Good morning. Sunday will be a gradually sunnier day, with a high of twenty-nine, and northwest winds 10 to 15 mph. The moon’s now a waning crescent, and tomorrow will be one minute longer. On this day in 1838, Morse demonstrates the telegraph: …Samuel Morse’s telegraph system is demonstrated for the first time at the…

Good morning. Today brings a day of increasing clouds, and a high of thirty-three. We’ll have 9h 10m of sunlight, 10h 14m of daylight, and tomorrow will be one minute shorter. The Golden Gate bridge’s construction began on 1.5.33: On this day in 1933, construction starts on what will become one of America’s most famous…

Good morning. It’s a sunny Friday for the Whippet City, with a high of 29.  We’ll have west winds of 10 to 15 mph, 9h 9m of sunlight, 10h 13m of daylight, and tomorrow will be one minute longer. On 1.4.1785, author Jacob Grimm is born: On this day, the older of the two Grimm brothers, Jacob, is…

Good morning. Thursday brings a high of twenty-four, with west winds at 5 to 10 mph. On this day in 1924, a notable archaeological milestone: Two years after British archaeologist Howard Carter and his workmen discovered the tomb of the Pharaoh Tutankhamen near Luxor, Egypt, they uncover the greatest treasure of the tomb–a stone sarcophagus containing a solid gold coffin…

Good morning. Wednesday brings a day of gradual clearing, a high of twenty-one, and a wind chill between zero and ten. There will be 9h 7m of sunlight, 10h 11m of daylight, with a waning gibbous moon. On this day in 1905, the Russian surrender to the Japanese at Port Arthur was the first of…

Happy New Year. We’ll start off 2013 with a day of sunny skies and a high of only thirteen degrees. On this day in 1863, the Emancipation Proclamation took effect. On 1.1.1836, a new territory: 1836 – Wisconsin Territory Formed On this date the Wisconsin Territory was formed by an act of the Michigan Legislature. Brown County…

Good morning. Whitewater’s last day of 2012 will be partly sunny with a high of twenty-seven, with temperatures falling in the afternoon. On this day in 1946, long after actual fighting had ended, as a formality Pres. Truman proclaimed an end to the Second World War: The state of hostilities, a term covering the period…

Good morning. We’ve a sunny and chilly day before us in Whitewater. The high will be twenty-two, and there will be 9h 5m of sunlight and 10h 9m. Almost a century ago, on 12.30.1916, the controversial Rasputin was murdered in Russia: Sometime over the course of the night and the early morning of December 29-30,…

Good morning. It’s snow for Saturday in Whitewater, mostly in the morning, with only a slight accumulation. Today will top out at twenty-nine degrees, with northwest winds 5 to 10 mph. Here we go… Zeitgeist 2012: The Year in Review: In our own history on this day in 1879, 1879 – General William “Billy” Mitchell Born…

Good morning. Our week ends with a high of thirty, and a small amount of snow, of about an inch or two. There wil be 9h 3m of daylight, and 10h 8m of sunlight, with a full moon. On 12.28.1981, America’s first so-called test tube baby, Elizabeth Jordan Carr, was born: For the first time,…

Good morning. A cloudy Thursday with a high of twenty-eight awaits. We’ll have 9h 3m of sunlight and 10h 8m of daylight. There will be two public meetings in the city today. At 8 AM, Downtown Whitewater’s Board will meet, and at 4:30 PM in the afternoon there will be a meeting of the Community…

Good morning. Wednesday for Whitewater will be cloudy, with a high of twenty-nine and northeast winds at 10 to 15 mph. On this day in 1776, Gen Washington won his first great victory after crossing the Delaware: At approximately 8 a.m. on the morning of December 26, 1776, General George Washington‘s Continental Army reaches the outskirts…

Good morning. Christmas Eve brings a high of twenty-nine, and a thirty percent chance of snow in the afternoon, to Whitewater. On this day in 1923, Pres. Coolidge lights the first national Christmas tree: …President Calvin Coolidge touches a button and lights up the first national Christmas tree to grace the White House grounds. Not only was this the…

Good morning. Sunday in the Whippet City will grow increasingly cloudy, with a high of twenty-five. On this day in 1986, an aviation milestone:  “On Dec. 23, 1986, the experimental airplane Voyager, piloted by Dick Rutan and Jeana Yeager, completed the first non-stop, around-the-world flight without refueling as it landed safely at Edwards Air Force Base in California.”…