Date: Wednesday, February 14, 1996. Sam Kessler less than three months to live.

Forecast: High 23. Low 5. Light snow all day, with a total accumulation of 2". The moon is just past half full and waning.

Tomorrow's Forecast: High 28. Low 15. More snow, although only 0.3" today.

Friday's Forecast: High 20. Low 6. Another 3" of snow in town, with 12" or more in the mountains.

Saturday's Forecast: High 25. Low 15. 0.1" of snow.

Extended Forecast: Finally clearing up Sunday and into next week. Highs in the mid- to upper-20s Sonday and Monday with lows right around 0, then warming quite a bit in mid-week.

News: British Prime Minister proposes elections in Northern Ireland in wake of IRA bombing in London last week; deadly flooding in South America; Phil Gramm withdraws from presidential race after finishing 5th in Iowa caucus; Egypt opens Dashur pyramids to tourists for the first time.

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 1996 provided by AlaskaJim.com. Always Be My Baby by Mariah Carey was #1 for the year in airplay, although the #1 selling single was Macarena by Los Del Rio.
• Movie box office grosses from Worldwide Box Office. Independence Day was #1 for the year, followed by Twister, Mission: Impossible, Jerry Maguire and Ransom. Of course, the series will be over by the time any of those movies actually come out...
• Science fiction and fantasy published in 1996, 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. John Grisham's The Runaway Jury was #1 on the fiction list. Make the Connection by Oprah Winfrey and Bob Greene 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.