Good morning. Late December in Whitewater: Mostly cloudy in the thirties. In San Francisco: Mostly cloudy, but sixty-one. There’s a funny quote attributed to Mark Twain about San Francisco’s weather (“The coldest winter I ever saw was the summer I spent in San Francisco”), but sixty-one at any time is mild when considered from Wisconsin.…

Good morning. Whitewater will look forward today to a mostly cloudy day with a high temperature of thirty-six, and a slight chance of rain or snow.  In Portland, it’s a rainy day with a high of forty-six. On this day in 1979, “Soviet forces seized control of Afghanistan. President Hafizullah Amin, who was overthrown and…

Good morning. It’s a day in the low forties in store for Whitewater, but a day of snow showers and a high of thirty-five for Bangor. The Cassini spacecraft snapped a photo of Saturn’s moons Titan and Dione in front of Saturn’s rings, and it’s a lovely and (by definition) other-worldly photo: Google’s question for today…

Good morning. It’s a cloudy day with a high of thirty-two ahead for Whitewater.  In St. Louis, today will be a day of decreasing clouds and a high of forty. On this day in 1986, a triumph of aviation: the experimental airplane Voyager, piloted by Dick Rutan and Jeana Yeager, completed the first non-stop, around-the-world…

Good morning. For Whitewater, there’s a chance of a dusting of snow this morning, with a daytime high just above freezing.  In Santa Fe, they’re also expecting snow (1-2 inches), and temperatures just below freezing. On this day in 1864, Pres. Lincoln received a present a few days ahead of the twenty-fifth: On Dec. 22, 1864, during…

Good morning. There’s a slight chance of rain or snow in Whitewater today, with a high of forty-degrees. In Nashville, there’s also a chance of showers, but with a high temperature of sixty-one. In 1879, a day of particular, industrial tragedy for Wisconsin, as the Wiscosnin Historical Society recalls: 1879 – Fire Destroys Phillip Brewing Company On…

Good morning. If you were in Whitewater today, you’d be in a small Midwestern town with a high temperature of thirty-seven, and partly sunny skies.  In New Orleans, you’d walk through a city during a day of scattered showers and mid-seventies temperatures. There’s an Urban Forestry Commission meeting at 4:15 PM, and a  Common Council session…

Good morning. It’s an increasingly cloudy day with  a high temperature of thirty-nine ahead for Whitewater.  In Austin, TX, they’ll have a day of thunderstorms and a high temperature of sixty-eight. The housing committee of Whitewater’s Community Development Authority meets today at 4 PM. Amazing, but true: a comet survives a close encounter with the sun. NASA explains its video…

Good morning. It’s a sunny day for Whitewater, with a high temperature of thirty-two degrees.  In Lincoln Manor, Maryland, it’s a partly sunny day ahead, with a high temperature of forty-six. The Wisconsin Historical Society recalls that on this day in 1922, ….James Davidson died. He was born in Norway in 1854 and emigrated in 1872. He became…

Good morning. It’s a windy day in store for Whitewater, with a high of forty-degrees, but falling temperatures later in the day.  In Naples, Florida, it will be mostly sunny and thirty-eight degrees warmer. Looking for a sample from a comet? If you were, you might do what NASA is considering — using a six-foot crossbow to harpoon the comet:…

Good morning. It’s a rainy day in Whitewater, with a high temperature likely to be around forty-seven.  In San Diego, there’ll be partly cloudy skies and a high of sixty. Whitewater’s Tech Park board meets today at 8 AM.  On the agenda, for closed session, is the same item that’s been on prior of the…

Good morning. For Whitewater today, it’s likely to be a cloudy day with a high temperature of forty-two.  In Anchorage, the forecast calls for a cloudy day, but with temperatures in the teens to lower twenties. The Wisconsin Historical Society recalls that on this day in 1864, Emil Seidel was born in Ashland, Pennsylvania. His family moved to…

Good morning. Monday will be a mild day for Whitewater, with a high temperature of forty-one. In New Haven, CT today, about the same temperature: sunny and forty-four. It’s an afternoon of public meetings for Whitewater: the CDA meets at 4:30 PM, the Planning Commission at 6 PM, and the Library Board at 6:30 PM. If you’re surfing the…

Good morning. Our week in the Whippet City ends, and the weekend begins, with a sunny and cold day, and a high temperature of twenty-three. That’s not much different from the forecast for Santa Fe, New Mexico: thirty-five and sunny. Warmer, but only a bit above freezing. NASA has a video explaining lunar eclipses, of…