Good morning, Whitewater
There are no public meetings scheduled in the city today.
The National Weather Service predicts a chance of showers and 86 degrees. The Farmers’ Almanac predicts that “the heat stays on!” and that temperatures climb “into the 90s.”
The Farmers’ Almanac predicts events not just a year ahead, but in multi-day clusters, where the multi-day prediction could mean either conditions duplicated over each of a few days, or the weather over the whole multi-day span, from beginning to end. You can guess that whatever was closer to the actual weather was the one the would insist that they meant all along.
In Wisconsin history on this date, in 1999, the first Brewer — Robin Yount — was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in a Brewers’ jersey.
From Wired, there’s a story on four women who made a significant impact on science, decades apart, each with a connection to July 25th:
July 25: In science and technology, spheres of society where women are woefully underrepresented, this day in history offers a bountiful exception. Here are the milestones:
In 1865, “James Barry,” the first woman physician in modern times, compelled to disguise herself as a man in order to practice her profession, dies.
In 1920, Rosalind Franklin, the unheralded co-discoverer of DNA, is born.
In 1978, Louise Joy Brown, the world’s first test-tube baby, is born.
In 1984, cosmonaut Svetlana Savitskaya becomes the first woman to walk in space.
An online article provides more information on each.