Good morning.
We will have a thirty-percent chance of afternoon snow, but a near-certainty of evening snow, with an accumulation of three to five inches. The high for today will be thirty degrees.
Sunrise today is 7:23 AM and sunset 4:24 PM. The moon is a waning gibbous with 84% of its visible disk illuminated.
On this day in 1879, dictator and mass murderer Joseph Stalin (Vissarionovich Djugashvili) is born. He died in 1953.
On this day in 1862, Wisconsinites drive on:
1862 – (Civil War) The 2nd Wisconsin Cavalry sets out for Vicksburg
The 2nd Wisconsin Cavalry participated in Grierson’s Raid on the Mobile and Ohio Railroad in Tennessee. This was the first engagement in a movement by Union Col. Benjamin Grierson. It led 3,500 men on a 450-mile ride from Tennessee through Mississippi, arriving in Vicksburg on January 5, 1863.