Good Morning!
• We’re expecting patchy frost before 8 a.m. today, with sunny skies and a high temperature near 60 degrees, with a north wind 9 to 13 miles per hour. It will be mostly clear overnight, with a low around 43. Friday will be sunny, with a high near 65 and Saturday will be sunny, with a high near 67.
• Citizens Campaign for the Environment, Students for Climate Action, Renewable Energy Long Island, and Citizens Climate Lobby will hold a virtual series of Climate Chats tomorrow evening, October 17 from 7 to 9 p.m., in which six candidates running for Congress on Long Island will talk about their plans to fight Climate Change. Find Out More.
• Our Climate Local Now columnist, Mary Morgan, gives a shout out to the Environmental Voter this month: We want to “save what’s left” and, frankly, we have learned from science that we can go beyond “saving” to actually healing our planet heal — regenerate our woods, waters and soil – so Earth can rebalance herself. Read This Month’s Climate Local Now.
• The North Fork Environmental Council hosts the first of a series of screenings of “Regenerating Life: How to Cool the Planet, feed the world and live happily ever after” this evening at 7 p.m. at the Riverhead Senior Center at 80 Shade Tree Lane in Aquebogue. More details on the series are on the home page of the NFEC’s website.
• East Hampton Town is planning to buy a 30-acre parcel at historic 66 Wainscott Main Street for $56 million, using Community Preservation Fund, in what would be the largest CPF purchase in the town’s history. The Town Board will hold a public hearing on the proposed purchase at its Thursday, Oct. 17 meeting at 6 p.m. Here’s the agenda for the meeting, which can be viewed live on LTV’s YouTube channel. Read More.
• The Mattituck Fire Department at 1000 Pike Street 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.
• Here are the details about the topics to be discussed at the Riverhead Town Board’s 10 a.m. work session this morning, which is slated to be aired live here. The Southampton Town Board’s 10 a.m. work session agenda is slated to be posted here.
The high tides on the East End for the next two days are as follows:
October 17
Plum Gut Harbor: 9:55 a.m., 10:21 p.m.
Montauk Harbor: 9:03 a.m., 9:29 p.m.
Greenport: 10:32 a.m., 10:58 p.m.
Mattituck Inlet: 11:33 a.m.
Sag Harbor: 10:27 a.m., 10:53 p.m.
New Suffolk: 11:54 a.m.
South Jamesport: 12:01 p.m.
Shinn. Bay Entrance: 9:15 a.m., 9:38 p.m.
Shinn. Inlet: 7:24 a.m., 7:47 p.m.
October 18
Plum Gut Harbor: 10:44 a.m., 11:11 p.m.
Montauk Harbor: 9:52 a.m., 10:19 p.m.
Greenport: 11:21 a.m., 11:48 p.m.
Mattituck Inlet: 12:03 a.m., 12:21 p.m.
Sag Harbor: 11:16 a.m., 11:43 p.m.
New Suffolk: 12:20 a.m., 12:43 p.m.
South Jamesport: 12:27 a.m., 12:50 p.m.
Shinn. Bay Entrance: 10:02 a.m., 10:28 p.m.
Shinn. Inlet: 8:11 a.m., 8:37 p.m.
And that’s the way things look at dawn’s light here today.
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