FIPS DAILY ALMANAC: Thursday, April 12, 2012
J. Charles | Thursday, April 12, 2012 at 12:00AM 
photo by Deepti Sahrawat
Rise and shine FIPSters, and welcome to your day! In judicial news, the guv'ment is suing Apple over e-book pricing, and in murderous New Yorkers news, am I the only one who thinks "Slay-ma" is the like, the worst of the worst?
ON THIS DAY IN BK HISTORY (1900):
On this day in 1900 Brooklynites were expecting to find hail and sleet on the ground in the early morning hours. Snow in April is not something totally out of the ordinary. The article also described an unusually warm March with no snow, kinda' like ours has been this year. But here's the part of the article that made me take pause: "It was a reminder of the olden days when the current bushes, besides being laden with clusters of their little red berries, were buried under 6 inches of snow on the Fourth of July." Say what?! Fourth of July? Snow? Shit really is warming up on this planet. And here I am thinking, remember when we used to wear coats in March? If only "the weather profit" could tell us how it's going to be.
[FROM THE BROOKLYN DAILY EAGLE ARCHIVES]
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