Jim Field visits with Cass County Naturalist Lora Kanning about the bald eagle programs presented in June at Cass County libraries.
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Jim Field visits with Cass County Naturalist Lora Kanning about the bald eagle programs presented in June at Cass County libraries.
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The area’s top news at 7:06-a.m., w/KJAN News Director Ric Hanson
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Class 1-A First Round
Friday, June 9 – Class 1-A Semifinals
Class 2-A First Round
Friday, June 9 – Class 2-A Semifinals
Class 3-A First Round
Friday, June 9 – Class 3-A Semifinals
Hawkeye Ten Conference
Western Iowa Conference
Rolling Valley Conference
Pride of Iowa Conference
Hawkeye Ten Conference
Western Iowa Conference
Rolling Valley Conference
Corner Conference
Pride of Iowa Conference
In an update to our story first posted Wednesday morning on KJAN.com’s News page, authorities have charged a Council Bluffs man accused of spanking his 2-year-old so hard she was left with several bruises. Court records say 25-year-old Ryan Rapier is charged with felony child endangerment resulting in injury.
The girl’s godmother had noticed bruises on the girl’s face, legs and bottom, and she told investigators that Rapier had said the girl had fallen out of her crib. Rapier told investigators that he’d spanked the girl twice Monday because she kept getting out of her crib and throwing things around the bedroom. He said he lost his temper and didn’t mean to hurt the child.
(Updated 6-a.m.)
A hot and slightly humid airmass will be in place this weekend into early next week accompanied by gusty south to southwest winds. Temperatures will peak in the middle 90s to near 100 degrees from Saturday into Monday, which will be near record to record values. In addition, dewpoints in the low to middle 60s combined with
these temperatures will create heat indices, or what it feels like, ranging from 95 to near 105 degrees.
If your plans over the next several days take you outdoors, make sure to drink plenty of water, stay in the shade if possible, and take breaks to rest. Also, watch out for pets and children in locked vehicles. 
Some Iowans refer to the full moon in June as a “strawberry moon” because it’s often bright enough to go out at night and pick berries, but that will NOT be the case this year. While we’ve had several so-called “super moons” in the past year, astronomer David Kriegler says what we’ll see tonight (Friday) is just the opposite, what’s known as a micro-moon or mini-moon. Kriegler says, “Because it’s farther from us, it will be fainter in its brightness when it’s full and it will also be smaller.”
The moon’s orbit this month is much more distant from the earth than usual, so while the moon won’t actually be any smaller, it will appear so to the trained eye. “The mini-moons occur fairly often, about once every year or year and a half,” he says. “You have a full moon which is close to its apogee. It’ll be about 30% smaller and probably 20% dimmer than normal.”
For dedicated sky gazers, this moon may be something of a letdown compared to the spectacular full moons we’ve seen lately. “This particular full moon occurs when the moon is farthest in its orbit,” Kriegler says. “For the last couple of months before this, we’ve had the full moon occurring when the full moon was closest to us, so right now, it’ll be farthest from us.”
Kriegler teaches physics and astronomy at the University of Nebraska-Omaha.
(Radio Iowa)
Today: Mostly sunny. High 88. SW @ 10-20.
Tonight: Partly cloudy. Low 68. SW @ 5-10.
Tomorrow: Mo. Sunny, warm & humid. High 95. SW @ 15-20.
Sunday: P/Cldy, warm & humid. Highs around 95.
Monday: P/Cldy. High 93.
Thursday’s High in Atlantic was 87. Our Low this morning was 59. Last year on this date, the High in Atlantic was 93 and the low was 72. The Record High in Atlantic on this date was 101 in 1985. The Record Low was 38 in 1915.
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