Hot town, Summer in the city.
Monday, July 20, 2026. It's the Moon's day . . . a near 100º day is forecasted for Green Country. Moderate Southerlies, bright sun, and for TulseyTown a heat index of 109º mid afternoon into the evening.
It was 57 years ago today that the first people landed on the Moon and walked the lunar surface.
It's also the date in 1976 when the first space craft made a successful landing on Mars.
It was on this day in 1875 that the largest recorded swarm of locusts in American history descended upon the Great Plains.
Today is the birthdate – debated but best guess – of Alexander the Great in 356 B.C. Pella, Macedonia [northwest of Thessaloníki] Greece.
It’s the birthday of the Italian humanist, scholar, and poet Petrarch, born in 1304 Arezzo, Italy.
It's also the birthday of New Zealand mountain climber and Antarctic explorer Edmund Hillary in 1919, Auckland, New Zealand. He and the Nepali-Indian Sherpa mountaineer Tenzing Norgay, were the first to reach the summit of Mount Everest.
Carlos Santana is 79 years old today. A multi-Grammy Award winner and Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee was born in 1947 Autlán de Navarro, Mexico
Sandra Oh is 55 today. The multi awarded actor was born in 1971 Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. Uniquely recognizable, she was the co-lead in the series “Killing Eve,” among many other roles. My fave is the sleeper support role in the small independent film “Sideways.”
The multi Academy nominated actor Natalie Wood was born in 1938 San Francisco.
And, Pulitzer prize novelist Cormac McCarthy was born today in 1933 Providence, Rhode Island.
Hot as it is, sometimes at the same time it can be cool and smooth.