Good morning.
It’s a mostly cloudy day with a high temperature of thirty-five for Whitewater. In Central Park, it’s a rainy day ahead with a high temperature of forty-two.
The Wisconsin Historical Society recalls that on this day in 1925
Fire Destroys Whitewater Hospital
On this date a fire destroyed the Whitewater Hospital. Monetary losses were estimated at $20,000, but no deaths were reported. [Source: Janesville Gazette]
In the fall, NASA launched an Earth-observing satellite, Suomi NPP. Here’s their description of the satellite:
The Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership (Suomi NPP) mission represents a critical first step in building the next-generation Earth-observing satellite system that will collect data on both long-term climate change and short-term weather conditions.
Suomi NPP will extend and improve upon the Earth system data records established by NASA’s Earth Observing System (EOS) fleet of satellites that have provided critical insights into the dynamics of the entire Earth system: clouds, oceans, vegetation, ice, solid Earth and atmosphere.
The Suomi NPP spacecraft lifted off aboard a United Launch Alliance Delta II rocket from Space Launch Complex 2 at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California on Oct. 28, 2011 at 5:48 a.m. EDT.
The satellite has its own flickr gallery of astonishing images.
Google’s puzzle for today is one of notation and codes: “1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.g3 d5 4.Bg2 dxc4 5.Nf3 Be7. What is the ECO code of this opening?”