Good morning, Whitewater.
We’ll have a one-third chance of late afternoon showers, with a high of eighty-three today.
On this day in 1776, Richard Henry Lee, a delegate to the Second Continental Congress from Virginia, introduces a resolution:
That these United Colonies are, and of right out to be, free and independent States, that they are absolved from all allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain is, and ought to be, totally dissolved; that measures should be immediately taken for procuring the assistance of foreign powers, and a Confederation be formed to bind the colonies more closely together.
Astronaut Reid Wiseman, now aboard the International Space Station, recorded a Vine (a short, repeating video) showing that the sun never sets if one orbits parallel and above the boundary between day and night: