Good Morning!
• We’re expecting sunny skies today, with a high temperature near 72 degrees and a west wind 8 to 11 miles per hour. It will be mostly clear overnight, with a low around 54. Friday will be mostly sunny, with a high near 72, and Saturday will be partly sunny, with a high near 68 and a 30 percent chance of showers between 8 a.m. and 2 p.m., with patchy fog before 8 a.m.
• In the early stages of the great changes brought about by climate disruption, we are seeing the retreat of insurance companies away from flood zones in the coastal regions, and away from fire zones in the mountain regions. Read more in this month’s Climate Local Now.
• The Southampton Town Board will meet in its capacity as the commissioners of the Hampton Bays Water District this morning at 10:30 a.m., followed by a work session at which they will discuss board member projects at 11:30 a.m. Here’s the agenda for both meetings, which can be viewed live on Sea-TV’s YouTube channel.
• Hallockville Museum Farm hosts an International Migratory Bird Day Walk on Saturday, May 13 from 9 to 11 a.m. Naturalist MaryLaura Lamont leads visitors on a tour through peak migration season, where warblers, vireos, thrush, hawks, and waterfowl will all be found in a variety of habitats of fields, woods, and pond areas along the Long Island Sound. Tickets are $15 or $10 for Hallockville members, and can be obtained at hallockville.org.
• The Long Pond Greenbelt Nature Center in Bridgehampton hosts Sundays at Two: The Long Island Mammal Survey with Mike Bottini this Sunday, May 14 at 2 p.m. Launched in November 2022, the goals of this new conservation campaign led by Seatuck Environmental Association are to update the last mammal survey done here in the 1960s, educate Long Islanders about our native mammals, and lobby for changes in the DEC’s hunting and trapping regulations. For more info on this free event, visit longpondgreenbelt.org.
• The New Suffolk Civic Association is accepting reservations for space at its Saturday, May 27 Community Yard Sale on the Ball Field at 850 Fourth Street in New Suffolk. Spaces are $20 per vendor, and can be obtained by emailing newsuffolkcivicassociation@gmail.com. The yard sale runs from 8 a.m. to noon, with a rain date of Sunday, May 28.
The high tides on the East End for the next two days are as follows:
May 11
Plum Gut Harbor: 2:45 a.m., 3:29 p.m.
Montauk Harbor: 1:53 a.m., 2:37 p.m.
Greenport: 3:22 a.m., 4:06 p.m.
Mattituck Inlet: 4:15 a.m., 5:01 p.m.
Sag Harbor: 3:17 a.m., 4:01 p.m.
New Suffolk: 4:44 a.m., 5:28 p.m.
South Jamesport: 4:51 a.m., 5:35 p.m.
Shinn. Bay Entrance: 1:57 a.m., 2:41 p.m.
Shinn. Inlet: 12:06 a.m., 12:50 p.m.
May 12
Plum Gut Harbor: 3:52 a.m., 4:37 p.m.
Montauk Harbor: 3 a.m., 3:45 p.m.
Greenport: 4:29 a.m., 5:14 p.m.
Mattituck Inlet: 5:20 a.m., 6:04 p.m.
Sag Harbor: 4:24 a.m., 5:09 p.m.
New Suffolk: 5:51 a.m., 6:36 p.m.
South Jamesport: 5:58 a.m., 6:43 p.m.
Shinn. Bay Entrance: 2:59 a.m., 3:42 p.m.
Shinn. Inlet: 1:08 a.m., 1:51 p.m.
And that’s the way things look at dawn’s light here today.
