Good Morning!
• We’re expecting mostly cloudy skies today, with a high temperature near 39 degrees but wind chill values between 25 and 35, with an east wind 3 to 6 miles per hour. It will be mostly cloudy overnight, with a low around 28. Thursday and Friday are both expected to be partly sunny, with highs near 44 degrees.
• An overflow crowd packed in to the upstairs conference room in the Southold Free Library Jan. 8 for the inaugural meeting of the North Fork chapter of ReWild Long Island, a Port Washington-based non-profit that provides grants for native and food gardens and support for summer high school internship programs, as well as holding native plant sales, seed swaps and informational lectures. Read More.
• Stony Brook Eastern Long Island Hospital hosts a New York Blood Center blood drive from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. today. Walk-ins are welcome, but appointments can also be made online here.
• Southampton Town is looking for qualified and dedicated people to fill numerous positions on the town’s appointed boards, hamlet Citizen Advisory Committees and special issues committees. They’re asking people who are interested to apply by FEb. 15, 2024. Here’s more info.
• Groundhog Day is almost here! STAR Foundation groundhog Sam Champion will make his 2024 prediction at the Quogue Library this Friday, Feb. from 3:30 to 5 p.m. There will be guest speakers and activities with the Quogue Wildlife Refuge, a showing of the movie “Groundhog Day” and hot chocolate and groundhog-themed treats. Here’s more info.
• Sag Harbor’s annual HarborFrost is also this Saturday, featuring live ice carving demonstrations, ice sculptures along Main Street, live music performances and indoor children’s activities, and Grucci fireworks and fire dancing. The action kicks off Friday night with the Taste of Sag Harbor kickoff party at the Sag Harbor Cinema. Here’s how to get tickets to the kickoff, and here’s more info on Saturday’s events.
The high tides on the East End for the next two days are as follows:
January 31
Plum Gut Harbor: 1:19 a.m., 1:32 p.m.
Montauk Harbor: 12:27 a.m., 12:40 p.m.
Greenport: 1:56 a.m., 2:09 p.m.
Mattituck Inlet: 2:34 a.m., 2:54 p.m.
Sag Harbor: 1:51 a.m., 2:04 p.m.
New Suffolk: 3:18 a.m., 3:31 p.m.
South Jamesport: 3:25 a.m., 3:38 p.m.
Shinn. Bay Entrance: 12:23 a.m., 12:20 p.m.
Shinn. Inlet: 10:29 a.m., 11:10 p.m.
February 1
Plum Gut Harbor: 2:04 a.m., 2:19 p.m.
Montauk Harbor: 1:12 a.m., 1:27 p.m.
Greenport: 2:41 a.m., 2:56 p.m.
Mattituck Inlet: 3:16 a.m., 3:41 p.m.
Sag Harbor: 2:36 a.m., 2:51 p.m.
New Suffolk: 4:03 a.m., 4:18 p.m.
South Jamesport: 4:10 a.m., 4:25 p.m.
Shinn. Bay Entrance: 1:01 a.m., 1:01 p.m.
Shinn. Inlet: 11:10 a.m., 11:50 p.m.
And that’s the way things look at dawn’s light here today.
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