Date: Sunday, December 31, 1995. Sam Kessler around four months to live.

Forecast: High 36. Low 28. The moon is just over half full and waxing.

New Year's Forecast: High 30. Low 17. Light snow; temperature falls throughout the day.

Tuesday's Forecast: High 17. Low 8. Temperature continues falling throughout the day. Snow begins in the late evening, with 1.3" falling before midnight.

Wednesday's Forecast: High 9. Low 3. Snows all day; 10" fall in twon, up to 15" in the hills.

Extended Forecast: Snow finally ends before dawn on Thursday, after another 1.6" have fallen, bringing the total for the storm to just under 12" in town. Highs for the rest of the week remain in the single digits, with lows around ten below. Saturday's low of -19 will be a record for that day.

News: U.S. Army completes first pontoon bridge linking Bosnia and Croatia; Sarajevo celebrates first New Year since 1991 without fighting; U.S. budget battles continue; Pope John Paul II warns against "excessive year-end celebrations typical of pagans."

Historical weather data brought to you by WRGB TV, Albany. Headlines are from the Vanderbilt University Television News Archive.

Need more to get you into that '90s mindset? Check out these sites:

• The BBC's 1995 retrospective.
• Music charts from 1995 provided by AlaskaJim.com. Gangsta's Paradise by Coolio was #1 for the year.
• Movie box office grosses from Worldwide Box Office. Toy Story was #1 for the year, followed by Batman Forever, Apollo 13, Pocahontas and Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls. It's also the year of GoldenEye, Se7en, Die Hard: With a Vengeance, Crimson Tide, Twelve Monkeys, and Waterworld.
• Science fiction and fantasy published in 1995, to satisfy your inner geek.
• Non-sci fi best sellers of the 1990s (scroll down to the appropriate year), for those of you without an inner geek. Jean Auel's The Plains of Passage was #1 on the fiction list. A Life on the Road by Charles Kuralt was the #1 non-fiction book.
• Computers in 1990 to remind you how little you can actually do with those points you spent on Computer skill. Sadly, the history of the personal computer ends in 1990.