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3 hours ago, CT Rain said:

Completely cleared out in Dallas for totality. The cu field went poof and miraculously had no cirrus! 
 

Just an absolutely exceptional experience.

Totally the same experience for us in Irving…..we were trying to get east of Dallas but I kept seeing that cu field getting closer so I bailed in Irving and camped out in a vacant parking lot…..we only had some annoying stray clouds right before - like 30 seconds - totality….and then poof….it disappeared right before went total…..just as amazing as 2017 but better with the lack of clouds and twice as long…..

2 hours ago, NW_of_GYX said:

Well that was cool. Also saw some weird light wave effect happening on the snow in the field just before and after totality. Can’t post videos or else I’d share.




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Shadow bands…..we saw them too in Dallas…..

Wow wow wow

enjoy guys further northeast 

that was amazing 

full corona

Jupiter 

Just now, eekuasepinniW said:

Solar radiation starting to tank from a high of 835w/m2.

Can totally feel it

Shadow bands!!! Fuck a duck 

Oh shit Dallas!!!!

6 minutes ago, CT Rain said:

I have no idea how my flight tomorrow is going to take off given the severe weather expected!

Oof - we’re scheduled to fly out 10:30 tonight to Reno…..hopefully we get good eyes on eclipse…..

Happy chasing everyone…..halfway to Dallas now…..cutting it close…..trying to get to park about half an hour outside DFW…..had to move flight to next one out of LaGuardia

1 hour ago, weathafella said:

Latest NAM looks great for VT where we’re going unless we have to divert which seems less likely.   We’ll be in CON overnight Sunday and follow the sun Monday.  2017 in Gallitin,TN was stupendous.   Who’d have thought the northeast would have the best chances but goes to show that you never really know.

Dallas is still in play

I'm sticking with TX and will see whats what.....climo will save us in the end right? lol

Enjoy your eclipse - its the only eclipse you got......

2 hours ago, Chrisrotary12 said:

Not sure if it was posted, but Pivotal has a cool Eclipse page. https://www.pivotalweather.com/eclipse2024/

That is a cool site….definitely bookmarked….

2 hours ago, BuffaloWeather said:

Starting to look pretty solid for my area.

Gonna need to keep building that ridge eastern half of country.....I am so nervous with my plans for Dallas.....

Also it’s embarrassing the airfare gouging happening…..not cool

35 minutes ago, Winter Wizard said:

So the plan is to fly into San Antonio on Thursday and leave Tuesday - I've had that flight and hotel booked for months. If we get rerouted, I think the most likely plan would be to spend Sunday driving toward AR. If it turns out we need to be in MO/IL, may actually end up leaving Saturday or just get up at the crack of dawn and push as far as we can. Ideally, if we have to move, it would be within reasonable distance of STL or MEM, so I'd fly from there to San Antonio Tuesday evening, then push my flight back to Wednesday evening. 

The absolute last resort would be to fly into New England and head north but logistically that's very difficult for our group, who's coming from all over the US. 

Any chance you could get in earlier?

Initially flying in Monday morning was the only option but our plans changed and now the change of flights would be way too expensive…..the logistics of trying to chase this thing and get to Reno later are a lot….I’ll be regrouping tomorrow….man

2 hours ago, Winter Wizard said:

Deterministic models tend to vastly overestimate cloud cover in the long range. We won't truly have an idea what the situation will be until we start to get into hi-resolution model territory. I would not be concerned on the southern edge of the path yet, nor would I be spiking the football in New England or near the Lakes. There are lots of ways that this could still go wrong on the mesoscale.

I say this as someone flying to San Antonio, who is prepared to reroute if need be. 

What is your reroute plan if you needed to? We are flying into Dallas and landing at 9:00ish that morning and getting a rental car….we’d have about 3 hours to get rental and go to a target but that’s only gonna buy us like 100 miles radius tops, which if there’s significant clouds won’t work probably…..I’m getting nervous for sure….we spent way too much dough on the flight and it’s part of a larger vacation where we leave Dallas that night to Reno for snowboard vacation in Tahoe….the logistics are a nightmare…..

Were you prepared to fly elsewhere or get in earlier and drive further?

10 hours ago, LibertyBell said:

this map is so confusing, especially with that annoying ad at the bottom that hides the color key.  So white actually means clear skies? It should be the reverse-- we normally associate white with clouds!  I thought Texas was in the clear and New York was mostly cloudy, but it looks like the opposite is true.

 

Don't trust these cloud cover maps too much......gonna have to wait until middle of next week to really get a feel for where we stand......the cloud cover maps are typically way overdone......

32 minutes ago, dendrite said:

Yeah I definitely wouldn’t worry too much about those maps until you get inside 5 days. Even less if there isn’t a major synoptic system.

How good are the cloud cover maps anyway?  Are they experimental?  Are they shit even inside 2 or 3 days?  Like the clown snowfall maps lol

Gonna need to see that wave speed up and get out of the way....

38 minutes ago, wxeyeNH said:

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!

Ya was looking at this earlier......had to reel it in a bit with the 276 hr lead but if this stays on the models for another few days I'll be getting nervous for our Dallas plans......that would suck so bad......

3 hours ago, Jebman said:

Well we wont have mud. Central Texas didnt get stuck with feet of snow like the Northeast did this winter.

Sunshine and hell hot is something we are very, very good at. The southeasterlies set up, dews climb to prodigious heights then it gets nice and hot. And cloudless.

Most of Texas should be clear to maybe partly cloudy, should be pretty good eclipse weather.

Famous. Last. Words.

Watch us end up with a rare Gulf Low that clouds Austin up with heavy rain all damn day April 8, while the rest of the country gets wall to wall sunshine and an unseasonable heat wave lmao!

You know, somehow, I really wouldnt be surprised. I am OLD. This is my very last chance to see a total solar eclipse in America. I'm in bad shape. I will NOT see the 2040s. I will be very lucky to see 65.

Yeah, April 8 will be thick dark clouds in Texas, record rains with absolutely FRANTIC emergency water rescues, over four feet of rain in a 7 hour period in Travis and Hays Counties shattering records since the Civil War in the mid 19th Century. And I spend the entire day clinging desperately to a tree, screaming for help until I am fooking hoarse, while 57 foot deep waters rage all around me!

Connecticut will be sunny and cloudless with record hot weather, setting new 200 year records making me wish heartily I had gone to Connecticut to see the eclipse because Texas is so wet during a total eclipse from record rains from a 3500 mile long line of training thunderstorms. The ONE time in my whole life I never wanted rain in Texas ---- WE WILL GET IT -----

On April 8th, the Day of the Total Eclipse.

Bank on it. With serious interest.

Hey, there's still time for me to board a flight to Connecticut.

We’ll hope it’s clear cuz the flight to Dallas is booked and it wasn’t cheap…..

1 hour ago, Jebman said:

Come see the eclipse in Texas.

No mud.

No cloudy skies. 

Just wall to wall sunshine, beautiful 87/66 weather to witness the best eclipse of your life!

You sure about that chief?

Mega lol......OK I'm not too worried yet for Dallas......

LOL.......is the eclipse modelled?  

2 hours ago, Professional Lurker said:

Test out your glasses ahead of time, l hear there's a lot of fakes being sold. No sense in blinding your family.

Sent from my Pixel 7 using Tapatalk
 

I did and they seem OK but TBH I'm not sure you can 100% be certain they're not fake unless you actually test them with expensive scanning equipment or whatever.......the ones I used in 2017 were good and the 3 I just bought are the same kind so IDK.......trying to take all the precautions as much as I can

Here we are folks.....we talked so much about whats happening in 2 weeks......dang.....

This time I am chasing with the whole crew......the kids have to see this......April 8 is beginning of spring break for them so we are heading to Lake Tahoe for a week of snowboarding but on the way we will stop in Dallas to catch the eclipse......crazy schedule but who cares......if all goes well should be amazing.....leave LaGuardia at 6am Monday and land in Dallas Fort Worth at like 9:30am and we will chill out and eclipse watch before we board plane for Reno at 10pm......the rest is just a vacation......can't wait