LibertyBell

I hope we're alive for it. I have a lot of family in Orlando, I could visit them. Orlando has totality for over 6 minutes!

That's like the rain/snow line staying 5 miles south of you during a 30" snowstorm!

well before that NASA will be creating artificial solar eclipses, I'm sure. ESA is working on that already

how do you know it wasn't 100%? There is still a little imprecision with these calculations

what are those trails around the sun? airplane contrails?

ended up going to Watertown, because Syracuse was too iffy.

why not Burlington?

Why didn't Amtrak start running extra trains? It would have alleviated a lot of the traffic. They should have been running a train every hour today like the LIRR does. Divert them from other lines if need be. Today should have been declared a national holiday, shut everything else down and divert all mass transportation to areas of totality.

where is this Ed?

in Plattsburgh? Wow, what's the temperature there right now?

Nice pictures, be sure to take pictures of the different stages of the eclipse, Lake George to Lake Champlain may be in high clouds but it doesn't mean you won't see totality.

Much better than Syracuse

wow-- nevermind lol I was talking about the eclipse in 2079 being at 6:04 AM

Interesting about Pangaea. I wonder if there are old dinosaur bones buried deep under the Tristate area lol

How far from Watertown?

it's going to be at 6:04 in the morning on May 1, it's 10 min after sunrise. you don't work at 6 AM do you?

wow everyone's headed east.

https://www.pivotalweather.com/eclipse2024/?m=cmceens&p=cloudcover_labeled&r=us_state_ny Try to get to under 40% cloud coverage.

If in NY your best bet is Lake Placid. I wouldn't depend on holes in the clouds for Syracuse or points west of there.

I think it's really important to analyze those years 1. 1966 had our hottest summer on record up to that point with a record number of 100 degree days too. 2. 1983 set the new record for highest number of 90 degree days to that point (at both NYC and JFK.) 3. 1993 which I'll also reference only had 1 90 degree day in that period (and it was in May) and tied the new record of most 90 degree days set in 1991 (which broke the record of 1983). 4. as 1983 as shown, late season heat can often substitute for early season heat-- check out the number of 90 degree days 1983 had in September!

1993 had only 1 and it was in May and it was a record summer for 90 degree days, this early season thing may not mean much.

if tomorrow is just like this then we're golden for the eclipse!

1993 had 1 90 degree day in May so it really doesn't take a big early season heatwave to have a record hot summer.

What did we have in 1980? I know that was a very hot summer, but I thought the heat began in late June.

I've always wanted to go back and experience that winter, that was the winter I thought about during the 80s snow drought. Also an amazing extended winter February and March were absolutely phenomenal. The winter that reminds me the most of that one is 1995-96