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 gives faraway readers an idea of what conditions are like here on any particular day. (Questions received about the city range from weather to politics to how many cows we have.) Third, it’s simply a rhetorical scene-setter for my morning post.
More about that scene: it’s a new moon, and we’ll have 10h 14m of sunlight and 11h 13m of daylight.
There’s a Police Commission meeting in town tonight, beginning at 6 PM, with both open and closed sessions (the closed session taking part in the middle of the meeting, for interviews of police captain candidates). The meeting agenda is available online.
Good news –
Recently released statistics show the state produced 219 million pounds of cheese in September, up one percent from that month a year ago. That production accounted for one-fourth of the nation’s cheese output.
Wisconsin may have her share of problems, but she’s still – and I would guess forever will be — America’s leading cheese-producer. We’ll not be bested. See, Wisconsin still tops the nation in cheese production.