Flight 1549

Posted on by Ian C.

Sometimes, news takes over from what’s happening locally …
January 15 - Flight 1549.jpg
(picture from L.A.Times)

It’s seems incredible, but reports say that all passengers and crew were safely removed from this plane that was forced to land in the Hudson river near New York City … if you’ve got to go down in water, choose a place with lots of ferries and other boat traffic to assist you! There’s 150 very lucky people, and some skilled pilots …

(head over to here to see lots more eye-witness photos)
(interesting details & background here)

Changing temperatures

Posted on by Ian C.

My iPhone has a neat weather capability, which can show the weather for the next few days from multiple places – here I’ve compared our weather here for the next few days in Gloucester, North East USA, with that back in Old England, in Newcastle:
January 14 - Changing Temperatures.jpg

This gives a pretty typical image of weather differences … here in Gloucester, the temperature varies quite dramatically over the course of a few days; what it doesn’t show is that when we went to bed last night, the temperature was close to 40! This morning it was down to 20f (a cold -7c), it’s lower now, and it’s going to be much lower tonight and tomorrow night (0f is -18c!), so in the course of a couple of days, we’ve got a 40f swing.
Meanwhile in Old England, the temperature is almost the same day to day, with very little variation day to night either.

The up side to all this cold air over here, is we get lots more beautiful looking sunshine – just be sure to put lots of clothes on!