Good morning.
It’s a ‘wintry mix’ for Whitewater before 1 PM, and a few flurries thereafter. Weather reporting has descended into base scare tactics and attention-grabbing alerts, all designed to induce fretting over even ordinary conditions, and through fretting to encourage repeat viewers for the Weather Channel or local news. One would think that the Midwest had never seen a snowflake, icicle, or raindrop.
It has; it will again. There is a place for people who’d like to avoid cold weather. It’s called the Deep South.
And yet, and yet, despite all the hyperbole over weather, the term ‘wintry mix’ is a welcome one: cold rain, sleet, flurries, or snow, all of them the concoction of winter. We area a strong people, able to endure (and enjoy) cold weather, and the wintry mix is simply part of our mix, day in, day out, this time of year.
Above our weather, the beauty of the night sky, including comets:
On this day in 1924, a Prohibition-related killing:
1924 – Antonio “Tony” Navarra murdered in Rum War
On this date Antonio “Tony” Navarra was gunned down by a hired killer. Born in Sicily in 1906 and longtime resident of Madison’s Greenbush neighborhood, Navarra presided over the Inner Council of Sicilians and sought to keep peace among the various factions engaging in illegal alcohol trade during Prohibition. With substantial income earned from his legitimate grocery business, he served as bail bondsman for the Regent Street gang. It was suspected that Navarra’s murder was orchestrated by Tony Musso, leader of the rival Milton Street gang and a former lieutenant of Al Capone. [Source: From Bishops to Bootleggers: A Biographical Guide to Resurrection Cemetery, pg. 191]
Google-a-Day asks a geography question: “What NY lake is sometimes referred to as the finger that is known in humans to have opposition and apposition movements?”
Even the local TV weather reporters are now dithering over the European Model Vs the American Model to further confuse predictions and cause alarm!!!!