September 6, 2022

September 6th is the 249th day of the year. There are 116 days remaining until the end of the year.

Back to school today!

Schools across Chatham-Kent open their doors for another school year this morning. Keep an eye out for students and buses on the roads today.

Mostly cloudy skies for day one, the humidity will make it feel like 30.

The Chatham branch of the Chatham-Kent Public Library hosts Movies @ Your Library every Tuesday.

Book your spot today to see Me and Earl and the Dying Girl. Movies start at 2pm.

There is limited space, registration is required.

Garbage and recycling pickup across Chatham-Kent will be pushed back one day this week because of the Labour Day holiday.

Friday pickups will be Saturday.

After another scrubbed launch attempt on Friday, NASA will not pursue a launch of Artemis I for the remainder of the launch period, which ends today.

The scrub was called at 11:17am, three hours before the beginning of the launch window.

The first attempt was called off on Monday due to a range of problems. The launch team made significant adjustments to try on Saturday, but those plans were scrubbed after team members discovered a liquid hydrogen leak that they spent the better part of the morning trying to resolve.

The Artemis I mission is just the beginning of a program that will aim to return humans to the moon and eventually land crewed missions on Mars.

Artemis I’s next launch attempt may not happen until later this year.

#Artemis Update: The team continues to troubleshoot, and plans to return with a variety of options early next week. We are standing down on any launch attempts through the current launch period, which ends Tuesday.

See https://t.co/dMVnvEQcfC for more information. pic.twitter.com/cCefwG9FO0

— NASA (@NASA) September 3, 2022

A new record for the hottest September day anywhere on the planet was set last week.

A thermometer at Death Valley, U.S. National Park in southern California, reached 127 degrees Fahrenheit (52 degrees C) on September 1st in the Furnace Creek area.

The scorching record comes close to the world’s highest recorded temperature, which also occurred in Death Valley in 1912, the mercury topped out at 134 degrees.

The heat wave continues in southern California today, temperatures are expected to reach 112F (44C) in Fresno and 110F (43C) in Sacramento.

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This post was written by Chris McLeod