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2 hours ago, powderfreak said:

You guys down south certainly stop traveling northward and move on to other things…

Even the locals start looking to the warm season.

This amount of snow and skiable terrain in November would be a gong-show of crowds.

But people want seasons-in-seasons with the sun/solar calendar.  Long daylight in April, they are looking at warm season.  Short daylight like October and November, they want to rush cold season activities.

The other day with sun coming through at times, there were a total of 8 people riding the FourRunner Quad here. The flagship lift.  Only 8 people on the line at 12pm.

The general public has moved on completely and these rainy days show why ski areas lose money this time of year operating.  

Midweek operations after like April 1st are brutal.

 

But that guy in the ski thread thought Sugarbush was out to screw him. 

22 minutes ago, weatherwiz said:

Most humid summer on record?

Can we get through an entire month of spring first?

1 hour ago, Torch Tiger said:

it's raining!!

From the Jay Peak Facebook page.

It had a pretty big impact up here. Vermont officials estimate 160K people drove to the state for Monday’s eclipse.  We went up by KMPV to watch and there must have been 20 small planes lining the runway.

2 hours ago, powderfreak said:

Life has its ups and downs... you win some and lose some.  However, the factors that lined up to make this possible were pretty incredible.

This has been the wettest year, winter, whatever on record for some spots in New England.  It has precipitated a lot, it's been murky, we are back into it for a few days right now up here.  Its cloudy and damp right now, changing to cloudy and wet high elevation snow and valley rain showers over the weekend.

It has been so wet.  For so long.  However for this rare cosmic event the universe gave us euphoric weather.  Even without the eclipse, that sunshine and warmth (even in snow covered areas) would've been a banner day.  Throw in totality during the peak awesomeness of the weather/afternoon.  Mind-blowing.

How did we get so lucky?  It could've been 35F with dense fog and/or thick stratus with ease.  The fact that it wasn't raining and instead was perfect weather during this unstoppable event, damn.

Hell, if had been just a few days earlier it would have been obscured by heavy snow. 

22 minutes ago, powderfreak said:

It is interesting that so many people were just so awestruck that it didn’t matter.  Love that.  People like, yeah so what, that was the coolest thing I’ll ever see, etc.

I think that there was enough communication about what to expect for traffic that people were ready for it or at least resigned to dealing with it.

9 minutes ago, Ginx snewx said:

Great stories.  I am pretty amazed more people didn't take a vacation day Mon and stay up there until the traffic died. I would absolutely die in 11 hr traffic. 

This was the post eclipse traffic on 89 south between exits 7 and 6 at 7:30 on the 8th.  It was crazy.  I couldn't imagine sitting in that, I would go nuts.

1 hour ago, Torch Tiger said:

 

This too.

1 hour ago, kdxken said:

It's a beauty! Nothing but blue skies. 

 

5 hours ago, dendrite said:

Slope

Or as DT would say “Slop(head)!”

3 hours ago, klw said:

Good.  How bad is Stowe?  I am in the office in Hyde Park wondering:

1.  How late do I stay?

2.  Do I do the usual 100 to 89 or do I go 12 to Montpelier then Barre and back roads home and avoid the highway all together?

I went down to Montpelier around 7:30 and it was still pretty crowded. The restaurants seemed pretty busy. When I was done with my walk I went up the hill and circled down to Rt. 2 to avoid the traffic. 

3 hours ago, Cold Miser said:

...Pic from my cousin who was in Syracuse.

Looks like last summer during the smoke show. 

4 hours ago, klw said:

Just a normal day on i-89

 

This was around 7:30.  When I got to the top of 3 Mile Hill the line of cars stretched as far I could see. 

2 minutes ago, RUNNAWAYICEBERG said:

Interesting…where would you see it? 

Banff, Alberta

A few pictures from my iPhone

Here is the temp drop at my station.  10°

2 minutes ago, LibertyBell said:

how do you know it wasn't 100%?

There is still a little imprecision with these calculations

I used the NASA tool but I didn't take a chance and drove to where totality was assured.  

1 hour ago, eekuasepinniW said:

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

This is from my station.  We were at 99.9% totality.

4 minutes ago, borderwx said:

Not sure what’s more incredible
The eclipse anticipation, or the fact that it is 61F


.

Only 59.9° here.  I'm getting screwed!

17 minutes ago, kazimirkai said:

I am planning on going up Rt 100 in Vt from Rochester tmrw morning towards a spot just nw of Newport. Thoughts on traffic, clouds?

Lake Memphremagog?

2 hours ago, eyewall said:

I am in Mountain View, AR for this one. 4 minutes and 14 seconds of totality if our weather holds.

This should have been your Smuggs trip. 

Went down to W. Leb this afternoon. Pretty steady stream of cars coming north on 89. Didn’t seem that much heavier than the Friday before a holiday weekend during ski season. 

2 hours ago, wxsniss said:

Same exact plan

Agree I think cloud cover will be a thin veil at most + we'll be far enough east that Newport vs. Colebrook should work. Defaulting to Newport given the extra seconds of totality.

I'm so nervous just about getting there leaving Boston at 8am.

Still can't believe New England may have one of the the best patches of viewing on the planet...

I'll PM you my cell #

You can also try Canaan, VT. It might be a little as crowded than Colebrook. 

1 hour ago, powderfreak said:

April cake.  This afternoon saw a glimpse of sun between thick clouds and steady periods of -SN.  Only 2” in past 24 hours (1” every 12hrs) on the plot board, but been a fun 3 days with 26” if you add it up.. but to me the true storm total was 23” from the steady storm snow. This winter has actually hit normal snowfall in the mountain elevations.

Now a total solar eclipse coming. What a time to be alive, ha.

Is Stowe going to do something like the Easter sunrise service up top for the eclipse?