Good morning. Snow is likely this Palm Sunday in Whitewater, with a daytime accumulation of less than an inch. If that forecast should prove correct, March 18th will remain our last day with accumulation over one inch. The Punxsutawney Phil poll is now closed, over 81% of respondents believing him guilty following his recent criminal…

Good morning. Saturday will be mostly sunny with a high of thirty-five. There will be 12h 17m of sunlight, 13h 13m of daylight, and tomorrow will offer three minutes more. From the east coast, video of a presumed meteor streaking across the sky: On this day in 1839, O.K. makes an appearance in print (it…

Good morning. Friday brings sunny skies to Whitewater, with a high of thirty-two, and northwest winds at five miles per hour. On this day in 1765, Britain imposed the Stamp Act on America. It was a bad idea: In an effort to raise funds to pay off debts and defend the vast new American territories…

Good morning. Thursday in Whitewater will be sunny with a high of twenty-eight. We’ll have 12h 12m of sunlight, 13h 8m of daylight, and a waxing gibbous moon. On this day in 1965, Dr. King and over 3,000 marchers began trip from Selma to Montgomery – it was their third attempt, the first two having…

Good morning. Spring arrives in Whitewater, on a day with chance of snow showers and a high of nineteen. (Monday, March 18th is the most recent day to have a snowfall accumulation of at least an inch.) Whitewater’s Tech Park Board meets today at 8 AM. CNN asks if this is the best golf shot…

Good morning. Tuesday brings a high of twenty-six, and gradually clearing skies. Common Council meets tonight at 6:30 PM. A decade ago, the Iraq war begins: On this day in 2003, the United States, along with coalition forces primarily from the United Kingdom, initiates war on Iraq. Just after explosions began to rock Baghdad, Iraq’s…

Good morning. Monday brings snow during the day, with a high of thirty-five. If the National Weather Service is right, accumulation will be less than one inch. We’ll see. The city’s Library Board meets tonight at 6:30 PM. On this day in 1890, the Wisconsin Supreme Court rules against reading the Bible in public classrooms:…

Good morning. Sunday in Whitewater: mostly sunny, a high of thirty-one, with 12 hours of sunlight, and 12h 56m of daylight. From the deepest place in my heart, loving advice: avoid the Greyhound bus from Atlantic City to New York. On this day in 1776, the British retreat from Boston: …British forces are forced to…

Good morning. It’s a ‘wintry mix’ for Whitewater before 1 PM, and a few flurries thereafter. Weather reporting has descended into base scare tactics and attention-grabbing alerts, all designed to induce fretting over even ordinary conditions, and through fretting to encourage repeat viewers for the Weather Channel or local news. One would think that the…

Good morning. Friday brings rain to Whitewater, with a high of thirty-five. Today was, in 44 B.C., an especially bad day for Julius Caesar: Julius Caesar, the “dictator for life” of the Roman Empire, is murdered by his own senators at a meeting in a hall next to Pompey’s Theatre. The conspiracy against Caesar encompassed…

Good morning. Thursday brings mostly cloudy skies and a high of thirty-four (with a chance of snow) to Whitewater. On this day in 1879, Albert Einstein is born: On March 14, 1879, Albert Einstein is born, the son of a Jewish electrical engineer in Ulm, Germany. Einstein’s theories of special and general relativity drastically altered…

Good morning. It’s a sunny day ahead with a high of thirty. Today brings 11h 48m of sunshine, 12h 44m of daylight, and a new moon. On this day in 1855, American astronomer Percival Lovell is born. Lovell’s work aided Clyde W. Tombaugh in the discovery of Pluto, and it was Lovell, of course, who…

Good morning. Tuesday brings afternoon snow showers and a high of thirty-two. They can rebuild him. They have the technology. It’s just that he’s an alligator: On this day in 1933, FDR gives his first fireside chat: ….eight days after his inauguration, President Franklin D. Roosevelt gives his first national radio address or “fireside chat,” broadcast directly…

Good morning. Monday brings rain, turning to light snow, with little accumulation and a high of thirty-six. Whitewater’s Planning Commission meets today at 6:00 PM. On this day in 1818, a literary masterpiece is published: Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus is published. The book, by 21-year-old Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, is frequently called the world’s first…