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The voyage for 1866 has been completed in record time. They went from Charleston to the Norfolk Navy Yard with stops in Port Royal and Beaufort Harbor and they did minimal weather observations only every four hours, making the voyage calculations very quick and easy. You can see a plot of the voyage...

Thank you, it went as well as a 15 hour flight can go. We must have had great winds because we got to YVR an hour ahead of schedule. It meant I could sit in an airport lounge for an extra hour waiting for my 10 minute flight home to YYJ.

It's in the queue after Yantic 1866 and 1869.

Very interesting.

That's the way to do it. Mind you, it's always difficult to tell just what these guys were thinking. When I was on a three month course to be a weather observer in 1971, we were taught how to print numbers and letters so that they were always legible, and so that they were always easily distinguisha...

https://i.cbc.ca/1.7201766.1715481672!/cpImage/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/16x9_780/wildfires-bc-20240511-fort-nelson.jpg The fire is being held 2.5 km from the town. High winds, which were forecast to push the fire into the town yesterday, did not materialize. All but about 50 people from ...

Rain here.

Saving stranded Orcas with whale songs.

How broadcasting the familiar calls of female killer whales saved two males from starvation in an isolated Alaska lagoon.

27 January
Port au Prince, Haiti

An Eclipse of the moon was observed from about 8:30 to 10 P.M.