weather

As I’m writing this, we are in the midst of a very busy hurricane season, with multiple tropical storms and hurricanes under our belts. At different points during previous hurricane…

When the weather turns in the late summer, it’s the time of the year when the weather can wreak havoc on airline travel on an almost daily basis. Living in…

Sharon and I have sat down and had a meal at a restaurant a total of two times since the novel coronavirus started its spread throughout Florida. We feel much…

A plane full of passengers experienced an interesting situation not long ago; it started to “rain” inside their plane. So much so that while some of them tried to figure…

After a closure of just shy 4 months, Walt Disney World’s four theme parks are scheduled to have a phased reopening over the course of two days. Magic Kingdom and…

Happy Saturday, travel friends! Here’s a recap of what’s gone on at YMMV this week. From what we’ve written to what others wrote that we really liked and wanted to…

About 100 lightning strikes happen per second on planet Earth. That adds up to billions of strikes per year and yes, several of them happen to planes – about 43,000…

We’d visited San Francisco before but usually in the fall or spring. This year we visited at the end of January, and we got a surprise visit by one of…

According to the National Weather Service, lightning strikes about 25 million times a year and kills an average of 49 people. But how often does it strike planes? Believe it…

As I write this post, Hurricane Dorian is decimating the Bahamas and may or may not cause some major damage to the eastern half of Florida. Because it’s inland, Central…