Weatherday: A long wrong way

Starting cloudy and staying that way mostly through the day. A little rain by late evening.

Warm and humid, in light southwesterly breeze. Highest forecast temperature locally 17deg.

On this day in 1938, aviator Douglas Corrigan took off from Floyd Bennet Field in Brooklyn NYC with a flight plan to California. He landed 28 hours later at Baldonnel Aerodrome in County Dublin, claiming he had mistakenly flown the wrong way.

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