Good Morning!
• We’re expecting sunny skies today, with a high temperature near 42 degrees and wind chill values between 20 and 30, with a northwest wind 10 to 15 miles per hour. It will be mostly clear overnight, with a low around 21. We’re expecting rain late Tuesday, with a high near 50 and a light east wind. Rain will be heavy overnight on Tuesday, with 1 to 2 inches possible overnight and into Wednesday, when skies will clear and the temperature will fall to around 44 by 5 p.m.
• Southold Town is embarking this coming year on a Coastal Resiliency Preparedness Action Plan, after former Town Supervisor Scott Russell included $100,000 to start work on the plan in his 2024 budget adopted this fall. Read More.
• Immaculate Conception Church at 580 Main Street in Westhampton Beach hosts a New York Blood Center blood drive this afternoon and evening from 1 to 7 p.m. Walk-ins are welcome, but appointments can also be made online here.
• A new North Fork chapter of ReWild Long Island, with the vision of rewilding, revitalizing, and restoring our precious environment, one garden at a time, is forming on the North Fork. The group’s inaugural meeting will be held on Jan. 8 from 5 to 6 p.m. in the Folk Room upstairs at the Southold Free Library. All are welcome to attend. Read More.
• The Hamptons Observatory holds a virtual lecture on “Time Machines and Spaceships: The Search for Life,” by Dr. Heather Graham of the Agnostic Biosignature Collective at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center tomorrow evening at 7 p.m. Register online for this free event at hamptonsobservatory.org.
• The New Suffolk School Board is slated to give the public an update on their plans for a vote to create a non-instructional school district tomorrow evening at 7 p.m. All are welcome.
• The Beacon’s Week in Review was delivered piping hot to inboxes throughout the East End in the wee hours of Sunday morning. To get your own copy each week, sign up here.
The high tides on the East End for the next two days are as follows:
January 8
Plum Gut Harbor: 7:02 a.m., 7:30 p.m.
Montauk Harbor: 6:10 a.m., 6:38 p.m.
Greenport: 7:39 a.m., 8:07 p.m.
Mattituck Inlet: 8:21 a.m., 9 p.m.
Sag Harbor: 7:34 a.m., 8:02 p.m.
New Suffolk: 9:01 a.m., 9:29 p.m.
South Jamesport: 9:08 a.m., 9:36 p.m.
Shinn. Bay Entrance: 5:59 a.m., 6:26 p.m.
Shinn. Inlet: 4:08 a.m., 4:35 p.m.
January 9
Plum Gut Harbor: 7:45 a.m., 8:13 p.m.
Montauk Harbor: 6:53 a.m., 7:21 p.m.
Greenport: 8:22 a.m., 8:50 p.m.
Mattituck Inlet: 9:11 a.m., 9:49 p.m.
Sag Harbor: 8:17 a.m., 8:45 p.m.
New Suffolk: 9:44 a.m., 10:12 p.m.
South Jamesport: 9;51 a.m., 10:19 p.m.
Shinn. Bay Entrance: 6:51 a.m., 7:19 p.m.
Shinn. Inlet: 5 a.m., 5:28 p.m.
And that’s the way things look at dawn’s light here today.
