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Daily Bread for 6.29.25: Stay Hydrated

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Good morning. Sunday in Whitewater will be sunny with a high of 89. Sunrise is 5:19 and sunset is 8:37, for 15 hours, 18 minutes of daytime. The moon is a waxing crescent with 20 percent of its visible disk illuminated. On this day in 2007,  Apple Inc. releases its first mobile phone, the iPhone. Stay Hydrated:…

Cats, Daily Bread, Weather

Daily Bread for 2.15.25: Ready for the Weather

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Good morning.

Saturday in Whitewater will be cloudy with a high of 33. Sunrise is 6:51 and sunset is 5:26, for 10 hours, 35 minutes of daytime. The moon is a waning gibbous with 91.6 percent of its visible disk illuminated.

On this day in 1989, the Soviet Union officially announces that all of its troops have left Afghanistan.

Winter requires the right gear:

Preparing NASA’s CADRE Moon Rovers for Launch:

Three small lunar rovers were packed up at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory for the first leg of their multistage journey to the Moon. These suitcase-size rovers, along with a base station and camera system that will record their travels on the lunar surface, make up NASA’s CADRE (Cooperative Autonomous Distributed Robotic Exploration) technology demonstration. CADRE aims to prove that a group of robots can collaborate to gather data without receiving direct commands from mission controllers on Earth, paving the way for potential future multirobot missions. Seen here are tests of the CADRE software in January 2024 and scenes of a rover getting flipped over, attached to an aluminum plate for transit, and sealed into a protective metal-frame enclosure that was later packed into a metal shipping container a year later, in January 2025. The hardware was transported from JPL to Intuitive Machines’ Houston facility, where it will be integrated with the company’s Nova-C lander. Intuitive Machines’ third lunar mission (IM-3), which has a mission window extending into early 2026, will deliver CADRE and other NASA payloads to the Moon’s Reiner Gamma region. JPL, a division of Caltech in Pasadena, California, manages CADRE for the Game Changing Development program within NASA’s Space Technology Mission Directorate. IM-3 is a mission under NASA’s CLPS (Commercial Lunar Payload Services) initiative, which is managed by the agency’s Science Mission Directorate.

Daily Bread, Politics, Weather

Daily Bread for 2.2.25: Groundhog Predicts Six More Weeks of Controversy Winter

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Good morning.

Sunday in Whitewater will be cloudy with a high of 46. Sunrise is 7:08 and sunset is 5:09, for 10 hours, 2 minutes of daytime. The moon is a waxing crescent with 20.9 percent of its visible disk illuminated.

On this day in 1653,  New Amsterdam (now New York City) is incorporated.

Earlier today, in Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania, the world’s most famous meteorologist predicted six more weeks of winter.

An ordinary person can, reasonably, do Phil one better. We may have six more weeks of winter, but we’re sure to have more than six weeks of political controversy across the city, state, and nation. If there’s ever been an understatement, there it is…

As for Punxsutawney Phil, he saw his shadow:

New York inaugurates a new honorary dog mayor (since the human mayor of New York is under indictment, it’s probably for best):

New York inaugurated their new honorary dog mayor, a basset-cattle dog mix rescue named Simon.

Climate, Daily Bread, Space, Weather

Daily Bread for 12.21.24: Sure, It’s Winter Here, But It’s Springtime Only 103 Million Kilometers Away

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Good morning.

Winter begins this Saturday in Whitewater with partly sunny skies and a high of 19. Sunrise is 7:22 and sunset is 4:24, for 9 hours, 1 minute of daytime. The moon is a waning gibbous with 62.3 percent of its visible disk illuminated.

On this day in 1937,  Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, the world’s first full-length animated feature, premieres at the Carthay Circle Theatre.

Fall and Winter are may favorite seasons (in that order), but for those preferring warmer weather, there’s a place offering consolation. It’s winter here on Earth, but on springtime on Mars:

Mars scientists have recently marked a new year on the Red Planet, a milestone that occurs every 687 days. Because the Martian new year coincides with spring in the planet’s northern hemisphere, it’s a time of lots of activity — avalanches, exploding jets of gas, and more. JPL research scientist Serina Diniega explains some of the changes to the Martian surface that scientists can track with spacecraft like NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO).

(The distance between Earth and Mars varies, but today — 12.21 — it’s a short 103 million kilometers away.)

Creating a Christmas Song from Scratch in Five Days:

Christmas number 1 song? Top of the Xmas UK music chart? East 17. Mariah Carey. Wham!… Bobby and the Baubles? With the help of East 17’s John Hendy, music mogul Fred Casimir, and a bunch of Fiverr musicians, Great Big Story’s Bob Fletcher attempts to make this dream a reality.

Daily Bread, Weather, Wisconsin

Daily Bread for 7.14.24: Wet, and Now Drought-Free

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Good morning.

Sunday in Whitewater will be partly sunny with evening thundershowers and a high of 90. Sunrise is 5:30 and sunset 8:31 for 15h 00m 56s of daytime. The moon is a waxing gibbous with 56.1 percent of its visible disk illuminated.

On this day in 1789, revolutionary insurgents storm the Bastille:

After four hours of fighting and 94 deaths the insurgents were able to enter the Bastille. The governor de Launay and several members of the garrison were killed after surrender. The Bastille then represented royal authority in the centre of Paris. The prison contained only seven inmates at the time of its storming and was already scheduled for demolition, but was seen by the revolutionaries as a symbol of the monarchy’s abuse of power. 

On this day in 1960, Jane Goodall arrives at the Gombe Stream Reserve in present-day Tanzania to begin her study of chimpanzees in the wild.

Danielle Kaeding reports June Was One of Wettest Months in Wisconsin History (‘Wisconsin is drought-free after the entire state struggled with drought conditions in 2023’):

Last month was one of the wettest on record for June in a dramatic reversal from the drought conditions that covered Wisconsin at the same time last year.

The month marked the sixth-wettest June in state history based on records dating back to 1895. That’s according to Steve Vavrus, director of the Wisconsin State Climatology Office.“Last June was the fifth-driest statewide, so this marks the biggest one-year precipitation flip-flop from one June to the next,” Vavrus said.

In June, the state averaged 6.97 inches in rainfall, which was 2.27 inches above normal for the month.

“Most parts of the state had more wet days than dry days in June, which is especially unusual in the summer,” Vavrus said.

The La Crosse area set a monthly record with 24 days of rain last month compared to the previous record of 22 days seen in 1935 and 2013. Frequent rain prompted flooding along the Mississippi River and brought water levels to its second-highest for the month at 11.01 feet.

While all regions saw more rain than normal, climate data shows northwestern and southcentral Wisconsin experienced the most rain.In southcentral Wisconsin, Madison saw a total of 8.82 inches for the month of June. Meteorologist Nate Falkinham with the Milwaukee/Sullivan office for the National Weather Service said rainfall was more than 3.5 inches above the norm.

Watch Hurricane Beryl’s ‘full journey’ in 12-day infrared time-lapse:

See Hurricane Beryl’s journey in this infrared time-lapse captured from June 28 to July 9, 2024 by NOAA’s GOES-16 satellite.

Climate, Daily Bread, Weather, Wisconsin

Daily Bread for 2.9.24: A February Tornado in Wisconsin

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 Good morning.

Friday in Whitewater will be partly sunny with a high of 47. Sunrise is 6:59 and sunset 5:18 for 10h 19m 39s  of daytime. The moon is new with 0.1% of its visible disk illuminated.

On this day in 1841, the U.S. Supreme Court rules in the United States v. The Amistad case that captive Africans who had seized control of the ship carrying them had been taken into slavery illegally.

  Wisconsin Public Radio reports First-ever February tornado recorded along Dane-Rock County border:

For the first time on record for February, a tornado touched down Thursday night near Edgerton along the Dane-Rock County border.

The National Weather Service confirmed the tornado at 6:00 p.m. and said it was a dangerous storm and to “seek immediate safe shelter if in its path.”

A tornado warning was issued for northeastern Rock, southeastern Dane and southwestern Jefferson counties in effect until 6:30 p.m.

Videos show portions of last night’s storm:

Orcas trapped in sea ice off Japan’s coast have escaped:

Animals, Weather

Friday Groundhog Blogging

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Punxsutawney Phil has emerged from his burrow to forecast there will be an early spring. The spectacle that is Groundhog Day at Gobbler’s Knob in Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania took place as usual. The prognosticator of prognosticators emerged at dawn on Friday. Members of his inner circle revealed he had not seen his shadow, which is rare,…