Juliancolton

Fog is awesome. Only radiation fog that you can climb above so it becomes an undercast, though.

I asked the spruce tree out front but it just lobbed a pine cone at me.

I can't find my handheld anemometer. Now I'll have to stand out in the driving rain just for the heck of it

Anyone know why I can't hotlink imgur files anymore?

Probably 99% of us barely see wet pavement but someone slantgauges their way to 5.74" so the bust police will forbid us from being disappointed.

SB 51, 3rd quarter. Somebody somewhere sold their soul or something.

Yeah, but CAA ensures no fake cold so who's to say?

She took the post down but in the comments she was raving about how they use Doppler radar to create tornadoes for population control... it was a trip.

The plastic flamingos really look lifelike down there.

Nah, you had negative rainfall 3 out of 4 months. Water ascended from nearby waterways into the sky.

I mowed for the first time in a month yesterday (mostly to mulch leaves and even out the few patches that are still growing a bit) and it was intolerably dusty. We're parched. Some of the most reliably vibrant trees in my hood went straight from green to sickly brown this past week - never seen anything like it.

Sickening. Reports of a kindergarten collapse from the quake while in session, with 100 children unaccounted for.

Really bad situation in Mexico City unfolding.

I didn't set up my camera until after the substorm started fading, figured I had more time than I did. Unlike with most events, the photos I got are actually less impressive than what I saw with the naked eye just moments before. Plus, I think I had my camera shooting at the wrong bit depth so the sky is all posterized. Urgh...

Naked eye pink pillars down here for a few minutes. Beautiful.

I'm not convinced this was the shock from the X9.3 associated CME yet... IMF already trending weaker and north

Still much too bright here from twilight but at least it's clear for the time being.

Largest flare of the whole solar cycle. Still several hours before the next link with SOHO is established to determine the extent and direction of any potential CME, but it looks pretty textbook. A "glancing blow" scenario seems most likely with the position of the source region.

If you still have your eclipse glasses, definitely go check out the naked-eye sunspots currently near the middle of the sun's disc. Snapped this a few minutes ago... the bottom active region is rapidly evolving into a more magnetically complex configuration and could start producing some pretty sizable solar flares.

I got seasick once on one of those silly whale-watching boat rides and 3 hours felt like an eternity. Not sure you could pay me enough to spend days at a time on the high seas...

I've actually spent a little time since Monday looking into what it would take to hit up La Serena, Chile in 2019. At the centerline, about an hour north of the city if you take the rural coastal roads, totality is just 2m36s – as we've all just witnessed, that's spectacularly brief. That said, it all goes down about an hour before sunset, so the low angle would introduce a while new dimension into it I think. The photography prospects would be epic with the beaches and rocky coastline.

Some folks just don't share in the enthusiasm even after experiencing the thing for themselves. My dad has seen a couple in his lifetime and thinks it's pretty cool when you find yourself in totality, but probably wouldn't go out of his way to see another one even if it were only a half hour down the road. Everybody gets their kicks in different ways... if it were up to me, my whole family would be fanatical snowstorm chasers but alas.

Yeah, that may well be the defining shot for me as well... I love all the human activity and the fact that there are some actual landmarks connecting the eclipse to a real place. I was slightly worried the sun would be too high to capture any foreground elements, but I actually visited this spot with my widest lens at 2:40 on Sunday and confirmed that I could get the shot. Overall I'm pretty thrilled with how I managed to successfully take several different types of pictures while still enjoying the event with my own senses. My goal now is to be fully automated for the next one so I don't have to concentrate on the cameras at all during totality. Very much a fan of your photos as well. That most recent one is spectacular with how brightly Regulus is shining.