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9 hours ago, weathafella said:

I well remember that event.  In Boston, we had nearly 97% yet it didn't get that dark.  That's when I knew I had to get to totality.  Or if I were lucky I could have flown my "Lear jet to Nova Scotia to see the total eclipse of the sun"

I was in MA, in kindergarten at the time. Our teachers had pinhole projectors for it, and I do remember being underwhelmed, though a little apprehensive/scared before it happened. Then it was kind of like "When's the eclipse coming?" "It's over." "what???"

Will be in Hastings, NE, hopefully in between shortwaves. Anyone from here targeting NE?

The whole dang Denver metro area is COMPLETELY out of eclipse glasses and the ones I ordered from Amazon last week never came. Maybe some places along our trip route might have some, but feeling a bit out of luck there at this time. Everyplace I've tried has just sold out when I get there. Wish I could make some- a longtime ago I used to use 35mm film...

Booked perhaps the only room under $500 left within a couple hours of totality in central Nebraska... lucky that we'll be taking a family trip to Chicago at the time anyway, and a relatively small detour. There is NEVER traffic around where we're staying, but I expect there will be considerable traffic anyway. We'll have about 80 miles to drive the morning of, to get to a good place (targeting Hastings., will stay away from I-80 till it's done). Think I'll go find the Nebraska DeLorme atlas or something in case back roads are needed. Have not tornado chased, but I imagine it will be a similar kind of thing (though the only danger will be from the other cars!!)

Looked like Omaha still had a few reasonable rooms left a couple days ago.  More traffic issues there for sure.

Thinking the farther north and west you are, the less likely to encounter clouds and/or haze to decrease the drama. We'll be taking my daughter to college in OH and driving either from or to CO, so either I-80 in NE or I-70 in MO (totality covers its ENTIRE LENGTH in MO) are a good bet. It'll be around 1 PM CT... are PM thunderstorms a good bet in MO? NE tends to dry out a lot in August.

This is my 1st post here on Americanwx forums.   Very boring bland weather forecast for Santa Maria, California

Welcome! I would like some fog, please. Getting drier and hotter each day.

Any thoughts on the start of the SW monsoon? Last year it was a bit of a "nonsoon". Us in the big squarish states could use some more moisture, soon.

That one would be a gutter ball. I don't think I've seen one at quite that low a latitude. Need some bumpers on the lanes.

Why does it look to me like the ridge wants to build right back on top of it?

I think my blood pressure just went down 15 points when I saw that picture. Incredible. I want to go have lunch on that rock.

I was on a small commercial flight about 30 miles north of Joplin when everything was going down last evening... worst turbulence I've ever experienced, though it was probably only high-end moderate/low-end severe. The flight attendants were starting to look at each other and stuff was starting to bounce around, then we were through it. My thoughts and prayers go out to everyone there... terrible.