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18 minutes ago, NorEastermass128 said:

Crud. The forecast for Rochester just went from mostly sunny to straight up cloudy. Abandon ship?

Play by ear

How's the convection looking? Nothing wrong with an old fashioned sleet bomb. 

2 hours ago, Typhoon Tip said:

at some point the cold is just going to overwhelm the soundings and the edgy models that are IP/cat pawing may bust ... it's like venturing too close to the 'thermal event horizon' and the phase change physics pulls you down.

So cold begets cold, and the storm makes it's own cold. Got it!

3 minutes ago, HoarfrostHubb said:

Sleet sucks.  Give me plain rain or snow

Huh? Sleet is a great pack builder and road disasterer. This time of year, kind of useless except for a day off. 

1 hour ago, mreaves said:

I circled the wrong spot for the airport.  Corrected below.

Thanks. Yeah I was hoping the airport had a big paved area, but it looks like grass. Will have 2 dogs with us, so kind of want an area not right down town.

I'm wondering if random people and parking lots will have like "eclipse parking $10", just get up there early and grill and chill until the event

On 3/29/2024 at 11:55 PM, mreaves said:

I guess I just want to make sure I experience totality. That was my first thought but then I started looking closely and noticed how close I was. 

Think Island Pond/Brighton will be busy? Staying at the camp which is a 2 hour drive to there, but I don't want to deal with 93 and the notch, then a slog up to Colebrook. I have a feeling that's where everyone in MA is heading. 

@wxeyeNH

41 minutes ago, HoarfrostHubb said:

Should be easier to clear up here.  

Are we done for now? White rain adding up to a sloppy inch on grass?

11 minutes ago, dryslot said:

Seems overly aggressive in the monads

1 hour ago, CoastalWx said:

Lots of amped members there. 

But what about the messenger shuffle? We're still pretty far out TBH. 

20 minutes ago, weathafella said:

Pretty disturbing that Brattleboro doesn’t average much more snow vs BOS.

Way better retention tho

27 minutes ago, DavisStraight said:

I could see your area cleaning up, I remember the 97 storm I didn't snow blow, I let the April sun melt it and just plowed through it with my 4 wheel drive truck for two days.

Correctamundo. That is exactly my plan. Already took the plow off the yard donkey and she ain't going back on. 

But hopefully tree and utility line damage far and wide for all to enjoy and remember, with no risk of dangerous cold after the storm. 

1 hour ago, wxeyeNH said:

Since I live in the Plymouth NH area I know the backroads pretty well.  Take 93 up to Plymouth.  Get off and go west on Rt 25.  Head up on the NH side of the Connecticut River.  Then take one of the bridges over to Rt 5 or Rt 91 into the St Johnsbury area.  Then decide how far north or west you want to go to get into a longer and darker eclipse.  This will be a darker eclipse vs 2017 as the path of totality is wider.  Unfortunately for travelers the center line is near Canada. On the edge of totality is interesting however as the Diamond Ring and Bailey's Beads last much longer.  As I say over and over.  A 99% partial and a 100% total is like the difference between kissing someone and marrying them.  Oh, another idea.  There are lots of small businesses in the path of totality.  Pick where you want to go and call one of them in advance.  Ask if you can park in their lot and tell them you are even willing to throw them a few bucks their way.  Or  bring them a small gift, like a couple of 6 packs of beer.  With that in mind they might let you use their bathrooms as potty break as bathrooms and gas  are going to be hard to find.  This is all weather dependant of course. 

That's the route I'm going for sure

31 minutes ago, NW_of_GYX said:

I know it’s been a historically warm winter but it didn’t start that way in November and has ended that way in March/early April…so ya I’m running out of firewood, burned a ton of it this year 

Well, after this storm you'll have plenty of blowdowns around town to cut split stack

There's Tip's blue bomb

10 minutes ago, RUNNAWAYICEBERG said:

It’s a container vessel. The captain is in trouble. 

Looks like power went out twice

Pretty wild ice on top of Wachu today, 2 days later even. Not much at the base lodge but the top was porked, with damage. Heard another hiker say to his buddy "I've seen rime ice, but it's nothing like this, looks like a bunch of giant dildos" lol. 

Don't think we're ever getting out of here.... Road isn't plowed yet

On 3/16/2024 at 4:38 PM, HIPPYVALLEY said:

We’re going to N New Hampshire but I’m already partially resigned to there being cloud cover.   

Supposedly it's still pretty neat with cloud cover, like all of a sudden it gets pitch black  like night. I'll be up in NNH too, but I'm not sure where to go. 

Line was kind of a bust here. Couple gusts and flurries.

Headed up to Swift Diamond Riders on Friday morning, looks like it'll be great riding up there. 

15 hours ago, HIPPYVALLEY said:

Fascinating that we haven't been able to evolve the EV battery more rapidly in a hundred years hey?

https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/electric-cars-history-pictures-1880-1920/

It's more the charging times and cold weather performance. Could be a lot further along if the FF industry didn't try and kill everything over the years. 

4 hours ago, DavisStraight said:

I've been reading about issues with it and a lot of complaints from people who bought one.

Well it's the first one, only will get better over time.  Need some breakthroughs in battery tech to really take off. 

2 hours ago, Damage In Tolland said:

Tippy.. here’s coming at you kid..!Just washed and waxed and shined tires and rims.

Merica’!

Nice! 4th Gen's still holding strong. That pic the other day was of one I saw in Germany (wasn't actually mine), looked like it hadn't moved in years. Below is my actual truck.

But on the weather map, looks like some good showers about to move through. Glad the hike up Little Wachusett was earlier. Not much of a view, but no one else around, which is the goal. 

1 hour ago, tunafish said:

NASA approved glasses vendors:

https://eclipse.aas.org/eye-safety/viewers-filters

I bought some Chinese ones on Amazon. Risky or you think I'll be ok? @AstronomyEnjoyer 

57 minutes ago, Damage In Tolland said:

Nice truck! We RAM.. that’s bad ass 

Love mine too. Keep it cherry, don't you think?