Happy hump day, all! Today’s weather: The day is forecast to be windy and cooler after severe weather struck overnight, including a tornado in Rockdale County.
Today’s highs in the mid-60s will probably have already been reached when you read this and will be followed by falling temperatures into the 50s.
It’s the middle of the week, and the news is bountiful — from Georgia Tech students looking ahead to Monday’s eclipse to Nike releasing a new sneaker with an Atlanta influence to the FBI releasing more information about the man who is accused of breaching the agency’s gates in Chamblee.
One update from Monday, Rosanne Cash has rescheduled her concert at the Buckhead Theatre for November. The change was not made available to the AJC until after the newsletter went out.
Now, let’s get to it.
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A SOLAR ECLIPSE, BUSES AND WHIPPED CREAM
Look! Up in the sky!
OK, if you’re planning to do this for Monday’s solar eclipse, be sure to wear protective glasses for the event. Safety first! (This has been your AJC public service announcement.)
This may make you jealous, but a group from Georgia Tech’s School of Physics has chartered a 55-seat bus to travel to Crab Orchard National Wildlife Refuge in southern Illinois. There, participants will get the best seat in the house for the eclipse in its totality. (The eclipse is expected to only be partial in metro Atlanta)
Not to be outdone, the school’s astronomy club is taking an additional 55 participants on another bus to a campground near Eminence, Missouri. Those who don’t fit on either bus are carpooling or making alternate plans.
Students and faculty tell AJC staff writer Vanessa McCray this is a big deal. The astronomy club expects its costs to be roughly $6,000-$7,000, so they increased dues, sold T-shirts and held bake sales to raise funds. They even put together a fundraiser where club leaders willingly got smacked in the face with a paper plate full of whipped cream on “Pi Day,” March 14. Ah, science!
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