wxdude64

Well, as someone earlier posted, my experience was VERY different. In 2017 I was on top of a mountain off Foothills Parkway in eastern TN, seeing that darkness close in from a distance was awesome! Being in central TX with small elevation changes you couldn't tell/see it closing in. However, it WAS a longer period of darkness than 2017. We had partly cloudy skies and missed about 30-45 seconds of the start of totality because of it, but the rest was awesome. Their neighbor has chickens and both the roosters carried on like it was morning once the sun broke back out. We saw an awesome bright eruption on the south/lower side of the sun during, and then the ring once the moon started clearing the sun. We got to our location about 4 hours in advance (visiting her relatives) and then stayed another day, so travel was not an issue for us.

ALL of these are really weird, whoever made them likes the Simpons I believe, but here is an idea and you can follow all the rest if you wish.

I have a 20x15 spot I'd like to try something like this, partial shade though..... same seed types?

More like a football score

Do the bit 'extra' and drive the 5-10 miles to get to totality. You will thank us ALL for the difference. I'm gonna be on the centerline west of Waco (4:30 of darkness) to enjoy. Whether cloudy or sunny, we are meeting some of her family so it has a duel purpose.

Third or fourth round of rain/sleet/graupel/snow here. Almost whitens ground then stops and sun pops out a short bit to go back to previous. Temp hits 44-47 when sun is out, drops into mid 30's when precip falls. Currently 38.1/32.4 with all the above precip falling and a WNW wind at 8 gusting to 23.

Wet period. Not quite an inch in gauge though. Set (tied) a warm minimum for the date (54.7), had gusty winds and hail with at least three separate thunderstorms. Lightly raining at 8 am with 58/56 and a barometer still dropping at 29.35!

Just had about 2-3 minutes of hail here, small, mostly 1/2" with a couple 3/4" pieces about 10 minutes ago.

WOW

AND NOW a new tornado warning for Greenbrier and Pocahontas counties...

Confirmed tornado just north of Beckley WV about 20 minutes ago.

My numbers for March 2024 Averaged high was 59.2 degrees vs a normal of 54.4 degrees, a +4.8 degrees above average. The highest temp recorded was 76.5 degrees on the 15th. Averaged low was 34.6 degrees vs a normal of 30.0 degrees, a + 4.6 degrees above average. The coldest temp recorded was 21.5 degrees on the 1st. Averaged temp from the month was 46.9 degrees vs a normal of 42.2 degrees, 4.7 degrees above normal. The total precip for the month was 2.62 inches vs a normal of 3.52 inches, a -0.90 inches below average. The wettest day was the 23rd with 0.84 inches falling. There were 11 days with measurable, 5 days with a 'T' and 15 dry days. Total snowfall for the month was a 'T' vs a normal of 4.5 inches, a -4.5 inches below average, and goes into 2nd place behind the 0.0's for 1982/83/89/97 and 2000. Highest wind for the month was 51 mph on the 30th. There were 15 days with winds recorded above 25 mph. No new records for the month. Overall a warm, windy, semi-dry and snowless month. Records go back to October 1979.

Under a STW until 1:15 pm here for up to 70 mph winds, but so far nothing close to that. Picked up .25 in about 9 minutes though. Still raining lightly.

DCA: +1.1 NYC: +1.0 BOS: +1.0 ORD: +1.0 ATL: +0.1 IAH: +0.1 DEN: +0.6 PHX: +0.2 SEA: +0.9

Oh, and awesome lightning show off to my NW last night from 10-11 pm. All I got was a brief gusty shower around midnight though.