Good morning.
In Whitewater, it’s more like winter again: sunny and thirty-five. In Maui, it’s nothing like winter: sunny and seventy-five.
Whitewater’s Police Commission meets today, at 6 PM.
On this day in 1943, the Battle of Guadalcanal ended with an American victory over Japan. A New York Times headline nicely described the result: “Guadalcanal Is Ours.”
The Wisconsin Historical Society describes a Wisconsin connection to the birth of the National Weather Service, on this day in 1870:
On this date President Ulysses S. Grant signed a joint resolution authorizing a National Weather Service, which had long been a dream of Milwaukee scientist Increase Lapham. Lapham, 19th-century Wisconsin’s premier natural scientist, proposed a national weather service after he mapped data contributed over telegraph lines in the Upper Midwest and realized that weather might be predicted in advance. He was concerned about avoiding potential disasters to Great Lakes shipping and Wisconsin farming, and his proposal was approved by Congress and authorized on this date. [Source: History Just Ahead: A Guide to Wisconsin’s Historical Markers, edited by Sarah Davis McBride]
Wired offers a collection of Award-Winning Microscope Videos. They’ve fourteen; here are two from that collection —
Google’s puzzle for today is for astronomers: “If you live to be 110, how many times will you be able to see Uranus orbit the sun?”