Good morning.
Christmas Day in Whitewater will be cloudy with a high of 39. Sunrise is 7:24 and sunset is 4:26 for 9 hours 2 minutes of daytime. The moon is a waxing crescent with 27.1 percent of its visible disk illuminated.
On this day in 1758, Halley’s Comet is sighted by Johann Georg Palitzsch, confirming Edmund Halley‘s prediction of its passage. This was the first passage of a comet predicted ahead of time.
Pope Leo marks his first Christmas at the Vatican: