Good morning. Palm Sunday in Whitewater will be rainy with a high of fifty-three. Rainfall will amount to between three-quarters and one inch. Statue of Old Bet in front of the Elephant Hotel, a National Historic Landmark in Somers, NY, USA. Via Wikipedia. On this day in 1796, an elephant arrives to the United States:…

Good morning. Saturday will see showers and thunderstorms in Whitewater, with a high of sixty-nine. Rainfall will amount to between a tenth and a quarter of an inch. How are clocks, phones, and other devices synchronized? Dr. Demetrios Matsakis, Chief Scientist for the U.S. Naval Observatory’s Time Services, has the answer: On this day in…

Good morning. Friday will be sunny and warm, with a high of sixty-six. On this day in 1814, Napoleon abdicates and is exiled to Elba. On this day in 1965, tornadoes strike our part of America: 1965 – Palm Sunday Tornadoes Ravage Midwest On this date six tornadoes, part of the “Palm Sunday” outbreak, ripped…

Good morning. It’s a one-third chance of scattered showers, with a high of fifty-nine, for Whitewater on Thursday. Today is the anniversary of the ASPCA‘s founding: …the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA) is founded in New York City by philanthropist and diplomat Henry Bergh, 54. In 1863, Bergh had been…

Good morning. Wednesday looks to be a beautiful April day: sunny with a high of sixty-three. Private space exploration keeps advancing: A private spaceflight company will launch its third robotic resupply mission to the International Space Station next week. SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket carrying the company’s unmanned Dragon vehicle loaded down with supplies is expected…

Good morning. On Tuesday, Whitewater will have a one-in-five chance of afternoon showers, and a high of fifty-four. Sunrise today is 6:25 AM and sunset 7:29 PM. The moon’s in a waxing gibbous phase with 63% of its visible disk illuminated. Whitewater’s Parks & Rec Board meets this afternoon at 5:30 PM. On this day…

Good morning. Monday will have a high of fifty-six. Sunrise today is 6:28 AM and sunset 7:27 PM. The moon is in its first quarter. Every so often, I’ll have chance to play through a video game. (Right now, I’m going through BioShock on the Mac, ported to OS X by Feral Interactive. Yes, it’s…

Good morning. Sunday will be a sunny day with a high of fifty-seven degrees.   On this day in 1968, 2001: A Space Odyssey appears in theaters: Originally entitled A Journey Beyond the Stars, Kubrick’s film was released in April 1968 as 2001: A Space Odyssey. Jumping seamlessly from Africa in the Pleistocene Era to…

Good morning. We have a sunny day ahead in Whitewater today, with a high of fifty. On this day in 1792 — the first presidential veto of legislation: George Washington exercises the first presidential veto of a Congressional bill on this day in 1792. The bill introduced a new plan for dividing seats in the…

Good morning. Rain or perhaps even a bit of snow awaits us today, with a high of forty-two. Sunrise is 6:32 AM and sunset 7:35 PM. The moon is a waxing crescent with twenty-five percent of the its visible disk illuminated. Eye of the Storm is a video documentary of the resulting auroras from a…

Good morning. Thursday in the Whippet City brings a forty-precent chance of rain today (ninety percent tonight), with a daytime high of forty-two. Whitewater’s Landmarks Commission meets at 6 PM today, and Common Council at 6:30 PM. I haven’t had a pet mouse since I was a child, but I wish I’d known then how…

Good morning. We’ll have an increasingly cloudy day with a high of forty-seven. At 3 PM, there will be a municipal meeting to discuss a marketing program for the City of Whitewater. At 6:30 PM, there will be a Police & Fire commission meeting. On this day in 1865, Gen. Grant achieves a Union victory,…

Good morning. Tuesday in Whitewater will be windy, but increasingly sunny, with a high of forty-six. Whitewater’s Fire and Rescue Task Force meets this evening at 6:30 PM. Google’s announced, this April 1st morning, an upgrade to their mapping application to find the greatest Pokémon master through Google Maps for Android or iPhone. This may…

Good morning. Monday brings a chance (about twenty percent) of showers in the afternoon, and a high of sixty-four. Sunrise is 6:39 AM and sunset is 7:20 PM. The moon is a waxing crescent with just one-percent of its visible disk illuminated. On this day in 1998, a change of leagues – 1998 – Brewers…