Weather Service: Hunter’s Moon brings cooler temperatures for Shelter Island

The Hunter’s Moon has been illuminating our evenings and nights for the past few days, and was full last night.

The Old Farmer’s Almanac says it’s known as the Hunter’s Moon “because it signaled the time to go hunting in preparation for the cold winter ahead. Animals are beginning to fatten up ahead of winter, and since the farmers had recently cleaned out their fields under the Harvest Moon, hunters could easily see the deer and other animals that had come out to root through the remaining scraps, as well as the foxes and wolves that had come out to prey on them.”

Even if you’re not a hunter (or an Old Farmer) you have a front row seat to one of the most magnificent celestial productions of the autumn.

Our string of warm, beautiful autumn weather is in for a change, according to the National Weather Service (NWS.)

Showers are moving in today and will become widespread with patchy fog after 2 p.m., according to the NWS. The temperature is expected to fall to around 52 degrees by 5 p.m. and the wind will be out of the northeast at 11 mph.

Tomorrow, Monday, the start of the work week, will be more of the same, with rain falling through patchy fog, mainly before noon. It will be warmer, according to the NWS, with a high near 62.