Good morning, High winds and morning rain visit the Whippet City today, with a high temperature of fifty-one. I’m sometimes asked why I write briefly about the weather each morning. There are three reasons. First, it’s a holdover from a long-ago comparison I made between the Farmers’ Almanac and National Weather Service forecasts. Second, it…

Good morning, It’s a rainy day with a high temperature of fifty-four for Whitewater today. Whitewater’s an old Midwestern town, and her Landmarks Commission meets this afternoon at 5 PM. The Commission’s agenda for the meeting is available online. Wired has an article about humanity’s domination of the planet. In Making Sense of 7 Billion…

Good morning, I hope you had a happy Halloween, one of all treats, no tricks. Today will be mostly sunny day with a high of sixty-two in Whitewater – unseasonable, but pleasantly so. Whitewater’s Common Council resumes budget deliberations tonight. The meeting’s agenda is available online. At Science News, Rachel Ehrenberg reports that Facebook value…

Good morning, It’s a partly cloudy Halloween ahead for Whitewater, with a high temperature of fifty-one. Trick or Treat in Whitewater runs from 4 to 7 PM today. It’s one of the traditional and quaint features of life in Whitewater that we’ve kept the celebration of the holiday on the holiday, rather than moving it…

Good morning – It’s a day of afternoon showers ahead for Whitewater, with a high temperature in the mid-fifties. Today at 9 AM, a genuine and special treat, no tricks involved – the premiere here on FW of Deo Gracias Anglia from Ben Sommer’s second album, Super Brain. It’s Halloween season, and on Halloween morning…

Good morning – It’s a chance of rain and a high temperature of around fifty-four for Whitewater today. On this day in 1864, a Wisconsin resident did the Badger State proud: 1864 – Waukesha Soldier Sinks Confederate Ship On this date William Cushing led an expedition to sink the Confederate ram, the Albermarle, which had…

Good morning – A mostly cloudy day with a high temperature of about fifty: Whitewater’s meteorological Wednesday. The City of Whitewater’s Zoning Rewrite Steering Committee meets this afternoon at 5 PM (agenda online). These are the early steps in a long process. There’s sure to be some worry that, if there are any changes to…

Good morning. Here in Whitewater, it’s rainy – typical of our fall – and today brings showers and a high temperature of sixty-six. In the city today, there’s a meeting of Common Council at 6:30 PM. There’s a budget to consider, and copies of the budget proposal and tonight’s council agenda are available online. Consideration…

Good morning. It’s a sunny day in small-town Whitewater, with a high temperature of sixty-three in store. It’s dark more than it’s light these days, with fewer than eleven hours of sunlight, and about eleven and a half hours of daylight. If the evenings are clear, it’s particularly lovely. There’s a meeting of the Community…

Good morning. It’s a partly cloudy Friday ahead, with a high temperature in the mid-fifties.  Indian summer now having passed, fall seems like fall. In the city today, there will be a public meeting of the ‘CDA Special Director Review Committee’ at 4 PM. The agenda for the meeting is available online. It’s all part…

Good morning. Thursday in Whitewater looks to be a windy and rainy day, with a high temperature of fifty-two. The Wisconsin Historical Society notes that on this day in 1856, On this date Frederick Douglass arrived in Beaver Dam and spoke about the brutality and immorality of slavery. His speech was also intended to generate support for…

Good morning. It’s a day of high winds and showers in store for Whitewater, with the temperature topping out at about 50 degrees. If you were looking for microbial life beyond Earth but elsewhere in the solar system, where might you look? Planetary scientists think the answer is somewhere other than Mars: Scientists are now…

Good morning. Whitewater’s Tuesday forecast calls for a mostly cloudy day, with high temperature of fifty-four degrees. There are two principal public meetings scheduled for Whitewater today.  At 4:15 PM, there will be a meeting of Whitewater’s Urban Forestry Commission.  Later, at 6:30 PM, there will be a meeting of Whitewater’s Common Council.  The Common…

It’s a mostly sunny day, with a high temperature of sixty-one, but a freeze risk tonight, awaiting us. You may have wondered if piranhas make sounds, and if they do, what sounds they make.  Scientists in Belgium have your answer: ….according to Sandie Millot, Pierre Vandewalle and Eric Parmentier from the University of Liège, Belgium,…