Date:Monday, October 30, 1995. Sam Kessler a little less than six months to live.

Forecast: High 50. Low 32. Occasional drizzle. The moon is half full and waxing.

Tuesday's Forecast: High 40. Low 32. Cloudy and cold, with brief light rain.

Wednesday's Forecast: High 48. Low 39. Warmer, but still cloudy with scattered light rain.

Thursday's Forecast: High 58. Low 44. Slightly heavier rain.

Extended Forecast: Continued rainy through the weekend. Highs reach the low 60s on Friday, but then it gets cold through the weekend with highs only in the low 40s, lows at or below freezing, and snow in the mountains. Finally clearing on Monday.

News: Quebec votes on separation from Canada; Japan strips Aum Shinrikyo of its religious status; Palestinians mourn assassination of Islamic Jihad leader; King and Queen of Norway visit America.

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.