Good morning.
Thursday in Whitewater see afternoon thundershowers with a high of 85. Sunrise is 5:38 and sunset is 8:23, for 14 hours, 45 minutes of daytime. The moon is new with 0.2 percent of its visible disk illuminated.
On this day in 1935, the Dust Bowl heat wave reaches its peak, sending temperatures to 109 °F (43 °C) in Chicago and 104 °F (40 °C) in Milwaukee.
Whitewater’s public library, now undergoing a renovation, is being renamed, sensibly, the Whitewater Public Library:
The change has been under discussion for months in public meetings of the library board. (As a matter of law, this board was free to change the name, based on the scant conditions of the prior naming agreement, the significant renovation of the building now underway, and a general presumption in Wisconsin law against a perpetual designation in light of the former.)
As it turns out, the library board has picked well: it’s a good name for this town’s library.
Galaxies, exploded stars and more in new NASA Chandra images: