Okay, so last weekend was a miserable, soggy bust, with torrential rains and flooded streets and no reason to step out the door except to shake your fist at the sodden skies.

This weekend will be the make-up weekend, the sunny antidote to last week's bad medicine and the time to do what ought to have been done then, but wasn't.

Forecasters say this cool, dry air sweeping down from the west-northwest and high pressure will keep us in the clear for as far as the weather-eye can see. A week.

Look for mostly sunny to plain-old sunny skies through next Thursday, with daytime highs in the low 70s and upper 60s. Definitely October now. The overnight lows will dip into the upper 40s most nights as the clear skies allow the heat to radiate back into space.

OC-bound? Same deal, only the nights won't get quite so cool, thanks to the heat still lingering in the ocean water.

Some spots west of the Blue Ridge may slip into the upper 30s, and there are frost advisories up for tonight in the Appalachian counties of Virginia and West Virginia.

With clear skies in store this weekend, look for bright Venus (right) that bright "star" low in the west after sunset. Back after a long absence from the evening skies, she will watch over our evening commutes for months to come.