Good morning. Sunday presents a one-third chance of thunderstorms during the day, but a ninety percent chance for tonight. The high temperature for today will be seventy-four. Some creatures just won’t share the road, as an enduro rider recently learned: On this day in 1929, Babe Ruth becomes the first major-league player to hit 500…

Good morning. Saturday will be mostly sunny with a high of seventy-six. Sunrise was 5:56 PM and sunset will be 8:04 PM. The moon is a waxing crescent with 14% of its visible disk illuminated. A bit of dog and human teamwork: On 8.10.1945, Japan accepts the Potsdam terms: On this day in 1945, just…

Good morning. Friday in town will be partly sunny, with a high of seventy-eighty. We’ll have west winds at 5 to 10 MPH, and just a slight chance of isolated morning showers. On this day in 378, a bad day for the Roman Empire: In one of the most decisive battles in history, a large…

Good morning. Thursday in Whitewater will be a mostly sunny day with a high of seventy-seven. Sunrise was at 5:54 AM and sunset will be at 8:06 PM. The moon is a waxing crescent with 3% of its visible disk illuminated. On this day in 1974, Pres. Nixon announces his resignation, to take effect the…

Good morning. We’ll have a partly sunny Wednesday in Whitewater, with a high of eighty, and southwest winds at 5 to 15 MPH. I had no idea that Pres. Garfield had an interest in mathematics, but yesterday I learned that he did. While a member of Congress, he produced a simple proof of the Pythagorean…

Good morning. We’ll have a partly sunny day with a high of eighty-three. Common Council meets today at 6:30 PM. On this day in 1945, fewer than fours years after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, America bombs Hiroshima: …at 8:16 a.m. Japanese time, an American B-29 bomber, the Enola Gay, drops the world’s first…

Good morning. Whitewater will have a Monday of showers with a high of seventy-one. The School Board meets tonight, first in closed session at 6 PM and later to open session. On this day in 1914, a new method of traffic regulation: The world’s first electric traffic signal is put into place on the corner…

Good morning. We’ll have a mostly sunny day in Whitewater, with a high of seventy-five. NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory offers a video if the Mars Curiosity lander’s first year on that planet, distilled into two minutes’ time: On this day in 1753, George Washington advances in Freemasonry: …21-year-old Virginian George Washington is declared a Master…

Good morning. Whitewater will have a sunny Saturday, with a high of seventy-six and northwest winds at 5 to 10 MPH. On this day in 1958, a remarkable vessel takes a remarkable trip: On August 3, 1958, the U.S. nuclear submarine Nautilus accomplishes the first undersea voyage to the geographic North Pole. The world’s first…

Good morning. Whitewater will have a partly cloudy day with a slight chance of thunderstorms and a high of eighty. On this day in 1990, Iraq invades Kuwait: At about 2 a.m. local time, Iraqi forces invade Kuwait, Iraq’s tiny, oil-rich neighbor. Kuwait’s defense forces were rapidly overwhelmed, and those that were not destroyed retreated…

Good morning. We’ll have a sunny Thursday in Whitewater, with a high of eighty. Whitewater’s Landmarks Commission meets this evening at 6 PM. Maria Mitchell, painting by H. Dasell, 1851 It’s the anniversary today, from 1818, of the birthday of America’s first professional woman in astronomy, Maria Mitchell: Maria Mitchell (August 1, 1818 – June…

Good morning. We’ll have a one-third chance of afternoon thunderstorms this Wednesday, and a high of seventy-seven. July 31, 1777, a young French aristocrat begins serving America without compensation: On this day in 1777, a 19-year-old French aristocrat, Marie-Joseph Paul Roch Yves Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette, accepts a commission as a major-general in…

Good morning. We’ll have a high of seventy-four with a thirty percent chance of showers today. On this day in 1863, Henry Ford is born. Upon his death eighty-three years later, the New York Times wrote of him that Henry Ford was the founder of modern American industrial mass production methods, built on the assembly…

Good morning. Monday in Whitewater will be mostly sunny with a high of seventy-five. Whitewater’s Park & Rec Board meets at 4:30 PM this afternoon. They’ve seen better days, and I think that the future of space travel will be mostly private flight, but it’s still a memorable date: On this day in 1958, the…