Weather in northwest Orange County for Sunday, September 27, 2020

Weather in northwest Orange County for Sunday, September 27, 2020:

Today:

Patchy fog before 11am. Otherwise, cloudy through mid morning, then gradual clearing, with a high near 79. Light southeast wind becoming south 5 to 10 mph in the afternoon.

Tonight:

Patchy fog before 11am. Otherwise, mostly cloudy through mid morning, then gradual clearing, with a high near 88. Light west wind becoming south 5 to 10 mph in the afternoon. Winds could gust as high as 20 mph.

Highs are forecast to rise sharply, peaking in the mid-90s on Tuesday before gradually dropping.

Courtesy of HistoryNet:

• 1722 Birth of Samuel Adams, American revolutionary patriot and statesman, helped to organize the Boston Tea Party.
• 1840 Birth of Thomas Nast, caricaturist, creator of the Democratic donkey and the Republican elephant.
• 1864 Confederate guerrilla Bloody Bill Anderson and his henchmen, including a teenage Jesse James, massacre 20 unarmed Union soldiers at Centralia, Missouri. The event becomes known as the Centralia Massacre.
• 1869 Wild Bill Hickok, sheriff of Hays City, Kan., shoots down Samuel Strawhim, a drunken teamster causing trouble.
• 1918 President Woodrow Wilson opens his fourth Liberty Loan campaign to support men and machines for World War I.
• 1920 Eight Chicago White Sox players are charged with fixing the 1919 World Series.
• 1950 U.S. Army and Marine troops liberate Seoul, South Korea.
• 1956 The U.S. Air Force Bell X-2, the world’s fastest and highest-flying plane, crashes, killing the test pilot.
• 1964 The Warren Commission, investigating the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, issues its report, stating its conclusion that Lee Harvey Oswald was the sole gunman.
• 1979 US Congress approves Department of Education as the 13th agency in the US Cabinet.
• 2007 NASA launches Dawn probe to explore and study the two larges objects of the asteroid belt, Vesta and Ceres.