Good morning.
Tuesday in Whitewater will be cloudy with a high of 24. Sunrise is 7:25 and sunset is 4:30 for 9 hours 5 minutes of daytime. The moon is a waxing gibbous with 80.6 percent of its visible disk illuminated.
On this day in 1916, Russian mystic and advisor to the Tsar, Grigori Yefimovich Rasputin, is murdered by a loyalist group led by Prince Felix Yusupov. His frozen, partially-trussed body was discovered in a Petrograd river three days later.
Whitewater had only a bit of snow, with cold temperatures. By contrast, quite a bit of snow fell in northern Wisconsin on December 28-29:
The bulk of the snow fall in Wisconsin Dec. 28 into Dec. 29 fell in far north-central parts of the state, Miller said. Some areas received over a foot.
- Saxon: 17 inches
- Land O’ Lakes: 14 inches
- Eagle River: 13 inches
- Minocqua: 12 inches
- Tomahawk: 10.2 inches
- Ashland: 7.8 inches
See Kelli Arseneau, Up to 17 inches of snow fell in Wisconsin overnight, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, December 29, 2025.
Next time, perhaps. Plenty of time for winter adventures.
It was always kinda suspicious: