Saturday in Whitewater will see morning sleet giving way to less cloudy skies and a high of 35. Sunrise is 7:24 and sunset is 4:40 for 9 hours 16 minutes of daytime. The moon is in its third quarter with 50.5 percent of its visible disk illuminated.
On this day in 49 BC, Caesar crosses the Rubicon, precipitating the start of civil war.
The U.S. labor market ended 2025 on a soft note, with job creation in December less than expected, according to a report Friday from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Nonfarm payrolls rose a seasonally adjusted 50,000 for the month, lower than the downwardly revised 56,000 in November and short of the Dow Jones estimate for 73,000.
At the same time, the unemployment rate fell to 4.4%, compared with the forecast for 4.5%.
Since Monday, flames have spread across a vast area of the “Comarca Andina” in southern Argentina, considered one of the top tourist destinations in the heart of the Andes Mountains. More than 350 people were attempting to halt the fire with the help of air support — including helicopters, amphibious planes, and air tankers — according to the government of Chubut province.
