PrinceFrederickWx

The previous photo I posted, but adjusted even darker. This more closely approximates what it looked like in person. (I'm still learning photo editing)

It doesn’t even matter if sunny is in the forecast anymore, I just assume every day will be cloudy and 60’s (like today yet again lol)

6 hours ago, IronTy said:

You're right!  Back edge incoming on radar.  The day is saved!

LOL no… it’s been back to drizzling as usual

1 hour ago, IronTy said:

We had our one nice day of the week allotment yesterday...be prepared for another long stretch of crap weather and low clouds.

I could just write “cloudy with drizzle, highs in the 60’s” for the Calvert forecast and be right probably about 300 days of the year now. 

It wasn’t supposed to rain here today but it is.

I feel like the default all year now IMBY is 60's, clouds and rain. We're like the Pacific northwest now.

Someone start a countdown thread for the mid-Atlantic: https://abcnews.go.com/amp/International/smoke-canadian-wildfires-reaches-us-minnesota-air-quality/story?id=110149929

100% clouds here and it sounds like it’s a bust for tonight anyway… punting and going all in for tomorrow hopefully.

I can’t believe I’m fretting over clouds and checking hourly forecasts just a month after the eclipse. I thought I didn’t have to do this for at least another few years. 

35 minutes ago, WxWatcher007 said:

 

We need to get Sunday night into Monday; that would be prime viewing IMBY.

Nice clear skies here, can’t wait for the clouds to move in again tonight to ruin it again.

This is like the universe’s payback for my lucky eclipse and Great Conjunction breaks lol

This is worse than Boxing Day lol

DCA: 100

IAD: 100

BWI: 101

RIC: 100

We're thinking of going to coastal Maine next March to try for this one at sunrise: https://www.timeanddate.com/eclipse/in/usa/portland-me?iso=20250329

Here's the whole map: No one gets totality but we're into partials too. :-)

https://www.timeanddate.com/eclipse/map/2025-march-29

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_eclipse_of_March_29,_2025

Took this at Sylvan Heights Bird Park in Scotland Neck, NC last week. This was our second time there and I highly recommend it. This is a Victoria Crowned Pigeon (one of our favorite birds).

Imagine having code purple air quality alerts from the Canadian wildfire redux while looking at the forecast cone for category 5 Hurricane William coming up the Bay. 

17 minutes ago, nw baltimore wx said:

You may want to look into Play Airlines.  You can fly from BWI to Madrid where the weather would likely be better, and do a stopover in Iceland for up to 10 days either going out or coming home. 

Yeah I saw Play and Icelandair go direct from BWI to Reykjavik. Much shorter flight than I expected too! I may PM you with some questions at some point if you’re ok with that.

On 4/9/2024 at 9:06 PM, nw baltimore wx said:

I loved my recent trip to Iceland but I’m not sure I’d risk their weather for an eclipse. 

We’re considering taking the clouds risk and going to iceland in 2026 anyway. I’ve never traveled internationally but it’s always been a country I’d like to see. The eclipse would just be a bonus.

1 hour ago, George BM said:

I noticed a fire blow up on satellite and radar SE of Fredericksburg, VA yesterday afternoon. I wonder if that could be the source? 

That might be it, the AirNow map has a small, darker area from southeast of Fredericksburg into King George and Charles, with some yellows (everywhere surrounding it is green). I’m not smelling it anymore now at least.

…I think I’m getting faint whiffs of a wildfire smell again?

On 4/11/2024 at 8:27 PM, nj2va said:

We need to start the thread for the next eclipse already.  This was fun to track along with everyone!

I’d definitely be interested in having a thread to discuss all future eclipses. I’ve been researching them all a lot.

My only picture of totality. This shot was overexposed and too bright in my iPhone, but it cleaned up decent after being darkened in my editor at home. It's nowhere near as good as most of the pics you all took, but it was all I had to work with given a malfunctioning iPhone and only 2.5 minutes. Nothing at all compares to seeing it with the naked eye though.

There’s also The Great American (partial) Eclipse on 1/14/2029 (which also happens to be on my mother’s birthday):

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_eclipse_of_January_14,_2029

We need a HECS the day before this too LOL

I used this site for the eclipse and it was really accurate. They have a map for 2026 too: 

http://xjubier.free.fr/en/site_pages/solar_eclipses/TSE_2026_GoogleMapFull.html

3.6% partial IMBY 

NNE gets a somewhat decent partial though.