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Allen, you have been telling us that this fire weather warning continues into Tuesday and that the risk now is perhaps worse than what we had even late last week. Yeah, it's like a snowball effect. It just keeps adding on and on and until we get any sort of really meaningful rain, like over a half an inch, that's not gonna stop any time soon. And the fire that we were just talking about is the Jennings Creek fire again, only about 10 20% contained right now. It's not impacting our air quality, but that's gonna change because right now it's a west wind about 14 miles an hour. But look what happens overnight. It goes more like northwest and that's what's going to bring some of that dangerous smoke plume right back to our borough around 7 to 9 in the morning is what I'm seeing right now again, when there's gust of wind 33 miles an hour, that's a problem and it's coming straight from that fire. So again, if it smells like a campfire outside, you know, exactly where it's coming from, and unfortunately, that means you gotta have a mask on, stand by any sort of smoke you breathe in can be dangerous. There have been headaches happening. I know a lot of my friends, same idea in a lot of us Bronx sites. Just make sure you're keeping yourself safe. Listen to your body super important because that smoke smell is still possible throughout the day, Tuesday. And any other fires that do pop up can only make that situation worse with the wind that's not gonna let up at all during the day. I see it at least 30 miles an hour with these gusts starting at around eight or nine in the morning and continuing throughout the afternoon and into the evening. So, not only is it dangerous for the air quality, it's dangerous for the fires and it's going to make things feel a whole lot colder as well. Again, all the ingredients here. These are my four ingredients that if they all check off on the checklist, it's gonna be a problem. Which the of course, yes, we saw those gusts over 25 miles an hour. It's gonna be bone dry. You're going to definitely want to have that chapstick out there. It's gonna be super dry. So it's gonna be a sunny sky again, maybe a cloud or two, but it's going to be a dry ground because that rain really did not help out at all. And then, yeah, I was telling you about the cold. Look at this during the afternoon with the wind it will feel like the upper forties. That's it in Norwood, in North Bay Chester. So jackets, even for the afternoon and then winter jackets scarves feels like temperature in Norwood 27 Wednesday morning, Mott Haven 29 and 30 in Soundview. It's been a long time since we had, feels like temperatures down into the twenties. Keep that in mind it does slowly warm up without any rain in sight for the weekend.

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