January was colder than normal here in Britain; it regularly went below -5 °c at night, sometimes it was -7 °c. My heating system was working hard to keep me and my family warm. All the parts of the heating conspired to keep us at 22°c, I take it for granted every day until I open the front door and feel the chill.
Donald Trump became president in the middle of January and he went straight to work, he was putting his policies into action. He didn't waste any time.
I noticed in the news that bush fires were breaking out in the American state of California, large parts of Los Angeles were destroyed. The bush fires devastated a large part of America. I felt like the fires weren't wild, like they were caused by arson because they caught people setting off some of the fires.
In the middle of the month I noticed most of the planets were clearly visible in the sky during dawn; this is very unusual for me. I could clearly see Mars, Venus, Saturn and Jupiter. Some people said they could see Mercury as well. You need a telescope to see Neptune because it is so far away but i'm sure it was out there on the horizon with the other planets. I think Uranus is also very difficult to see, it appears as a very faint star when it is closest to us, I think it needs a telescope to be seen most of the time.
Towards the end of the Month we had a large storm here in Britain called Erowin, it was very strong and able to cause winds of 100 mph to occur in parts of northern Ireland and Scotland. Some trees and buildings were toppled over unfortunately.
Israel and Gaza negotiated a ceasefire, they returned all the Hamas prisoners in exchange for some of their hostages. It's a bad deal in my view but it proves that Israel doesn't want war. They were very flexible with their own stipulations. If Hamas fires missiles at Israel again, we can be certain they're the ones at fault.
Then during the last week of the month, there were a few air crashes. A small passenger jet collided with a black hawk helicopter near Washington airport. All people involved in the crash were killed. Later a small plane dropped out of the sky over Philadelphia.
