Morning. We have some cloud, and were some showers that impact pocono mountains but they have dissipated. Just some cloud cover in berks county Lehigh Valley this morning. The it is pretty pleasant morning at 73 degrees. We have 87 percent relative humidity. Appropriately muggyish, 6 27 is your sunrise time. Other temperatures 67, mount pocono we are at 70 in trenton. Sixtynine Atlantic City. 66 degrees in wildwood. Dew points in the 60s so they are not as bad as they could be, we will see dew points rise today and especially tomorrow. So yesterday it the became official we had heat wave number six with 90 degrees as our High Temperature well a above that average of 84. Ninetytwo should be the high today. We will move in the four day heat wave with sun, cloud and possibility of the pop up shower or then are storm later in the day. That is your forecast for monday, last machine in august, and 4 01, bob kelly is on rakes this week so we will look at traffic all week long. Starting off wi
As we recognize Black History Month across our community and our nation, thanks to Carter G. Woodson, the father of Black History week, a precursor to Black History Month, I would like to call your attention to two ladies and a few black men of the old West who are a bit obscure in U.S. history.
The first being Pvt. Cathay Williams, who joined the Army for a three year enlistment as a man, in 1867 as Pvt. William Cathay. It was a time when all women were prohibited from joining the military. While the records are unclear, apparently, the Army was such need or haste for soldiers to support the expanding west of the Mississippi River post civil war, a normal military physical was over looked. Pvt. Cathay Williams was a large woman, 5 feet, 8 inches and weighing about 160, short hair and very physically fit in appearance.