The US reported +1,260 new coronavirus deaths yesterday, bringing the total to 251,256. The 7-day moving average rose to 1,142 per day.
The US had +157,253 new confirmed COVID-19 cases yesterday, bringing the total to over 11.2 million. The 7-day moving average rose to over 147,000 per day.
There are now over 4 million active cases in the US.
38 US states had over 1,000 new cases yesterday, of which 11 had over 5,000. Illinois led the pack with over 11,000 new cases, followed by Texas, Minnesota, and Indiana with over 8,000 each.
Yesterday, Illinois tied its record number of deaths (197) from May 13th.
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1. The rainclouds have really broken up over Spain over the past 24 hours, leaving wonderful flying weather for the next few legs of my Microsoft Flight Simulator journey.
2. Late last night (dawn, European time) I prepared to depart Malaga, bound for Granada.
3. A few hours before, I had flown into Malaga at night, under somewhat foggy conditions.
The US reported +648 new coronavirus deaths today, bringing the total to 251,901. The 7-day moving average rose to 1,156 per day.
The US had +139,084 new confirmed cases of COVID-19 today, bringing the total to over 11.3 million. The 7-day moving average rose to over 152,000 per day.
The number of active cases in the US is now over 4.1 million.
1. The rainclouds have shifted north, leaving some nice flying weather over southern Spain today - both in real life, and in Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020.
2. Looking like a promising day in Seville, Spain for the next leg of my journey, to Cordoba.
3. Taking off from Seville, in the late afternoon.
But if there's one single place in the world that was most tense, it was the dirt road to the top of the Andes, between Chile and Argentina. You can check out the full thread here. I still have nightmares.
1. Finally, after about a 24 hour wait, the weather has cleared up just a little at Tetouan, Morocco, enough for me to make my flight across the Straits to Gibraltar.
2. I always have to remind people, but yes, this is Microsoft Flight Simulator on my PC, not real life. But the weather is set to real life, real-time weather, so it's going to correspond to actual reports you can find online.
3. Some specks of drizzle on my windscreen as I taxi to the runway at Tetouan, Morocco.