Good morning Yonkers, its Monday time for another work week. Currently in Yonkers it is raining and 70 to 72 degrees with south winds at 3 mph, the humidity is 83%, the dew point is at 64 degrees, the barometer is 29.5 inches and falling, and the visibility is 7 miles. Today will be partly cloudy with isolated thunderstorms possible, a high of 81 degrees with south-west winds at 15 to 25 mph. There is a 30% chance of rain. Some clouds this evening will give way to mainly clear skies overnight, a low of 61 degrees with west winds at 10 to 20 mph. Sun-up occurs at 5:48 AM and descends gracefully beyond the Palisades at 8:15 PM. You’ll have 14 hours and 26 minutes of available daylight. Madison, Dane County, Wisconsin. At 4:31 AM CDT Madison is clear and 57 degrees. Madison will have sun and clouds mixed today, a high near 75 degrees with north winds at 10 to 15 mph. Partly cloudy tonight, a chance of a shower or thunderstorm through the evening, a low of 57 degrees with north-west winds at 5 to 10 mph. Minsk, Belarus Region, Belarus. At 12:35 PM FET Minsk is fair and 84 degrees. Today Minsk will have sun and clouds mixed, continued very warm, a high of 83 degrees with south/south-east winds at 5 to 10 mph. Mainly clear tonight, a low of 62 degrees with south/south-east winds at 5 to 10 mph. Dothan, Houston County, Alabama. At 4:39 AM CDT Dothan is clear and 78 degrees. *** A HEAT ADVISORY IS IN EFFECT 1 PM CDT TO 5 PM CDT MONDAY. *** Partially cloudy early, with scattered showers and thunderstorms for the afternoon, a few storms may be severe, a high of 97 degrees with the heat index near 110 degrees, winds from the west at 10 to 15 mph, and the chance of rain is 50%. Scattered thunderstorms early tonight and then partly cloudy after midnight, a low of 69 degrees with north-west winds at 5 to 10 mph. There is a 60% chance of rain. Today 7/28 In HISTORY: 1 - 1868 - Following its ratification by the necessary three-quarters of U.S. states, the 14th Amendment, guaranteeing to African Americans citizenship and all its privileges, is officially adopted into the U.S. Constitution. Two years after the Civil War, the Reconstruction Acts of 1867 divided the South into five military districts, where new state governments, based on universal manhood suffrage, were to be established. Thus began the period known as Radical Reconstruction, which saw the 14th Amendment, which had been passed by Congress in 1866, ratified in July 1868. The amendment resolved pre-Civil War questions of African American citizenship by stating that all persons born or naturalized in the United States...are citizens of the United States and of the state in which they reside. The amendment then reaffirmed the privileges and rights of all citizens, and granted all these citizens the equal protection of the laws. 2 - 1776 - American Revolution - Colonel Paul Dudley Sargent with the 16th Continental Regiment and Colonel Israel Hutchinson with his 27th Continental Regiment, both from Massachusetts, as well as several British ships, arrive at Horns Hook, New York, on this day in 1776. 3 - 1864 - Civil War - At the Battle of Ezra Church, Georgia, Confederates under General John Bell Hood make a third attempt to break General William T. Shermans hold on Atlanta. Like the first two, this attack failed, destroying the Confederate Army of Tennessees offensive capabilities. 4 - 1945 - In a ringing declaration indicating that Americas pre-World War II isolation was truly at an end, the U.S. Senate approves the charter establishing the United Nations. In the years to come, the United Nations would be the scene of some of the most memorable Cold War confrontations between the United States and the Soviet Union. 5 - 1945 - A United States military plane crashes into the Empire State Building on this day in 1945, killing 14 people. The freak accident was caused by heavy fog. 6 - 1932 - During the Great Depression, President Herbert Hoover orders the U.S. Army under General Douglas MacArthur to evict by force the Bonus Marchers from the nations capital. Two months before, the so-called Bonus Expeditionary Force, a group of some 1,000 World War I veterans seeking cash payments for their veterans bonus certificates, had arrived in Washington, D.C. Most of the marchers were unemployed veterans in desperate financial straits. In June, other veteran groups spontaneously made their way to the nations capital, swelling the Bonus Marchers to nearly 20,000 strong. Camping in vacant government buildings and in open fields made available by District of Columbia Police Chief Pelham D. Glassford, they demanded passage of the veterans payment bill introduced by Representative Wright Patman. 7 - 1976 - At 3:42 a.m., an earthquake measuring between 7.8 and 8.2 magnitude on the Richter scale flattens Tangshan, a Chinese industrial city with a population of about one million people. As almost everyone was asleep in their beds, instead of outside in the relative safety of the streets, the quake was especially costly in terms of human life. An estimated 242,000 people in Tangshan and surrounding areas were killed, making the earthquake one of the deadliest in recorded history, surpassed only by the 300,000 who died in the Calcutta earthquake in 1737, and the 830,000 thought to have perished in Chinas Shaanxi province in 1556. 8 - 1972 - Vietnam War - In response to Soviet accusations that the United States had conducted a two-month bombing campaign intentionally to destroy the dikes and dams of the Tonkin Delta in North Vietnam, a CIA report is made public by the Nixon administration. The report revealed that U.S. bombing at 12 locations had in fact caused accidental minor damage to North Vietnams dikes, but the damage was unintentional and the dikes were not the intended targets of the bombings. The nearly 2,000 miles of dikes on the Tonkin plain, and more than 2,000 along the sea, made civilized life possible in the Red River Delta. Had the dikes been intentionally targeted, their destruction would have destroyed centuries of patient work and caused the drowning or starvation of hundreds of thousands of peasants. Bombing the dikes had been advocated by some U.S. strategists since the beginning of U.S. involvement in the war, but had been rejected outright by U.S. presidents sitting during the war as an act of terrorism. 9 - 1914 - World War One - On July 28, 1914, one month to the day after Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria and his wife were killed by a Serbian nationalist in Sarajevo, Austria-Hungary declares war on Serbia, effectively beginning the First World War. 10 - 1943 - World War Two - The worst British bombing raid on Hamburg so far virtually sets the city on fire, killing 42,000 German civilians. On July 24, British bombers launched Operation Gomorrah, repeated bombing raids against Hamburg and its industrial and munitions plants. Sortie after sortie dropped fire from the sky, as thousands of tons of incendiary bombs destroyed tens of thousands of lives, buildings, and acreage. But the night of the 28th saw destruction unique in more than three years of bomb attacks: In just 43 minutes, 2,326 tons of bombs were dropped, creating a firestorm (a word that entered English parlance for the first time as a result of these events). Low humidity, a lack of fire-fighting resources (exhausted from battling blazes caused by the previous nights raids), and hurricane-level winds at the core of the storm literally fanned the flames, scorching eight square miles of Hamburg. Another Morose Monday when the drudgery begins anew for the people who are still in the workforce. Do not despair, even though the days seem long - the weeks go by so quickly. It is scary how time flies. Yesterday in the world of baseball, the Yankees lost again to Toronto 5-4 while Baltimore defeated the Mariners 3-2 moving the Blue Jays into sole possession of 2nd place but the Yankees have to more games left to play in the season than Toronto, the Yankees trail the Orioles now by 4 games. The Red Sox beat TB 3-2. In the senior league the Mets shut out the Brewers 2-0 earning a split in the 2 game serious and a .500 road trip. Drive very careful today, the roads may be difficult and with a decent wind you may have some wet leaves to contend with. As always keep safe and keep smiling - have a wonderful day!
Posted on: Mon, 28 Jul 2014 09:58:27 +0000