Monday Morning News – August 31st

Weather:

• Today – Cloudy. 40% chance of showers this morning. Showers beginning early this afternoon. Risk of a thunderstorm this afternoon. Fog patches dissipating this morning. Amount 5 to 10 mm. High 20. Humidex 26. UV index 5 or moderate.
• Tonight – Showers ending late this evening then cloudy with 40% chance of showers. Risk of a thunderstorm this evening. Fog patches developing overnight. Amount 5 mm. Low 16.

News Tidbits:

• The Wawa Goose that greets travellers on Hwy 17 and welcomes them to Wawa changed appearance Saturday afternoon. The Goose is now wearing a necklace of sorts – a keychain clasp in advance of tomorrow’s launch of Petro-Canada’s Give A Honk campaign at 10:30 a.m.
• The next telescope to peer into space launched yesterday. The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will spend the next five- to 10-years mission will hopefully find answers about dark matter and dark energy, identify tens of thousands of exoplanets, and more. Equipped with a 300-megapixel infrared camera and an 8-foot mirror, Roman has the precision of the Hubble telescope but a field of view 100 times larger and can scan 1,000 times faster.