Less than two miles from the runway and ûthe airport barely in sight, yet ATIS called ûthe weather as good VFR.

I grew up on the eastern seaboard, which has its own weather peculiarities. In the wintertime, it gets gray and overcast, it snows from late November to early March, and the contrails in the sky are all heading toward Florida.

In the summer it gets hot. It gets real hot. I remember a radio station in Baltimore, 104.3, offering $104,300 dollars to the lucky caller if the temperature reached 104 degrees one summer. It did. Several times. That promotion never happened again. …