LibertyBell

this was back in May 1994 and here in New York the sun was about 90% covered and I was able to look at it through 10x50 binoculars without hurting my eyes because the cloud cover was rather dense at 1:30 in the afternoon and the sun was just barely visible through them as a small ring around a dark moon. I'll never forget that experience! I believe that was an annular eclipse but the annularity happened north of here.

So I take it these eclipses occur in 30 year cycles? This is my first solar eclipse memory -- from May 10, 1994. Does this eclipse path look familiar to anyone? It was supposed to be raining and overcast all day but it stopped raining early and it stayed overcast, but because of the movement of the clouds, the clouds thinned out a little from time to time and it happened just in time for peak eclipse! Does this eclipse path for May 10, 1994 look familiar to you? And just like I remembered it, it reached peak eclipse here just after 1 PM (1:35 PM to be exact.) Looks like that one was 89% here just like this one will be (with that one you had to travel north to Albany to see annularity and for this one it's Syracuse to see totality.) Is there a 30 year cycle for eclipses? It's amazing how wide a range this annular had, from Mexico to Texas to New York all the way across the Atlantic to Morocco and to Algeria! https://www.timeanddate.com/eclipse/solar/1994-may-10

I suggested this analog a few days ago, this was another north of NYC snow event in a season when we saw very little snow.

It'll likely be a big tropical season for the gulf and florida, like these megaseasons usually are.

To be fair, it's not that bad to get snow this time of year. A killing freeze is MUCH WORSE. I'd be curious to see if the stats are the same as the last time I looked, but when I last looked any kind of accumulation here in April happens once every three years. Once every decade or so we get a decent April snowstorm (4 inches or more.)

thats going to be the end of the wet pattern

It's going to be cutting it close for the eclipse. I noticed the Euro is much cloudier for the entire path of totality (including up here in the NE) than the GFS is.

I noticed the Euro has much more cloudiness along the path of totality including up here in the northeast.

high winds and lots of coastal flooding too

it sounds like a repeat of those weird 1950s years Take a look at some of those years with very hot summers and lots of east coast tropical activity. In the 90s and afterwards, usually a strong WAR has meant TCs get steered to Florida or the GOM-- you think it will be more like the 1950s rather than the 1990s and since then?

Probably too late for coastal New England too, unless you're up in Maine.

The best thing about a big storm in this time period is that things will clear out just in time for the eclipse. All signs point to ridge building and nice warm sunny weather the following week for the northeast.

That's exactly what I said yesterday lol

Yea, this time of year is the hardest to predict. It's like trying to predict where a rain/snow line will be lol.

Man, your description really makes me wish eclipses happened more often. I like this idea by the ESA of artificially creating eclipses using satellites they will be launching later this year. I know nature is always best, but if humans can make them happen more often using satellites, it should be done. Such an awe inspiring experience!

I'm noticing the warmer ocean is really affecting Logan, while locations to the west and northwest of there have much higher snowfall totals.

I just looked too, and there isn't even one coming back down after the eclipse on the same day lol. So anyone who goes there by train will have to stay there overnight. By the way, what travel site do you use to check and what city did you see it was still available for?

Maybe this is why every time we have had a very rainy March, it has always been followed by a very hot summer.

I wonder if there was any snow the day before that low or on that day?

that's right-- I remember it, but it was mostly sleet here lol

that low of 12 in 1923 is pretty amazing! how come it's not on the lowest max list-- did it get that warm that day that it wasn't among the coldest April highs?

I think it was in the teens in Newark in 1982. Hey Chris, can you go back to 1995, didn't we have an arctic shot in April that year with clear skies? The high was around 37 and the low was around 23 (average mid January temps), and it was windy and sunny. Maybe the temps would have stayed in the 20s that day if we had snow that day. The other cold April day I remember was in 2016 when we had temps in the 30s with snow to our east near Cape Cod. Very windy that day too. In 2003 we had three straight days in the 30s after the snowstorm. I think we warmed up quickly in 1996 and 2018 after those snowstorms.

-NAO can only bring that kind of cold here if that kind of cold is around to be brought here.... I'd much rather compare it to more recent April snow events. April 1996, April 1997, April 2003 and April 2018.

I wonder when's the last time we saw cold like that even in March? 1993?

why do you want brutally cold air anyway? it's mostly cold and dry!