LibertyBell

The best way I've seen this explained is that air is a fluid like water so a good analogy is a swimming pool full of water. When the sun shines on this pool you can see little shadows shimmering in the water even when there's no wind. These are what shadow bands are like. My question is why do we need a total eclipse to see this effect? Why don't we see it all the time, just like we do in a swimming pool?

This means a hotter summer too, and probably strong westerly flow at our latitude

Because "hot days" are defined by the number of times it hits 90 degrees. How hot a summer is, is tangibly defined that way. I'm done with the humidity driven overnight lows. Higher lows come from humidity, while actual heat determines how many times we hit 90 degrees.

For a short time I think, but 2002 was one of our hottest summers on record, especially here on the south shore. The three hottest summers here were 1983, 2002 and 2010.

That's great, I just had to double down on my benadryl lol. The more it rains the worse my allergies get.

I always think that anyone who complains about heat is overweight. When you weigh 160 pounds heat doesn't bother you. The more you weigh the more you sweat. Time to stop consuming processed food and soda (including diet soda) and all that junk.

Hopefully that ridge doesn't go away after the 20th. In my experience once we hit 85, we usually don't go back to a cool pattern anymore

Sounds like a 1950s type summer

As long as you got at least 100 miles north or east of Syracuse you were in good shape. Watertown only had some high thin cirrus clouds!

That's in August 2027! Also 0% possibility of clouds in the desert! Luxor Egypt will be the place to be with over 6 minutes of totality!

This is the perfect description-- and you know what else it reminds me of (minus the corona of course).... the black lunar eclipse of December 1982. Because El Chichon had just erupted a few months prior, this was the darkest lunar eclipse ever seen. The moon looked like a black hole in the sky, all the larger because the eclipse reached totality two hours before sunrise. It was darker than the surrounding sky and the blackest black I had ever seen. In contrast to the July 1982 total lunar eclipse which was one of the brightest ever seen where the moon was a bright orange color.

Venus on one side and Jupiter on the other side.

That's natural because all life on earth is adjusted to sun as our "white balance" but it's interesting that G type stars like the sun are considered yellow on the H-R diagram. It's also interesting how life on planets that orbit other stars would see different colors-- for life on a planet that orbits a red star for example, that red star would be "white". Any plants on such a planet would be a different color too-- likely purple. On earth, green maximizes the energy available from photosynthesis while on a planet that orbits a red star, purple would be most efficient in converting that sun's light into energy.

Imagine if the moon actually had rings like Saturn does, you'd experience multiple flashes before the real eclipse.

It's why I liked the idea of making it a national holiday

I see that here a lot living near JFK airport, it's the oddest feeling when an airplane eclipses the sun it creates a "flash shadow" that confuses me for a second until I realize what happened.

I figured you have to be in space to know what the sun really looks like. Because here colors are refracted and scattered by earth's atmosphere.

Did you forget about mid March lol?

I've always wondered if these colors are real, or the colors we see with our eyes and with cameras are real. In pictures it always looks pink and the sun is yellowish. Here, everything looks red.

I wonder what the corona looked like from there

I think that 2045 one in Miami is a much better bet than the 2079 in NYC-- note how early in the morning that one is.... 10 minutes after sunrise, you'd have to be near a place that had a body of water to the east to see it. Since Miami is the "sixth borough of New York City" the one in 2045 should count as a NYC eclipse.

Yeah it's why I want to know what camera and lens he used lol

I wonder if the corona was visible from there with all those clouds around?

Looks like they weren't so cloudy after all