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Watching the live news from San Juan. Winds are quite light. Are they in the eye area? I'm guessing the wind will come back ripping from the south?

Recon about to go through the eye again...

Recon 919.6mb?

With the eye looking so good on infrared Im surprised the vis. shows a low cloud cover. We will know very shortly what's going on, recon getting close...

Roseau the capitol of Dominica is on the SW part of the island. Sure looks like a beautiful town. Looks like a roaring west wind with a large storm surge that will come in as the eye passes just northeast. Dominica is a tropical paradise. Forests will be basically gone tomorrow..

Maria's small eye is amazing. The pressure has to be so much lower than the last recon. When is the next plane due in? The eye is so small that the exact path of the eyewall will be crucial. The 5pm track over PR is also the worst possible. Puts San Juan in the right front quad with screaming winds from the east right off the ocean. Most of the 3 million people live in the northeast part of the island....

Hebert... Jeez never caught that too. I'm so lame thanks

As a total side note when Gmail started I took out the name herbertsbox. So my email address is [email protected] After signing up I realized it should be herbertbox not herbertsbox. People always ask me what herbertsbox means. No one knows but a true tropcial weenie like me... Okay, back to Maria....

Well for the moment I don't see anything so it was fleeing or maybe it will start back up again but bed time for me.

Yes, the 03 event was like "wow what is going on" . Spectacular. Going to drive up to the hill one more time right now...just to see if its brighter...

It was all below the Big Dipper angle. Only 2 or 3 times living here full time since 2001 have I seen AB near overhead. I know you have Tilton's lights to your north too...

Just got back to the house. It's really like 25 degrees or maybe 35 degrees above the horizon. From my house with trees to my north I can't see anything. If I drive up my road 1/2 mile to the hilltop and look to the north horizon over the S Whites its very clear. The hilltop is pitch black with the Milky Way blazing. So unless you can see to the north (assuming no towns) you miss it. Between me and the Whites there are almost no lights. (Downtown Plymouth to the NE). If they get brighter and I can see them from the house I will repost. They seem to change in brightness minute by minute. When I just left they were very dim again....

Watching the Aurora Borealis right now looking North from Newfound Lake. Was a pretty good arc across the sky with some pillars a few minutes ago now it's tied down changes minute by minute

Skies extremely bright to the north. Damn clouds!! KP index 8!

I'm up on a Hilltop right now looking North in the sky looks extremely bright. About 75% covered by clouds but in between the clouds its very bright

I just saw this picture of the eclipse from space. I found it interesting because as you can see the totality line is not as sharp all the way around. Like taking a flashlight and shinning it over a globe depending on if the flashlight beam points straight down or at an angle, it will make a difference. In the case of the moon the "beam" is the shadow. So if the eclipse was closer to mid day the shadow comes quicker/more defined. If it occurs near sunrise or sunset it is more diffuse. I'm not sure if I am making sense or not. .

I posted this on the New England thread but will repeat it here. This photographers description summed it up perfectly! His picture attached...

Because I saw my 3 1/2 minute total in Aruba in 1998 I have been harping my family and friends to do whatever they had to do to see this one. I started 3 years ago. The last few months I have aggravated so many people because I kept saying you have to do this! Do whatever you can, you just have to see this. A few family members got it and went. A couple of friends too but most just told me, Gene, shut up, enough is enough a partial is fine and I can watch it on TV. Now you guys know! Before this week I was in a club of about 50,000 people that lived in the US and had seen a total. At least you guys now understand. Even today the people I talk to say, yeah it looked neat on the evening news but no big deal!

I would book a winter (April) vacation in the Mexican resort town of Mazatlan. It's on the Pacific side. Almost guaranteed sunshine. That's what we did. Tropical vacation and a total on the beach. Can't beat it. I was urging my friends last week to look into booking. I was just looking at the rates of resorts there and they are incredibly low. Of course that will change for eclipse week. I bet after this week the resorts in that town are booking fast if they take reservations that far out, who knows? Lots of time to start saving your money!!

Jeremy so glad you got to see this. Wow, the weather could not have been better across the US. Sure a few places got clouded out but all and all over 3000 miles the weather was epic. I guess all could be summed up by this picture I saw and the photographers comments. I saw this on facebook and it really summed up my experience in 1998. Now we look forward to April 8 2024. Only 6 years and 9 months away... Blake Farnham is with Sam Ridout-Claude. Yesterday at 5:24am · For three days and two nights I sat on top this mountain thinking of how I would capture something I'd never seen before. I had two minutes of totality, plenty of time to get all the shots I wanted. Yet when the time finally came and the sun went black, tears began to run down my face. I had never seen anything so beautiful, epic, or surreal in my life. The feeling was so overwhelming. I scrambled to change lenses, re-frame the shot, change settings, all while shaking uncontrollably with eyes full of water. Before I knew it the sun was peaking out the other side, it had felt like the whole thing lasted only seconds. This photo is one of only five I was able to capture. We drove over 2,000 miles to see a total eclipse and bring home this picture. I wish everyone could've been sitting there with me. This moment truly changed my life.

Just noticed the KP index is 5 right now. Clear skies no moon, any chance of anything up here tonight??

Everything does become crisper as you get to the thin crescent sun. Usually the shadowed areas are muted in outline since the orb of the sun is not a point. As the last rays come down it is more of a point so shadows on the ground have sharp lines. Many people don't notice but I did. The whole quality of light within 10 minutes is very strange. It's a sunny day but the light is just dim, weird. Something you can't explain to people unless you experience it first hand. Glad it was a success for you!

It's really fun today watching the Utube videos from people in totality. So many people really had no idea what to expect. The hooting and hollering of normal folks is so fun to watch. Kids just jumping around. I knew it would be a total over performer for people that had never seen one. Watching totality with many other people adds to the excitement!

So frickin happy for my fellow AMWXers that are going to see this. You don't know the treat your in for!! Good Luck!

Okay, hot tip! 2024 eclipse goes from Mexico to New England. Hits the Pacific coast of Mexico at the resort town of Mazatlan. Mexico weather is the best and this resort is on the beach. Book a room today!! This is what we did for Aruba in 1998. Winter vacation and long total eclipse on the beach!!!! CAN"T BEAT IT!. We had to book 5 years in advance. So my advice is to get on the phone today and book a vacation. Once the US sees how fantastic a total eclipse is everyone will be thinking about places like Mexico!! Next week might be too late....