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The trip should be a much shorter one in 2024! I just hope the weather holds. I don't care if the entire winter is a torch as long as it's clear on April 8th!

To be fair, it's more than just totality. The 20 min before and after totality are great too.

True that, Jer. You should come to Upstate NY for the 2024 eclipse! I wonder if there is software somewhere that shows when the next total solar eclipse will be and when the last one was. (Like let's say if I click on a random small town it will show me those dates.)

Looks like you captured a bit of the solar prominences that were occuring!

Safety first, but I've looked at a few eclipses with just a pair of sunglasses. I find the really dark view of eclipse glasses annoying. I have bad vision anyway (20/80 in one eye and 20/35 in the other since grade school) and looking at the sun didn't make it any worse. It's not like acid getting into your eyes lol.

Hey question, I didn't get any eclipse glasses but I have solar filters, I can use them instead right? I have a 102mm and a 70mm solar filter I use with my telescopes and cameras.

I'll be driving up I-81 from around the Scranton area, how long would it take for me to get up there? Should I budget around 4 hours?

Why is Carbondale so popular? I never even heard of that town before this eclipse. Is it because it's going to be in a great spot for both this and the 2024 eclipse?

Oh, no and this is your first total solar eclipse too I take it? I haven't seen one yet either. How is climatology for Watertown on 4/8/2024? I don't know anything about the local climate in that area but I'm planning to be there (hopefully.)

Just to go Nashville.

Yes it is! and racking my brain the ideal period I've experienced that I can come up with was December 2009 to October 2011.

my favorite years are where you get dry heat in the summer, tropical threats in the fall, and big snows in the winter

Wow what was the cause of the big extended drought 1963-66? I remember we had a big drought in the 80s too, but not on that scale.

Other thing about 2010 was lots of 95+ days (including even in September!) At JFK, 2010 had 32 90+ days, 11 95+ days and 3 100+ days. I think in 1966 they had 4 100+ days.

What about 1983, didn't we have some big late season heat that year in August and September too, Unc?

Unc was Summer 2010 as dry as Summer 1966? 1966 was an extremely dry summer (as was all of 1965.) Heat peaked at 104 in July 1966 at JFK (hottest temp they've ever recorded), I think they also hit 101 in June? LGA hit 107 in July!

It's been a very ridge-west trough-east summer that's for sure. Did you see the tweet out of the NWS about Death Valley having its hottest month on record? Death Valley had an average July temp of 107.4, which beat 107.2 from July 1917 (exactly 100 years ago!) That's the average of all the highs and the lows! http://thebull1047.iheart.com/content/2017-08-04-death-valley-just-registered-a-brutal-heat-milestone/ http://mix1047.iheart.com/content/2017-08-04-death-valley-just-registered-a-brutal-heat-milestone/ It's probably been a hot summer where you are, but nothing like this: California's Death Valley registered an average temperature of 107.4 degrees for the month of July, per the National Weather Service. The previous record, set in 1917, was 107.2 degrees. NBC News Radio The news you want, when you want it It's not only a record for Death Valley: "It should be noted that this is the hottest average monthly temperature ever measured in the US, or, for that matter, anywhere in the Western Hemisphere," a climatologist tells the Washington Post. Read the full story on Newser.com https://twitter.com/DeathValleyNPS/status/892872073025945601 https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/capital-weather-gang/wp/2017/08/03/death-valley-just-experienced-the-hottest-month-ever-recorded-in-the-u-s/?utm_term=.80f9315c21a7#comments http://www.newser.com/story/246745/death-valley-just-had-hottest-month-in-western-hemisphere.html?utm_source=part&utm_medium=iHeartRadio&utm_campaign=rss_main The only place that I could find that comes close to that in average temp is a town called Reggane in the Sahara Desert whose avg July temp (long term mean) is almost 104 degrees! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reggane#Climate Climate[edit] Reggane has a hot desert climate (Köppen climate classification BWh), with long, extremely hot summers and short, very warm winters. The climate is torrid and almost rainless. Daytime temperatures are known to consistently approach 50 °C (122 °F) in summer and nighttime temperatures routinely remain above 30 °C (86 °F). Average annual rainfall is extremely low, with only 10 mm (0.39 in). The sky is always clear throughout the year and the sunshine reigns supreme. The area in the heart of the Algerian Desert bounded by Adrar - Reggane - In Salah is nicknamed the "triangle of fire" by local inhabitants due to the extreme heat that bakes the region from May to September.[4] Reggane is obviously among the hottest spots worldwide. But places like that in Sahara desert have exceptional average temps, however their records are not as extreme. I found another city, called Ahvaz, which is more like Death Valley in its extreme temps (but average temps are under 100.) It's also the most highly polluted city in the world- ugh. Climate[edit] Ahvaz has a desert climate (Köppen climate classification BWh) with long, very hot summers and mild, short winters. Ahvaz is consistently one of the hottest cities on the planet during the summer, with summer temperatures regularly at least 45 degrees Celsius, sometimes exceeding 50 degrees Celsius[11] with many sandstorms and duststorms common during the summer period. However, in winters, the minimum temperature can fall to around +5 degrees Celsius. Winters in Ahvaz have no snow. The average annual rainfall is around 230 mm.Recently on June 29 the temperature reached 54 degrees Celsius which is the world's highest june temperature , also the dew point peaked 23 degrees Celsius which is unusually humid unlike the usual dry heat. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahvaz#Climate

That reminds me of how we got 2" of snow in late October 2011 while LGA got zilch lol. Ditto for the November 2012 snowstorm post Sandy- we had like 8" here, LGA got very little.

My prediction is for LGA to get to 20, NYC to 15 and for JFK and ISP to reach 10. A solidly average summer.

2010 was our hottest summer on record and had the most 90 degree days, I don't care what the faux-Central Park sensors have to say about it. All the other locations so blew previous records out of the water that NYC 90+ temps for 2010 must be discounted.

Somehow JFK hit 90 in October 2007

Julian, since the effect is one of movement perhaps to capture this it is best to shoot a video rather than a still. Do you plan to do both videos and stills with your equipment to get the full effects?

Thanks, this is some great advice! Which was the best eclipse you saw? I have a nice old pair of 10x50's that I use for widefield stargazing that I want to use for this. I have different sized nylon solar filters I can use on camera lenses, binoculars or small telescopes too in case it becomes a necessity. What's the maximum length totality can be? I think I read somewhere that 7 minutes is the max. I wonder if the 2024 eclipse will be like this too? I found this about temps: http://www.foxnews.com/science/2017/06/22/brrr-how-much-can-temperatures-drop-during-total-solar-eclipse.html

Here it is https://eclipse2017.nasa.gov/exploring-shadow-bands Exploring Shadow Bands These mysterious bands of shadow race across the landscape in the seconds before totality. Scientists still don’t fully understand what they are. You can study them yourselves by taking measurements and photographs and come up with your own hypothesis. Shadow bands are thin wavy lines of alternating light and dark that can be seen moving and undulating in parallel on plain-coloured surfaces immediately before and after a total solar eclipse. Shadow bands have been noted throughout history. In the 9th century CE, shadow bands during a total solar eclipse are described for the first time-in the Völuspá, part of the old Icelandic poetic edda. Hermann Goldschmidt of Germany notes shadow bands in 1820 visible just before and after totality at some eclipses. George B. Airy, the English astronomer royal, saw his first total eclipse of the sun in 1842. He recalled shadow bands as one of the highlights: "As the totality approached, a strange fluctuation of light was seen upon the walls and the ground, so striking that in some places children ran after it and tried to catch it with their hands"

Wow, that's amazing! I wanted to ask a question of those who have seen a total solar eclipse. Something I read about in The Farmers Almanac that stated that you have to see this in person, it can't be photographed. They mentioned that during totality the air shimmers the way water does when you look down into a swimming pool on a sunny day. Is this true? And why can't this effect be photographed? And can you see stars during the day time during totality? And the wind picks up, animals/birds go silent, and there is a noticeable drop in temperature.