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The Great Jack-O-Lantern Blaze has returned to both Long Island and the Hudson Valley for a spooky experience like no other.

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We're gonna keep it just rain coming on down. Although you may see a flurry or two for portions of Wednesday afternoon, Thursday afternoon, but that's it, a flurry or two. We do have a pretty much substantial rain chance coming our way for Sunday. As once again, like this past weekend, we deal for split weekend, Saturday looking nicer than Sunday's time frame. And so Sunday may be along the stormy side, but Wednesday and Thursday coming on up feeling colder but staying mainly dry overnight. It's a light breeze with a continued chill in the air. Here's what we can be anticipating for Sunday. We have an area, blood pressure pushing upward in towards the northeast that allows more moisture to be pulled this way and some gusty winds will start to build on in for Sunday afternoon in through Sunday evening. Once this front passes us by, by early Monday morning, we're talking about pre dawn, we'll get some colder air to come rushing on in drier air as well. So we'll shut down that rain chance that you'll be dealing with potentially if you're out and about very early in the morning. But overnight tonight, it's mostly cloudy skies, temperatures cooling down towards the mid thirties, maybe feeling in the upper twenties and a few spots whenever you do get a light breeze to come on through. The reason why it's cloudy. Hope we got a system down towards our south and west that's heading on down towards the Mid Atlantic States. So we're not seeing any of this precipitation coming on through, but we are dealing with the cloud cover coming on in overhead. So later on tonight, 845 cloudy skies, there's that Florida too in the Catskills, same thing as you go out in towards tomorrow morning. Then by tomorrow afternoon, some sunny breaks are possible, West Point, you may see a flurry of two in towards three o'clock. And then by Wednesday evening, we're clearing out those skies temperatures though, hanging out in the low twenties and unfortunately getting a little bit colder than that. So moving on in past Wednesday into Thursday, we see our high temperatures struggling to get up into the upper thirties, Friday. Much better by comparison, upper forties. Saturday's the pick of the week. 54 degrees poly cloudy skies get out and enjoy before rainy, windy conditions arrive on Sunday.

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Hopefully you can enjoy it. Check out the sunrise this morning doesn't exactly look cold, but it was a cold start to the day. Still quite a few people out on the boardwalk, enjoying the nice weather and the fresh air that was by Andre Navarro. A fantastic photo. What you can expect overnight is temperatures near 30 degrees. It's cold but it's quiet. Tomorrow, we get up to about 41 some sun in the morning. A couple of clouds in the afternoon just with the cold air in place. A storm is passing to our south that might bring in a very brief Sprinkle or flurry. I think the best chance for that is around the east end. So most of you will end up staying dry and the cold will kind of settle in for the next two days. So 6 1535 Glen Cove, 36 in Medford. You see through the day, we kind of a hard time getting to 40 degrees. We'll do it briefly. Skies will clear at night. Thursday, we'll start off with some sun again. We are in the twenties to near 30 but not much of a wind. So it won't feel that bad. And in the afternoon trying to get up to 40 you do see that extra cloud cover around with the cold air. Now, by Friday skies are clearing, we get more of a southwest wind and temperatures begin to warm up. So Friday afternoon will be nice and seasonable. We hit about 50 Saturday sunny skies around the tri state temperatures in the low to mid fifties. So definitely that mild feel and then our weather will change late Sunday. So the good news is now that most of Sunday will be dry. The rain is trending later in the day. This is four o'clock rains on our doorstep. Most of this wet weather is not going to come through um until even after eight o'clock. So this is more of a Sunday evening, Sunday night thing and the rain will clear by Monday morning. So it's fast moving, but when the front passes by, it will be windy. So just kind of keep that in mind if you're going to be traveling. So cold weather will settle in for tomorrow and Thursday temp me 4050 sat uh Friday, Saturday looks amazing. There's that rain on Sunday with highs near 60 will clear out and get back to cooler weather for next week.

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The Great Jack O'Lantern Blaze: Pumpkin carving tips with Carol Hough

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The great Jack O Lantern blaze has now returned to both the Long Island and the Hudson Valley for a spooky experience like no other. You have a night walk features more than 7000 hand carved pumpkins for you to check out and it's just open to visitors. Of course, it just happens to be the first weekend of fall. Also to tell you a little bit about the blaze and tips on how to carve the best pumpkin around is head carver, Carol. How Carol, what's the first step? What do we need to keep in mind with the pumpkin first? You wanna find a great nice shaped pumpkin that doesn't have any blemishes or soft spots, obviously anything with a soft spots, probably rotting already. So you don't wanna waste your time carving that. Um We already carved this one out the bottom. Yes, we carve all holes. When we start our carving, we carve the whole out of the bottom. If you leave the stem intact up top, the pumpkin will last longer. It's structurally stronger and it will last longer. Interesting. What tips you have for people who are trying to make the pumpkins last longer too. Yes. So we're gonna, the first part is when you cut the whole out of the bottom. Right. That's gonna help it last longer. And then once we cut this out, we want it big enough for your hand to go inside. Carol, just turn it around. Yeah. So it's gonna be this way. This is a tricky part. I feel like there we go. Look at all that. So this, you wanna make sure you really scoop this out. Well, so we use ice cream spades. These work great. They're heavy duty. You can really put a lot of pressure on them. Any of the tools that you get from the normal kit in the store are fine. But these ice cream spades are really strong and really help you scoop out the pumpkin. Can you use a regular ice cream scooper or no, you can, we like these better. It has a nice flat shape, it has a little edge on it. That's great that but once you scoop this out really well, that's gonna help your pumpkin last longer. You want a nice clean inside, no slime, no seeds left inside. Make sure you get this inside edge really well clean. Pumpkin is gonna last a lot longer. That's good to know. Now, at your events uh both in the Hudson Valley and Long Island. Uh What can people expect to see? 7000 Pump? I can't even imagine how long there's many different themes we have everything from sea creatures to circus sideshow, circus train carousel. Um, a lot of fun. It's very family friendly. A lot of things to, for the kids, keep them entertained. And then we have all of our live Jacker lanterns, which is all we have faces. Hundreds of faces. We have an alien tunnel. We have a star tunnel. These are all hand carved pumpkins. Right. Yes, we have a crew of about 15 that carve all these pumpkins weekly. We carve about 800 to 1000 pumpkins a week. There's probably about 6 to 700 in the show that get repa replaced constantly. Ok. And then when you go to the actual Jekyll Antrim blaze, there's synchronized lighting and music that goes through it as you're walking through and it's just an amazing, amazing experience. I know you've never into it. No, I know you have to go this year. Yes, you have to come down and see us. You'll enjoy it. So now as far as a pumpkin, like when you're carving it, is there anything any techniques that you can give any tips that you can give people when they're carving? Well, a lot of people get self conscious over it. There's nothing about this. You don't want anything about the pumpkin to be perfect. The eyes are different sizes that's fine, gives it more character, gives a little bit more personality. Um I can suggest that you keep your carving to the front plane of the pumpkin, if you go out too far to the sides that will affect the structure as well and it'll tend to collapse because when you look like you have a grandpa pumpkin, it's all curled in. I need these special tools which are very strong. It cuts through here like butter for the most of the jack lanterns we do, which would be the faces, the alien tunnel and the, the star tunnel. We use these sheet rock knives. Ok. Good to know. Excellent Carol. Thank you so much for being here. Really appreciate it. The great Jack O Lantern blaze runs through November on both Long Island and in the Hudson Valley. And if you want some tickets, just head on over to our website news 12 dot com and click on numbers and links.

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