Checking the forecast

Wow! The days have been absolutely flying, only 4 more sleeps before we head to the east.

I'm always warm enough but I figured maybe Denise might be interested in a preview of the weather. When I told her the forecast for Friday in St. John's, Newfoundland shows a low of 10 and a high of 18 degrees (Celsius) she said that's about what she expected. (For anyone who doesn't speak Celsius, that's a low of 50 and a high of 64 on the Fahrenheit scale.) That's a bit cooler than our current temperatures here, maybe an early preview of our September weather. The temperature difference might be because Newfoundland is a lot further north than Massachusetts. Five degrees of latitude separate Boston and St. John's, and a degree of latitude is 69 miles. That means that we'll be starting our wanders 345 miles further north than where we live - and we'll be heading north from St. John's too.

I already changed Denise's watch for her. She wears a watch that can switch between two times so I flipped the hidden time to Newfoundland time, an hour and a half later than our time at home. That's a funny time zone, isn't it?

Map courtesy of the Google Maps Distance Calculator at Daft Logic
Can you see the pink lines on the map? We're flying a little backwards to start with, from Boston to Newark. Then we'll be heading to the north and east, way out over the ocean!

--- Rover