Good morning. Welcome to the new year. If you’re in Whitewater, your second day of the year will be mostly sunny with a high temperature of twenty degrees. In Knoxville, ahead awaits a mostly sunny day with a high temperature of thirty-nine. I’ve had doubts about part parts of the Occupy movement’s agenda (that’s an…

Good morning. Winter makes her presence felt in Whitewater: it’s a wintery mix of rain, sleet, and snow ahead today, with a high temperature of thirty six. In Pierre, South Dakota: breezy and forty-six. On this day in 1922, a Prohibition raid in Madison: 1922 – Authorities Confiscate Illegal Alcohol On this date authorities in…

Good morning. It’s a day with a high of forty-one for Whitewater, with a chance of a wintry mix earlier in the morning. In caucus state Iowa, Cedar Rapids will see a mostly sunny day with a high of forty-six. It’s a puzzle from Google today, about a liberty-loving American: “Henry David Thoreau wrote about…

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:…