# USA TSE, total solar eclipse: April 2024 (was "three years away for USA" when started)

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> [@thorny\_locust](#):
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> It is way too soon to trust any forecast. Don’t panic yet.

One year, a truly awful 7-day forecast came out a week before the Big Annual Event™ & someone asked my boss what he was going to do. Boss responded with, “Smile”  
A very confused, “Why would you smile with that forecast?” was answered with

The weather forecasters are _never_ right this far out, so if they’re calling for awful it’ll only get better, which makes me smile.

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