah, it's turning colder rich. We had temperatures yesterday in the fifties and sixties. And now with the cold front past Long Island, we're looking at temperatures feeling like the thirties down to 30 in Hempstead. With that gusty wind reach 20 to 30 MPH. The colder weather is with us, the rain tapering off, still some drizzle and residual moisture left over Long Island right now. Going towards noon time, better weather conditions drying out coming your way for this afternoon. The evening rush hour looks quite nice. So you can see the heaviest rain is now east of Long Island. The cold front is east of Long Island. We have those north to northwest winds at around 15 to 30 MPH. Still some wet roads. So give yourself some extra travel time. And with that gusty wind two hands on the steering wheel for today. So by noontime, here's that sunshine through the afternoon, we get towards the evening rush hour at 5 p.m. 41 but a wind chill around 29 degrees. So colder weather for the evening rush hour clear skies tonight, tomorrow morning, temperatures around 27 to 32 degrees. So we'll keep an eye to the sky for the sunshine on the way, the drier conditions coming in. And as we go through the next several days and several hours here, we're looking at dry weather conditions through this evening. So the weather is getting better and it's also turning a little colder. You can see here at 1245 some clouds but otherwise dry weather conditions a bit breezy and temperatures in the mid forties, dry weather for the evening rush hour overnight, colder weather coming in towards the morning hours of your Tuesday, temperatures will be in the up twenties to low thirties and with the wind, it will feel more like around 20 to 25 Tuesday afternoon, lots of sunshine, a bit of a chill temperature around 44 degrees dry weather heading into Tuesday night, more dry weather into Wednesday and then Thursday, Friday, most of our work week now will be dry and you can see that Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, dry. We'll watch the threat of some showers developing late Sunday into Monday. Recapping your hyperlocal forecast today. Mid-forties for today, the rain giving way to sunshine. It's gonna feel colder around the island. Tonight, sun goes down at 425 your overnight lows twenties and thirties. It's cold to start off Tuesday morning. Then Tuesday afternoon, you're going to deal with sunshine at 4445 Wednesday. Colder on Thursday, dry Friday, Saturday, rain coming in late Sunday into Monday.

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Plows out in droves across Suffolk County roadways