May 23, 2019

May 23rd is the 143rd day of the year. There are 222 days remaining until the end of the year.

Environment Canada has issued a special weather statement for Chatham-Kent, advising of a possible strong thunderstorm this morning.

“Scattered strong thunderstorms have developed to the west of Lake Michigan and are expected to track eastward and southeastward overnight. These thunderstorms may clip extreme southwestern Ontario early Thursday morning,” the weather agency said.

Environment Canada said it has the potential for isolated wind gusts of 90 kilometers per hour and hail.

Reminder: Garbage and recycling have been pushed back one day this week for the Victoria Day holiday.

There’s a Blood Donor Clinic on Saturday at the St. Clair College Healthplex.

Stop by between 9-noon to save a life.

Book your appointment now at Blood.ca, use the apps, call 1-888-2-DONATE or just walk in.

Game 5 of the NBA’s Eastern Conference Final is tonight in Milwaukee.

The Raptors and the Bucks are tied at 2 games each. The home team has won each game so far.

The winner of this best of 7 will play the Golden State Warriors in the final.

Tip off at 8:30 on TSN.

An asteroid, named 1999 KW 4, is going to whiz by Earth this weekend at 77,000 KM/h.

The asteroid has its own Moon and will be visible on Saturday night until May 27th. The asteroid will be 5.2 million kilometres from Earth when it passes

A massive asteroid with its own moon trailing behind will pass by Earth this weekend https://t.co/1YRyGz7Udg pic.twitter.com/FOIZUjDowv

— CBS News (@CBSNews) May 22, 2019

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This post was written by Chris McLeod