Love when stuff like this happens, but Mercury is always so close to the horizon that I have no spot to view it from. No open space around here will given me line of sight. Not even sure if the beach will work.
Yeah, the East horizon has a ridge with trees making it impossible to see before too much Sun has overwhelmed the view, and when I tried for the Western view, the clouds stacked up, viewing the atmosphere stretching to the horizon, blocking the viewing the planet as well.