Ditto here, on all parts of that. Tomorrow’s just supposed to add some snow to the rain; but it’s supposed to be over by Sunday. The forecast for Sunday clear through Tuesday is currently “mostly sunny.”
Yeah, I won’t be trying to get to the centerline, due at least as much to probable traffic and crowds as to greater distance. I’ve got a friend with a farm that’ll get over two minutes; she’s invited us there, and we’ll settle for that. Usually it would be about 40 minutes to get there. How long it’ll take Monday I’ve no idea – we can do most of it on back roads, but we’ll need to cross and/or be on main roads at some points.
The wine & cheese may still be on because … why not? … but I’ve pretty much given up on seeing the eclipse. There seems to be another storm system moving in just after the current one, with just a one-day window of sunny skies in between, which is predicted for Sunday, April 7.
I’m pretty sure that I predicted somewhere upthread long ago that Mother Nature would provide sunny cloudless skies the day before the eclipse just to tease me, and then cloud over the actual day of the event. And such is the current forecast.
The only hope is that the timing of these various weather fronts changes. Right at the moment, in what should be glorious springtime – and should be enhanced even further by global warming – we’re in the middle of a goddam snowstorm! I thought I heard thunder earlier but no, it was street plows going by!
Accuweather: A morning shower in spots; otherwise, clouds breaking for some sun; the temperature can drop several degrees during the eclipse. 46% chance rain.
Weather Underground: Partly cloudy, 24% chance. Drop in the afternoon down to 15% as the clouds disperse.
Weather Channel: PC, 24% chance.
National Weather Service remains the most downcast, showing the grey sheets it always does when it predicts rain, 40%.
That’s my take, too. Right now it’s data, and fuzzy data at that. So I’m not overly worried about the forecasts now. Starting Friday-Saturday the forecasts will be more accurate, and if I have to pivot I’ll start planning that.
I’m just north of Indianapolis. Very overcast now, Monday looks iffy but too soon to tell. Still, we get a good view right out my daughter’s front door, and I’m getting to see the grandkids no matter what the clouds do, so it’s a win. At least it will be reasonably warm.
This morning is the first different weather since I arrived in Mazatlán on Tuesday. The day dawned mostly foggy & 52F. Now an hour later the fog has 99% burned off, there’s a typical Pacific marine layer of clouds a few miles offshore, and about 10% coverage of cirrus. Wind is nil. Should top out at 78F today.
The Monday forecast is back to “sun through high clouds”. Hmm.
Thank you, everyone, for including your eclipse-viewing location!! It makes following everyone’s comments so much easier. After all, the path of the eclipse over land goes from the west coast of Mexico to Newfoundland, so we are talking about a vast area with widely varying and disparate weather forecasts.
Btw, sorry if I missed anyone, but thanks to everyone regardless.
As for me, the predicted weather in Texas for Monday has not really changed since earlier in the week, with a marginal improvement only in the north part of the state.
Currently, Kerrville, TX (my original planned viewing location) is at 75% predicted cloud cover. Uvalde to the southwest is also at 75%. Junction, TX to the west is at 72%. Waco is at 66%, and Dallas is at 56% predicted cloud cover.
Meanwhile, Burlington, VT has improved to 10% predicted cloud cover!
So right now it looks like I will likely be implementing my last-minute backup plan and driving north to Vermont instead of flying to Texas this weekend.
My journey starts today. I live in the middle of Vancouver Island. This afternoon I’ll be driving a couple of hours away to stay overnight at my cousin’s then catch my flight to Calgary tomorrow morning. I picked the cheapest flight I could so I’m taking a bit of a circuitous route Victoria-Calgary-Atlanta-San Antonio.
Wunderground is stating ‘partly cloudy’ while the gubmint is stating ‘partly sunny’ for western NY (≈ 1 hr SE of Buffalo). While both may be accurate (if it’s partly one then it’s partly the other), I’m going with the NWS cause that just sound better.
There’s actually lots of different climate zones inside of a submarine! Dry and warm in the electronic spaces up forward; hot, loud, and humid between the main engines in the engine room; cool and damp in the engine room lower level bilge area; deafeningly loud and breezy in the fan room; cool, quiet, and dark in the berthing areas.
The weather outside is pretty much uniformly the same, though: cold, dark, and wet. Sometimes you hear sea life though the hydrophones, though, like snapping shrimp.
For fun, I created what I THINK is a map that anyone with the link can edit - to drop a pin showing roughly where you’ll be on Monday. This is currently displaying as a big blank area on my browser when I look at this post, so I added a link in the text, also.
Search for your planned location (or something near it), then “add to map”.
You may need to be logged into a Google account to do so. I don’t THINK it shows who dropped the pin (I checked in another browser, with a different login, and nothing was obvious). I’m gonna try to edit the style so the pins are more obvious.
Hah - I changed my own icon to be yellow, with a sun icon; then I added one for Mazatlan; it did not copy over that icon info, so I edited that one also.
