Defiance, OH is down to 37% predicted cloud cover for the 3pm hour on Monday, according to Weather Underground.
Woohoo!! The movement of the weather fronts has changed, and it looks like the shit weather expected later has been delayed – April 8 is no longer predicted overcast and back to “mix of sun and cloud”!
Also, try clicking on the avatars. Some of us are located there.
I think you probably do; I don’t see any way to place a pin.
If you want, you could drop one for me: somewhere in the general vicinity of Stanley, NY.
Annnd extremely high pressure.
It took me a while to figure it out; you have to seach for something, then a box pops up, and you see “add to map”. Which may or may not have been visible to you if you were not logged in.
Anyway, I dropped one for you!
Dunno. I zoomed in pretty far and still saw only the one. Pretty sure you can delete pins (I know I did when testing it).
I’m hoping we get more people adding pins; it’ll be fun to see that band of icons.
A more detailed look at Mt magazine is 47% clouds at 1PM which I guess is technically “mostly sunny”
But as I said I still plan to go to AR unless the forecast is “really bad”.
I will check the day of for other spots, but Mt Magazine is still my plan.
Brian
I still don’t know where I will be going, from my home base in eastern Iowa.
I was talking to someone today who had some friends who made 9 hotel reservations along the path, and whenever they reach their destination, will cancel the other 8.
Thanks!
– I think I did try that, but didn’t see that option. Or maybe I only clicked on a couple of possible menu things (and didn’t see that option).
Huh. I wonder how much of the jammed hotel rooms is due to that factor – and how many will be sitting empty because nobody realized in time that they’re actually available.
Isn’t the hotel going to charge for late cancellation, or possibly even charge the full amount? or are the friends of the acquaintance rich enough to not care?
Just arrived in Austin, TX. It’s a beautiful clear day; it would be a great day for an eclipse. Unfortunately the forecast for Monday still says cloudy. But I only need about 0.002% of the sky to be clear, for about 5 minutes, so I’m still crossing my fingers.
I’ve been surprised at how quickly weather reports have been see-sawing. So I’m glad my plan has been to get to southern Illinois the night before, then drive whichever direction is clearest Monday morning.
At one point, I was heading west to Missouri. Currently, it looks like I’ll be going east to Indiana. And, as of this morning, less far than I had planned (Vincennes or Terre Haute, IN are now better than Carbondale or St. Louis!).
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Cute anecdote: When I was little, we made a reservation at the “Trapp Family Lodge”, in the early days when Maria and some of her kids were there. As we approached, we we were almost run off that narrow mountain road by a blur that looked like a little yellow sports car. When we got to the lodge, we asked if Maria was there.
“Oh, you just missed her, she ran into town.”
“In a little yellow sports car?”
“Yes, did you see her?”
“No, she was going too fast for that.”
“Ahhh, that sounds like Maria.”
Been planning this trip since 2017. Going to fly my little homebuilt airplane down to Texas where I have a reservation at a private airstrip. Will be a fun adventure even if it ends up cloudy on Monday.
That is if I can get over the mountains tomorrow morning. Looking iffy. If I can’t it is a blizzard here for the rest of the weekend. Will have to decide if I call it all off or drive 20+ hours. Sure would rather 7 hours flying, even if it is windy and bumpy.
Cool. Dropped mine in, which was in a big Midwest hole in the map.
Been hoping for a second shot for 7 years now. That eclipse was also on a Monday, but on Saturday night after a huge party on my apartment block I had my car broken into. I later realized that my binocs with the strap and case (I had the strap outside the case for easy carrying) may have resembled a purse to some miscreant peering into the thing in the dark. Also took my console change, nothing else of any real value. Since all window glass shoppes were closed on Sunday I had to get the windows replaced on Monday morning when I would have otherwise been well on my way to my chosen eclipse site (a high school athletic field in N. Georgia), I was forced to miss it.
I did it. Pretty easy.
Fiddle with the map like any other Google map to get your target area where you can see it and zoomed in enough so you can aim accurately.
Click the pin icon in the toolbar just below the search input box. Then click on the map at your chose spot. Bingo, you’ve created a pin!
The pin will appear there with a name like “Point 17”. And a box will pop up with that name in one input box and a larger blank input box below. Click on the “Point 17” words in teh upper box, highlight all the letters & numbers, delete or backspace, and type your DoperName in that box. Click [Save].
If you screw it up, delete the pin and try again.
Excellent instructions!
BTW, I looked at the next few eclipses, thinking that one of these might be a good time to plan a cruise! Though that might be iffy, since cruise ships can change their itinerary at need. The one in 2026 has some options in the Atlantic (or briefly in the Mediterranean, off the southeast coast of Spain). The one in 2027 would require travelling quite close to the North Africa coastline - my sense (could be quite wrong) is that is NOT a prime cruise ship area.
The one in 2028 which seems to cross pretty much all of Australia may be our best bet; I’ve always wanted to go Down Under anyway.
Thanks! I quoted this just to keep it in front of anyone checking this thread. I’ll be driving through many small towns (IL/IN border) until I find a park near a bar and a coffee place.
Here’s to some sunlight, fellow explorers-for-a-day!
Someone just pointed out on another side that Michigan will get about a square mile of totality, for just a few seconds. The extreme southwest corner of Iowa did as well in 2017, in an uninhabited area.
The area in Michigan is in the southeast corner of the state, just over the state line from Toledo, Ohio. The town of Luna Pier is apparently gearing up.
I’m on an iPhone and am having challenges putting a pin on that map. I tried following the instructions from @Mama_Zappa and @LSLGuy , but no joy.
Pretty cool map BTW!
Does anyone have Bonehead 101 instructions for iPhone users?
After my wife’s dialysis in Chinle we left there at 4pm and just pulled in to Alamogordo. $45 for a Motel 6 room that’s pretty okay. Not bad.
I added you - in Ingram, TX, right?
Someone will be in Kerrville, which isn’t that far; didn’t put his/her name on it though.