Good morning. Monday begins with freezing fog in the morning, later to become cloudy with a high of thirty-nine. On this day in 1804, Napoleon crowns himself emperor of France. Waterloo comes later. On 12.2.1954, the United States Senate censures a Wisconsinite: 1954 – McCarthy Censured by Senate On December 2, 1954, the United States…

Good morning. The month ends with mostly sunny skies and a high of thirty-nine. Sunrise is 7:05 AM and sunset 4:22 PM. The moon is a waning crescent with only 7% of its visible disk illuminated. On this day in 1874, Winston Churchill is born. He passed away ninety years later. November 30, 3340 BC…

Good morning. We’ll have a mostly sunny Friday with a high of thirty. As it has for so many years, Whitewater’s Christmas Parade will travel along Main Street toward the downtown of the city beginning at 6 PM. NASA recently released a video of Comet ISON traveling toward the sun, using images recorded from 11.20…

Good morning and Happy Thanksgiving. We will have a mostly cloudy day with a high of twenty-eight. Sunrise is 7:03 AM and sunset 4:23 PM. The moon is a waning crescent with twenty-two percent of its visible disk illuminated. On 11.28.1520, Magellan reaches the Pacific: After sailing through the dangerous straits below South America that…

Good morning. Wednesday will be mostly sunny with a high of twenty-four, but wind chill values between zero and five degrees. Downtown Whitewater’s board meets today at 8 AM. On this day in 1965, a request for an increase: The Pentagon informs President Johnson that if General Westmoreland is to conduct the major sweep operations…

Good morning. For Tuesday, Whitewater will have scattered snow showers in the afternoon, with a high of thirty-one falling to twenty-four by late afternoon. About yesterday’s snow, I’d say we were under one inch (the National Weather Service station for Milwaukee/Sullivan official record is .7 inches for their location. Admittedly, we might have had more…

Good morning. We will have a wintry mix of precipitation for Monday, with snow combining with freezing rain, to end by the afternoon. Snow accumulation may be under an inch. Of snow, most respondents to the FW Friday Poll: Whitewater’s first accumulated snowfall in the 2013-14 season? picked December 16-31 (at 54.76%), with December 1-15…

Good morning. Sunday will be mostly sunny with a high of twenty-four. One often hears about a bird’s eye view. What would that be like? Something like this, perhaps — On 11.24.1824, a beer magnate is born: 1824 – Frederick Miller Born On this date brewing barron Frederick Miller was born in Riedlingen, Wurttemberg, Germany.…

Good morning. We will have a blustery and chilly day, with a high of twenty-two, and wind gusts as high as thirty mph. I’ve added two additional points to my reply to an editorial about Janesville’s transit bus. See, The Gazette‘s Laughable, Damage-Control Editorial. The program and the editorial defense of it are, both of…

Good morning. We’ll have a good chance of morning snow today (no accumulation expected), with a high of thirty-five. It’s the fiftieth anniversary of Pres. Kenendy’s assassination. Here’s how the New York Times reported the tragic events of that day: Dallas, Nov. 22–President John Fitzgerald Kennedy was shot and killed by an assassin today. He…

Good morning. We’ll have a one-third chance of rain today with a high of forty-five. On this day in 1783, a balloon flight over Paris:   ‘The first manned hot-air balloon, designed by the Montgolfier brothers, takes off from the Bois de Boulogne, Paris, on November 21, 1783’ via Wikipedia French physician Jean-François Pilatre de…

Good morning. A quick note about a post later today — Last night, Whitewater’s Common Council voted 4-2 for reduced funding for the now-renamed ‘Janesville-Milton-Whitewater’ bus for 2014. I’ve argued against any funding, but reduced funding is still a gain for better policy. In a city that’s now overcoming some truly debilitating past mistakes, movement…

Good morning. Tuesday will be sunny with a high of forty-two.  We’ll have light winds from the south at 5 to 10 mph.  Sunrise is 6:52 AM and sunset will be 4:28 PM. Common Council meets tonight at 6:30 PM. On this day in 1863, Pres. Lincoln delivers the Gettysburg Address: On November 19, 1863,…

Good morning. Monday in Whitewater will be colder than yesterday, with a high of forty. We’ll have another breezy day, with gusts of winds for today reaching to 25 mph. Sunrise today is 6:51 AM, and sunset 4:29 PM. The moon for November 18th is in a waning gibbous phase with 99% of its visible…