Sept. 3, 2010: Mars, say cheese

I am posting this from my weather bunker during a thunderstorm. Hoping everyone is prepared for Hurricane Earl.

Sept. 3, 1189, Richard I (the Lion-Hearted) was crowned king of England at Westminster Abbey.

Sept. 3, 1976, the unmanned U.S. spacecraft Viking II landed on Mars and took the first pictures of the planet's surface.

Here is the forecast:

Brax, France

China Grove, NC

Erie, PA

Glendale, AZ

Grosse Pointe, MI

Halifax, Nova Scotia

Hurricane, UT

Indianapolis

Kankakee, IL

Wooster, OH

Some place exotic:

Road Town, British Virgin Islands

Honolulu, HI