Good morning. We’ll have rain today in the Whippet City, with a high of fifty-nine. We can expect between a quarter and a half inch of rain. Server upgrade: Over the night, my sites saw their second server upgrade in a year, to keep up with traffic. FREE WHITEWATER, Daily Wisconsin, and Daily Adams now…

Good morning. We’ll have a sunny Saturday with a high near seventy and southwest winds of 5 to 10 mph. On this day in 1875, one of Wisconsin’s finest scientists passes away: 1875 – Increase Lapham Dies While Fishing On this date Increase Lapham died of a heart attack while fishing in Oconomowoc. Lapham served…

Good morning. It’s a beautiful and sunny Friday for Whitewater, with a high of sixty-three. Lovely. On this day in 1814, during the War of 1812, Francis SCott Key writes a poem later that becomes our national anthem: …Francis Scott Key pens a poem which is later set to music and in 1931 becomes America’s…

Good morning. We’ll have a sunny Thursday with a high of seventy-eight. Sunrise is 6:32 AM and sunset 7:10 PM. Image of a horse from the Lascaux caves via Lascaux page at Wikipedia On this day in 1940, remarkable cave paintings are discovered in France: Near Montignac, France, a collection of prehistoric cave paintings are…

Good morning. Wednesday brings showers and thunderstorms to the Whippet City, mostly in the morning. We’ll have a high of eighty-four and light west winds at 5 to 10 mph. It’s the twelfth anniversary of September 11th, and the New York Times website has an archive with the headline reporting on the attacks of that…

Good morning. Tuesday will be a hot and sunny day, with a high of ninety. At 5:30 PM tonight, there will be a joint Common Council and Planning session on the Zoning Rewrite project. For Tuesday, it’s a Scientific American trivia question about inside temperatures. (Clicking the question below takes you to the answer on…

Good morning. Whitewater begins her work week with cloudy skies through mid morning, then clearing, and a high of eighty-nine. Whitewater’s Planning Commission meets this evening at 6 PM. On this day in 1776, America becomes the United States: …the Continental Congress formally declares the name of the new nation to be the “United States”…

Good morning. A mostly cloudy Sunday, with a high of seventy-four, awaits. NASA recently launched a new moon probe, LADEE, and after a technical glitch now resolved, it’s on the way. ….LADEE moon mission, short for Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer, is aimed at studying the moon’s thin atmosphere and solving long-standing mysteries of…

Good morning. Saturday will be partly sunny, with a high of eighty-five, and a one-fifth chance of afternoon thundershowers. Sunrise was 6:26 AM, and sunset will be 7:19 PM. The moon is a waxing crescent with 5% of its visible disk illuminated. What do the skies above Japan look like? They look like this:

Good morning. Friday arrives as an increasingly sunny day, with a high of eighty-three. On this day in 1915, Britain produces the first tank: On this day in 1915, a prototype tank nicknamed Little Willie rolls off the assembly line in England. Little Willie was far from an overnight success. It weighed 14 tons, got…

Good morning. Thursday in Whitewater will be mostly sunny, with a high of seventy-four and east winds of 5 to 10 mph. The Landmarks Commission meets tonight at 6 PM in the City Manger’s Secret Lair Conference Room, on the second floor of City Hall. On this day in 1836, Texas elects a president: ….Sam…

Good morning. Wednesday will be sunny with a high of eighty-two, with west winds of 5 mph. Sunrise was 6:23 AM and sunset will be 7:24 PM. The moon is a waning crescent with only 1% of its visible disk illuminated. Via Wikipedia – Geronimo – Apache (1905) Description by Edward S. Curtis: This portrait…

Good morning. It’s a beautiful Tuesday for Whitewater: sunny, a high near seventy-five, and calm winds from the west at 5 mph in the morning. Common Council meets tonight at 6:30 PM. On this day in 1783, the Revolutionary War comes to a legal end: The American Revolution officially comes to an end when representatives…

Good morning. A mild and partly sunny Labor Day awaits, with a high of seventy-two and northwest winds at 5 to 10 mph. Sunrise was 6:21 AM and sunset will be 7:27 PM. On this day in 1945, Japan formally surrenders to the Allies aboard the U.S.S. Missouri. The Associated Press reported the news: Aboard…