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This is from Pivotal Weather. They say that the Canadian Emsemble is the most accurate for cloud cover forecasting, so that can be selected from this page. NWS blend of models seems to favor the Canadian too, as the GFS Ensemble has a forecast for more cloud cover than the blend does. I selected New York for my state, but any state or the entire CONUS can be selected on this page. https://www.pivotalweather.com/eclipse2024/?m=gefsens&p=cloudcover_tle_4-mean&r=us_state_ny https://www.pivotalweather.com/eclipse2024/?m=gefsens&p=cloudcover_tle_4-mean&r=us_state_ny

TWC is showing both GFS and Euro cloud forecasts, I didn't even know the Euro had a cloud forecast, I certainly can't find it on pivotalweather.

I hesitate to ask this-- but does this change the forecast for eclipse time on Monday? There's been so many changes in the last few days.

Thanks, were any of those monthly records, Tony?

Great minds-- I was thinking the same thing lol. I just didn't know if he did it on purpose or if it was some sort of Freudian slip lol

picture perfect day and the birds have been singing all day long

Weenies or weeklies lol

I recall December 2005 as one of the more infamous examples of this.... zero snow here and the LGA got 3" and NYC got 6"

too bad, I guess that storm that trended further east at the end was what prevented it from happening.

It's funny, I heard it rain hard for maybe 10 minutes, and then everything went silent.

They're pretty good for Suffolk County and the north shore sometimes back to the city. The screw zone is usually us on the south shore, especially the western part back to central NJ. I think your climate is very similar to my climate, in that I see the same storms screw north central NJ that hurt me here in SW Nassau County.

But he's been right about that so I guess it is lol

and of course snowman19. He was actually more gungho about February and he ended up being right about the one decent snowfall we did get, which was in February.

and also its patterns.

this is the south based block Chris has been talking about

yes-- so warmer nights and also more bugs

Hey Tony, with last night's downpour did either LGA or JFK make it to 10.00" of rain for March? I know NYC couldn't have.

It seems like a semi permanent feature now. The funny thing is, at the coast it's actually giving us a stronger southerly flow in the summer, so less 90 degree days.

Yea, winter 1996-97 was a pretty bad winter for us. The only two storms I remember were both for areas north of here-- December 1996 and April 1997.

I think you guys southwest of us got more snow than we did. Farmartin's page indicates the same thing. 6-8 inches of snow for central NJ and 1-2 inches here. You also got 6-8 inches of snow in April 1996. We did okay on Long Island with that one.

I was just going to ask you this, why are these primary storms with lows going to Buffalo becoming more common now? What happened to our Miller A's the real coastal snowstorms? I hate Miller B's..... even in winter we usually get the backside from them.

If any of you remember the May 10, 1994 eclipse (my first solar eclipse experience ever) this is basically a carbon copy of that one, the only difference is that one was annular and this one is total. We were cloudy during that one too, but the clouds thinned out from time to time (the good thing about there being clouds was there was no need for eclipse glasses!) My memories of that eclipse: 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 for 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 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.

If any of you remember the May 10, 1994 eclipse (my first solar eclipse experience ever) this is basically a carbon copy of that one, the only difference is that one was annular and this one is total. We were cloudy during that one too, but the clouds thinned out from time to time (the good thing about there being clouds was there was no need for eclipse glasses!) My memories of that eclipse: 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 for 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 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.

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