Good morning. We’ll have a windy Thursday in Whitewater, with a high of twenty-nine, and about an inch of snow in the afternoon. Meanwhile, the view from Norway: Northern lights from Tromsø, Norway, on Jan. 9, 2014. Photographer Harald Albrigtsen. On this day in 1948, an assassin murders Mohandas Gandhi. Here’s Puzzability‘s Thursday game: This Week’s…

Good morning. We’ll have a sunny day with a high of nineteen today. For those looking for a new hobby, one reads that America is experiencing a falconry revival: In 1968, when Lars Sego was eight years old, he decided he wanted to become a falconer. He put a hood and jess on a chicken…

Good morning. It will be another cold day today, with a high of zero and wind chill values of thirty to forty below. Sunrise for Tuesday is 7:14 AM, and sunset is 5:03 PM. The moon is a waning crescent with 7% of its visible disk illuminated. On this day in 1986, the space shuttle…

Good morning. We’ll have a cold day in Whitewater, with a high of six below zero, and wind chill values of twenty-five to thirty below. The Whitewater Schools are closed today and tomorrow. On this day in 1888, the National Geographic Society is born: …The 33 men who originally met and formed the National Geographic…

Good morning. We’ve a lovely blanket of snow in the city today, and we’ll have a high of twenty-three, with wind chill values around zero. The latest FW poll, The Rabbit in the Statue’s Ear, is now closed. 63.16% of respondents felt that South Africa should remove a tiny rabbit surreptitiously placed in the ear…

Good morning. Saturday brings blowing snow, a high of fifteen falling to two degrees by the afternoon, and about two inches of snow overnight. On this day in 1981, the late Chairman Mao’s widow has a fall: Jiang Qing, the widow of Chinese leader Mao Zedong, is sentenced to death for her “counter-revolutionary crimes” during…

Good morning. We’ll have blowing snow throughout the day, with a high of twenty-three, and about one to two inches of snow overnight. It’s the anniversary of the first sales (from 1935) of beer in a can: Canned beer makes its debut on this day in 1935. In partnership with the American Can Company, the…

Good morning. Thursday comes to Whitewater with a chance of flurries and a high of two degrees. On this day in 1775, British merchants speak against their government’s restrictions on trade with America: …London merchants petition Parliament for relief from the financial hardship put upon them by the curtailment of trade with the North American…

Good morning. Wednesday brings a high of eleven, and a likelihood of morning snow with accumulation of less than one inch. Sunrise is 7:19 AM and sunset 4:55 AM. The moon’s a waning gibbous with 65% of its visible disk illuminated. At 8 AM, Downtown Whitewater’s board members meet, and at 5 PM there’s a…

Good morning. It will be sunny and cold today, with a high of four degrees, and wind chill values between ten and twenty below. Whitewater’s Alcohol and Licensing Committee meets at 6 PM, and Common Council at 6:30 PM this evening. We’re not the only ones with interesting weather. A Russian videographer recorded a sundog…

Good morning. We’ll have an even chance of a wintry mix of freezing rain and snow in Whitewater today (with slight accumulation), and a high of twenty-two (before dropping into the teens). Friday’s FW poll was about the likelihood of victory for each of the NFL’s four remaining teams, and respondents favored Seattle (31.43%) and…

Good morning. We’ll have a mostly sunny Sunday with a high of thirty. Luca Iaconi-Stewart has finished a 1:60-scale model of an Air India Boeing 777 from manila folders. The level of detail on his years-long project is truly extraordinary. It’s likely that one has never seen anyone command a greater attention to a paper…

Good morning. We’ve a likelihood of snow today, of about an inch, with a high of nineteen. Sunrise this Saturday is 7:21 AM, sunset is 4:50 PM, and the moon is in a waning gibbous phase with 94% of its visible disk illuminated. Every so often, while film makers are recording penguins, a bird of…

Good morning. Friday brings a likelihood of snow to Whitewater, with less than an inch of accumulation, and a high of seventeen. On this day in 1893, Hawaii loses its native government: On the Hawaiian Islands, a group of American sugar planters under Sanford Ballard Dole overthrow Queen Liliuokalani, the Hawaiian monarch, and establish a…