the other thing i'm noticing, look at all of these plants still blooming and even dandy lions and lots is of plants confused and trees in bloom. that's going to turn around by the weekend. numbers closer to where they should be. still dealing with pockets of fog, 59. we jumped a few degrees. definitely well above normal. around the city a little cooler on staten island and a degree cooler in jersey city. 48 the cool spot on the map and temperatures spread right there. these numbers are cooler than they were yesterday but we are still shooting for numbers well 63. so it's official, every single and so far in december i mean so many days 60 plus we could tie or break that record of consecutive days and there are a few records in reach today. we could see a new record but probably not in the city with the record being 67 and we are shooting for 63 but we could see them at newark and jfk as well so tune in tonight and you. westchester. it's better at the airports. we are going to see the clouds kind of race by over head. wind starts to pick up, south west wind. we warm up and wait for this

started by digging up dandy lions. you don't pull them because the roots go down so you have to dig down in a hundred degree heat in the summer here. six years old. feeling sorry for myself. all my friends were out playing, swimming. i was working, i would say, why does my father hate me and their father loves them. from then on, i graduated to other things. shoveling stalls, digging ditches. digging post holes. whatever. and that was the best thing. >> he worked you? >> he wanted to instill the work ethic. because he knew, if you don't learn to work, to be more productive, to improve your efficiency, to cooperate with other people, at an early age, you may never learn the habits so you can't make a contribution and can't be successful. but as i said, i bore the brunt of it. years later, i asked my father, i said, pop, why were you so much harder on me than my younger brothers. he said, son, you plum wore me out. >> so despite troubles you had growing up, you wound up m.i. it. you said you never had the intention of wo

today i was noticing some dandy lions starting to come up. here's future weather.at 8:00 a.m. and being troising a break in the cloud cover. very early and the full moon peaks at 6 tooichl 11 and you could catch it as we work our way into the noon time hour and by 3:30, notice scattered showers starting to evolve on weather. we're tracking rain across the area and we'll continue to track rain as we work our way toward 8:00 p.m. and on saturday we're wokking with on and off rain and temperatures in the mid-50s by dinner time. >> overall, saturday is going to be the coolest out of my holiday weekend and still a good 15 degrees above normal. >> sunday mostly cloudy and record warmth and that's not a mistake and a high of 75 degrees on sunday and travel locally is still good and a massive temperature drop on monday and we're in the 40s for highs and rain looking likely on tuesday and right now for new year's eve and unfortunately, there is a chance of showers in the forecast and temperatures, guy, not too bad. >> thanks, amelia. coming up next in >>> redskins fans may

you look around and have daffodils growing up and trees building and grass is green and dandy lions in. >> people golfing. >> i'm getting a lot of people commenting about that how much they have been enjoying this because they've been working on their golf game. and then we have folks here on the beach in cape may and they're doing a little pushing and actually some of the folks playing in the sand having a good time. it's that kind of day. and temperatures already getting off to a very mild start and when all is said and done wheeling in the 70s more than likely throughout the are area. get out and enjoy. it no worries over precipitation today. tomorrow a few showers pushing through and we'll keep it dry this afternoon. temperature later on started out at 5 which is actually warmer than the normal high this time of year which is now down to 45 degrees. 5 allentown and nearly 60 in moun tons and millville 54 and dover 55 and sea ale city a5p. records in yep di today atlantic city the record high this afternoon at 69. that's what we're forecasting for you guys philadelphia we should sha