Hamden's Hour-By-Hour New Year's Eve Forecast

By Brian McCready

We’ve made it through another year and for many of us, we’ll be traveling on New Year’s Eve to celebrate with family and friends to ring in 2016.

Last year, snow was on the ground and it was freezing cold — well, what a difference a year makes.

We’re looking at a relatively good forecast for New Year’s Eve. No, it won’t be in the 60s like it was on Christmas Day, but the entire state will see temps in the mid to upper 40s during the day today, and the lows will only drop into the upper 20s and low 30s.

Today will feature plenty of sunshine during the day, and at night it will be partly cloudy, with no chance of precipitation.

We’ll break that down more in a minute with an hour-by-hour forecast.

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But beginning on New Year’s Day, the mild temps we’ve been accustomed to in December begin to go away and we’re left with seasonal temps but nothing but sunshine. No snow or storms are on the horizon through Wednesday.

On New Year’s Day temps will be in the low 40s with sunshine, Saturday and Sunday also include more sun and temps near 40 degrees.

But on Monday, the cold begins to set in with temps around 30 degrees for a high or the coldest day of the season thus far. At night parts of the state could go as low as 15 degrees.

Hour-by-Hour Temps on New Year’s Eve:

Immediate coastline including southern Fairfield, New Haven, Middlesex and New London counties:

• 12 p.m. = 45 degrees
• 3 p.m. = 45 degrees
• 6 p.m. = 40 degrees
• 8 p.m. = 39 degrees
• 10 p.m. = 37 degrees
• Midnight = 35 degrees

Northern Fairfield, New Haven, Middlesex and New London counties:

• 12 p.m. = 43 degrees
• 3 p.m. = 43 degrees
• 6 p.m. = 39 degrees
• 8 p.m. = 37 degrees
• 10 p.m. = 36 degrees
• Midnight = 34 degrees