Alerts: Winter Weather Advisory for Northern Fairfield, Northern New Haven and Litchfield counties from 11 p.m. tonight through Saturday morning.

A very active period will be with us through New Year's Day. There will be several opportunities for precipitation but for today it will be sunny and chilly with high pressure to the north.

Rain will work into the region after midnight tonight. It will be cold enough inland for pockets of freezing rain. A light glaze to a tenth of an inch of ice may form on untreated surfaces. Please use caution. The freezing rain inland will go over to plain rain later in the morning on Saturday as temperatures climb above freezing. Rain will continue through mid-afternoon and then end.

Sunday will be balmy. The next round of rain should arrive later in the day. Highs will soar into the 50s. Early morning showers will give way to partly sunny skies Monday afternoon. It'll be mild with highs in the 50s.

New Year's Eve day will be dry under partly sunny skies. Rain is forecast to move in toward midnight as we ring in 2025.

New Year's Day may start off damp, but the sun will quickly return. Readings will still be above average.

Friday: Sunny. Seasonable. Highs in the upper 30s.

Tonight: Rain with pockets of freezing rain north and west. Lows in the 20s to near freezing.

Saturday: Any freezing rain well inland will go over to plain rain. Rain will taper off during the mid-afternoon Saturday in all areas. High: 44

Sunday: Mostly cloudy. Balmy. Highs in the 50s.

Monday: Any morning showers will give way to sunny skies. Mild. Highs in the mid-50s.

New Year's Eve: Partly sunny. High: 49

New Year's Day: Moring showers, otherwise, partly sunny. High 48.