Good morning,
Whitewater’s forecast calls for a mostly sunny day, with a high temperature of sixty-four degrees.
In the CIty of Whitewater, the library board meets tonight at 6:30 p.m. That agenda is available online.
Whitewater’s district administrator will conduct two listening sessions today, at the district’s Central Office, in English from 5:00-5:45 p.m. and Spanish from 5:45 to 6:30 p.m. Central Office is located at 419 South Elizabeth Street.
Lakeview School has a book fair this week, as does the Middle School.
The Wisconsin Historical Society recalls that on this day in 1870,
First National Weather Forecast Published
On this date Increase Lapham recorded the first published national weather forecast, calling for “high winds and falling temperatures for Chicago, Detroit and the Eastern cities.” [Source: History Just Ahead: A Guide to Wisconsin’s Historical Markers edited by Sarah Davis McBride]
We’ve come a long way, as Alexandra Witze at ScienceNews.org reports, in a story entitled, “Hurricane forecasts can be made years in advance,” that
The parade of storms that pummels the western fringe of the North Atlantic every year just got a bit more predictable. Scientists say they have developed a way to forecast how many Atlantic hurricanes there will be — not just for the upcoming year, as some groups already do each spring, but for several years out.
“This is the first time anyone has reported skill in predicting the number of hurricanes beyond the seasonal time scale,” says Doug Smith, a climate modeler at the Met Office Hadley Centre in Exeter, England. A paper by Smith and his colleagues appeared online Nov. 7 in Nature Geoscience.