wxeyeNH

The weather in Northern New England is looking to be some of the best in from Mexico up through the US. An eclipse like this in New New England has never happened in the modern era. So there is so much guess work as to the traffic and how many people will come up to view. Personally, I think the traffic is going to be a diaster. From Conway you don't want to go to Vermont. Take 16 north to Milan. If you drive perhaps 10 miles further north you will be in totality for over 1 minute. Remember there will be no facilites, no bathrooms, limited cell service and gas. Also a lot of snow and mud off of pavement. With all this in mind our travel to Aruba in 1998 was so worth it to see a total eclipse. Just mind blowing good.

Up to hour 36 on Weatherbell. 850 is slightly warmer

Let's get to 40"!!

I want that 966mb low back that was forecasted last week

Good luck to all the tow guys in NNE. Getting off any pavement right now is deep mud.

Brian, I'll take your sloppy seconds. I will do the very minimal cleanup as the week after will quickly melt it. Of course you have your pesky north exposure and things dry out slower.

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.

Just for eye candy, a clown Kuchera map. Actually the 10:1 is more in E Massachusetts but this trys to take in the warmth.

There is still solid snowcover from our last storm plus almost 1" liquid from this storm. Add a blue bomb next week and sunny and 70F on eclipse day, people coming to NNE and pulling off any side road will be deep in mud. The ground is mush at the moment and with a big storm of snow or rain next week it can only get worse.

Just your average 966mb low in the Gulf of Maine. Maybe it will stick around all week and slow down the weather pattern so high pressure moves in next weekend and the eclipse?

We all know how forecasts 276 hours work but just for fun this is this mornings GFS run. Won't it be the kicker if Texas is cloudy and NNE is clear!

41 R+ I'm glad I paid to have our roof shoveled off. 9" of heavily weighted snow remains on the ground. Since our big snowfall the temperatures have remained in the 30s except 41F yesterday and 44F today. I have no idea what is going to happen over the next week with all these systems and snow/rain.

From a Meteorological perspective what I remember from my Aruba eclipse is the wall of darkness coming down the beach. I could see to the horizen and it was pretty pronounced racing towards us at 1000mph. Most people just stare at the sun through totality but I really noticed how the strange light reflected of the scattered cumulous around and the rapidly changing sunrise to sunset effect in the distance all around us. The only thing I remember about animals was that the hotel had lots of exoctic birds in cages. Normally as dusk falls the staff would cover the cages up in the evening. No one remembered to do that and the birds were going nuts trying to figure why got became night all at once. If you can't make it to centerline it will not get that dark but at the edges of totality Bailey's beads and the Diamond Ring effect last longer. As i keep harping, 99% partial and a 100% total is like the difference between kissing someone and marrying them.

It will get dark at night. Even in areas like mine with 98% it will get extremely dark.

I live in the Plymouth area of Central NH. Route 25 west and up along the Conn River on the NH side is another option. Cross one of the bridges into Vermont and take side roads at least up to St Johnsbury. Also the NW are just west and north of Littleton NH gets briefly into totality. There are quite a few country roads if you have Google Maps etc. although cell service is very spotty in that area of NH.. It will not get very dark but Bailey's beads, Diamond Ring will last longer and you might be able to avoid lots of traffic. It all depends on the weather. If there is a high probablility of good weather a couple of days in advance, the more people will decide to head north. If it is iffy or of course a poor forecast with a large synoptic storm about to hit.... then just sleep in.

Crap, another snowstorm! My 18" on the north side of my nearly flat area of my roof is not melting. Whether it's rain or snow I have to have it snowraked. Crazy for the very end of March.

I guess maybe if you clear just before IP, then wait 6 hours and clear again before flip? I just waited until the storm was over and do 1 measurement. It's always a controversal issue. No way Northfield got more than me.

Take a look of my records on the snow thread. I had one storm early in the season with 8 in while at the bottom of my Hill was like a slushy 2 in. That helped in a lot of nickel and dimes. But I recorded everything.

Just about at the end. 18.75". This brings me to 76" for the season. Slightly below my norm but very close.

845pm SN 17.5"

740pm SN++ the heaviest snow i have seen with a synoptic system in the past few years other than the crazy meso band in the Dec 2022 storm. Almost snow squall intensity. 14.25"

Complete with dripping sounds. SN+ here. Vis is down to under 1/4 mile. Almost "squall" like heavy

SN but really good snow growth. Great storm. Best since Dec 2022 with that mega band.

26.3F Parachutes. Over the past few hours the precipatation has changed from snow to IP and back several times. Most of the time it has been sleet. In the last 5 minutes it has again flipped to snow. Will this be it for the duration? i would think so.

26.2 IP 12"