Good morning. We’ll have gradually clearing skies this Monday, with a high of seventeen (wind chill values being between five and five below). There are three municipal meetings scheduled for today. At 5:00 PM, there’s a special meeting of the Community Development Authority. At 6 PM, the Planning Commission meets, and at the same time…

Good morning. Sunday in Whitewater will bring a near-certainty of afternoon snow, with accumulations of about an inch. The high for today will be twenty-five. A second snowfall is likely overnight, again with an accumulation of about an inch. On this day in 1941, America followed the attack on Pearl Harbor with a declaration of…

Good morning. Saturday will be sunny with a high of sixteen, with wind chill values of zero to ten below. On this day in 1941, at 7:48 AM local time, Japanese warplanes attacked Pearl Harbor. Wisconsinite Russ Warrnier survived the attack: 1941 – Wisconsin Man Survives Pearl Harbor Attack On this date Russ Warriner, a…

Good morning. Friday in Whitewater will be partly sunny with a high of seventeen. On this day in 1884, workers finish the Washington Monument: …in Washington, D.C., workers place a nine-inch aluminum pyramid atop a tower of white marble, completing the construction of an impressive monument to the city’s namesake and the nation’s first president,…

Good morning. We’ll have a chance of flurries in the morning, then mostly sunny skies and temperatures falling into the twenties. Whitewater’s Landmarks Commission meets at 6 PM, as will the Fire & Rescue Task Force (6 PM). On this day in 1901, Walt Disney is born. In the Wisconsin of December 5, 1879, a…

Good morning. Wednesday brings an even chance of rain and a high of forty-nine to Whitewater. On this day in 1780, George Washington’s cousin successfully tricks the enemy: A force of Continental dragoons commanded by Colonel William Washington–General George Washington’s second cousin once removed–corners Loyalist Colonel Rowland Rugeley and his followers in Rugeley’s house and…

Good morning. Whitewater will have a forty percent chance of drizzle and rain today, with a high of forty-four. Common Council meets tonight at 6:30 PM. Koalas are small and benign-looking animals that are sometimes ornery and that are capable of making sounds far deeper than tiny animals should be able to make. Mary Bates…

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…