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Weather in northwest Orange County for Sunday, July 31, 2022:
Today:
A chance of showers and thunderstorms, mainly after 11am. Partly sunny, with a high near 84. Light south wind becoming southwest 5 to 10 mph in the afternoon. Chance of precipitation is 30%. New rainfall amounts of less than a tenth of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms.
Tonight:
Partly cloudy, with a low around 66. Southwest wind 5 to 10 mph becoming light south after midnight.
Highs temperatures are expected to remain in the lower 80s through the week.
Courtesy of HistoryNet:
- 1790 The U.S. Patent Office opens.
- 1816 Birth of George Henry Thomas, Union general during the American Civil War.
- 1837 Birth of William Clarke Quantrill, Confederate raider during the American Civil War.
- 1867 Birth of S.S. Kresge, American businessman.
- 1875 Former president Andrew Johnson dies at the age of 66.
- 1882 Belle and Sam Starr are charged with horse stealing in the Indian territory.
- 1971 Apollo 15 astronauts take a drive on the moon in their land rover.
- 1991 The US and the USSR sign a long-range nuclear weapons reduction pact.
- 1999 NASA purposely crashes its Discovery Program’s Lunar Prospector into the moon, ending the agency’s mission to detect frozen water on Earth’s moon.
