Good morning, Whitewater. Sunday will bring a likelihood of afternoon thunderstorms and a high of eighty-one to Whitewater. On this day in 1215, King John of England accepts and places his seal on the Magna Carta: Magna Carta was the first document imposed upon a King of England by a group of his subjects, the…

Good morning, Whitewater. Saturday will be mostly sunny with a high of seventy-seven. Map, United States Military Academy via Wikipedia. On this day in 1982, Argentine forces surrender to Britain in the Falklands War. The New York Times reported the surrender the next day: General Moore radioed from his command post on Mount Kent: ”Falkland…

Good morning, Whitewater. Our week ends with sunny skies, a high of seventy-one, and northwest winds at ten to fifteen miles per hour. On this day in 1966, the U.S. Supreme Court hands down a decision in Miranda v. Arizona: Miranda v. Arizona, 384 U.S. 436 (1966), was a landmark decision of the United States…

Good morning, Whitewater. Thursday will be mostly sunny, with a high of seventy-five, and just a one-fifth chance of rain. On this day in 1987, Pres. Reagan asked Soviet leader Gorbachev to tear down the Berlin Wall. On this day in 1899, Wisconsin saw her worst tornado strike: 1899 – New Richmond Tornado On this…

Good morning, Whitewater. We’ll have a rainy Wednesday, with a high of sixty-six. On this day in 1944, the Allies at Normandy link forces: “Five days after the D-Day landing, the five Allied landing groups, made up of some 330,000 troops, link up in Normandy to form a single solid front across northwestern France.” It’s…

Good morning, Whitewater. We’ll have a mild Tuesday, with a high of seventy-three, and a one-fifth chance of late afternoon showers. Whitewater’s Parks & Rec Board meets today at 5:30 PM. (Update: later canceled.) On this day in 1752, Benjamin Franklin conducts a now-famous experiment: ….Benjamin Franklin flies a kite during a thunderstorm and collects…

Good morning, Whitewater. Monday in town will be mostly sunny with a high of seventy-four. Sunrise today is 5:16 AM and sunset is 8:32 PM. The moon is in a waxing gibbous phase with 85% of its visible disk illuminated. Whitewater’s Planning Commission meets this evening at 6 PM. The U.S. winner of the 7th…

Good morning. Sunday in Whitewater will begin with clouds and grow increasingly sunny as the day progresses. We’ll have a high of seventy-one. Friday’s FW poll asked whether a pilot or a sunbather was more to blame for a near-accident between an airplane and the vacationer. The plurality of respondents (45.83%) thought the sunbather was…

Good morning, Whitewater. We’ll have a one-third chance of late afternoon showers, with a high of eighty-three today. On this day in 1776, Richard Henry Lee, a delegate to the Second Continental Congress from Virginia, introduces a resolution: That these United Colonies are, and of right out to be, free and independent States, that they…

Good morning, Whitewater. In the city today, we’ll have a sunny day with a high of eighty degrees. It’s the seventieth anniversary of the D-Day landings at Normandy on 6.6.1944. A LCVP (Landing Craft, Vehicle, Personnel) from the U.S. Coast Guard-manned USS Samuel Chase disembarks troops of Company E, 16th Infantry, 1st Infantry Division (the…

Good morning, Whitewater. We’ll have a sunny Thursday with a high of seventy-four and calm winds from the southeast at about five mph. Whitewater’s Landmarks Commission meets this evening at 6 PM. On this day in 1933, FDR takes America off the gold standard: …the United States went off the gold standard, a monetary system…

Good morning, Whitewater. Wednesday brings a likelihood of morning showers and a high of sixty-six. Sunrise is 5:18 AM and sunset 8:19 PM. The moon is a waxing crescent with thirty-nine percent of its visible disk illuminated. The European Space Agency posted a video recently of the NASA Hubble telescope’s photographs of the distant universe:…

Good morning, Whitewater. We have a probability of thunderstorms this Monday, with a daytime high of eighty degrees. Sunrise today is 5:19 AM and sunset 8:28 PM. The moon is a waxing crescent with twenty-two percent of its visible disk illuminated. The Kansas City Star reports this as the greatest paper airplane shot in sports…