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…

Good morning. A new month begins, with high of eighty-three and an even chance of afternoon thunderstorms. Sunrise was 6:20 AM, and sunset will be 7:29 PM. The moon is a waning crescent with 14% of its visible disk illuminated. The Friday Poll’s now closed, but on the question of whether it’s a good idea…

Good morning. The month ends on an initially cloudy day that will later grow sunnier, with a high of eighty, and northeast winds of 5 mph. On this day in 1980, the Polish trade union Solidarity formally organizes, after weeks of labor strikes, to represent Polish workers in a Communist country that supposedly had no…

Good morning. We’ve an even chance of thunderstorms this afternoon, with a high of ninety-one, and southwest winds five to fifteen mph. The Picture shows a East-German Teleprinter of Type T63-SU12 from Siemens (formerly Siemens & Halske). This Teleprinter was used from 1963-1980 as a part of the special transatlantic Moscow–Washington hotline, also known as…

Good morning. We’ll have a sunny Thursday with a high of eighty-five and calm winds. Those wishing to hear the School Board meeting of Monday, August 26th (during which the Board hired a new principal for the middle school, among other items) can do so via Whitewater Community Television. The program airs again today at…