Thousands of people will be hitting the streets of downtown Roanoke to celebrate the start of 2024.

Happy New Year, Insiders! We hope your 2023 is filled with joy, happiness... and FITNESS!!!

A cold front that began moving through in 2020 will bring us widespread rain and cooler temperatures. Many of us reached our high temperatures shortly after 2021 began... okay, I’ll stop with the new year’s jokes. During the day, our temperatures will stay in the 30s as scattered rain moves in. Rain AccumulationThis weekend will bring us more pleasant weather with highs returning to the 50s and 60s. A lot of sunshine is on the way with highs in the 50s.

Fireworks and drones illuminate the night sky over London as they form a light display as London's normal New Year's Eve fireworks display was cancelled due to the coronavirus pandemic Thursday Dec. 31, 2020. As midnight rolled from Asia to the Middle East, Europe, Africa and the Americas, the New Year’s experience mirrored national responses to the virus itself. Some countries and cities canceled or scaled back their festivities, while others without active outbreaks carried on like any other year. In Chinese societies, the virus ensured more muted celebrations of the solar New Year, which is less widely observed than the Lunar New Year that in 2021 will fall in February. Initial reports about a mystery respiratory illness sickening people in the Chinese city of Wuhan emerged exactly a year ago.