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April 2024 Total Eclipse
14 Feb 2024 | US Navy Vet

Posted on 02/14/2024 12:06:44 PM PST by US Navy Vet

Anyone planning anything for this event?


TOPICS: Astronomy; Education; Outdoors; Science
KEYWORDS: eclipse; solareclipse; solareclipse2024
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To: US Navy Vet

Well, I have some customers in Buffalo and Cleveland that I’ve been planning to see and have tentatively lined up trips to both locations to take advantage of the trip. At the last minute, I’ll cancel the one that is the most likely for cloud cover...Based on historical data, both are only at odds of 1 in 3 that it will be ‘mostly clear or better’.

Here’s a useful link for historical data for cities along the path... looks like the best odds of getting a clear sky are in Texas.... https://theskylive.com/articles/2023/02/best-places-to-see-the-2024-american-eclipse-based-on-historical-weather-data


61 posted on 02/14/2024 3:28:28 PM PST by hecticskeptic
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To: Wasichu

Interesting that local media is now warning people to stock up on groceries and fill gas tanks in advance of the eclipse.

What do they expect to happen? What do they know?


I suspect that there will be a large regional influx of people that drove there and will be gassing up before driving out, and will be eating while they are there.


62 posted on 02/14/2024 3:31:01 PM PST by lepton ("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
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To: US Navy Vet

Took the entire day off work. Live right in the heart of the viewing zone! Cities around us are planning for the “event.” And I plan to be in Bay Village, Ohio for viewing it over Lake Erie.


63 posted on 02/14/2024 3:33:22 PM PST by EBH (America Blackmailed, The True Story of the World War...Coming Soon (1/21-))
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To: Reddy

Reading about how the birds and insects become quiet during the eclipse.


Right before it, they become active - like all the noises from the hour before sunset compressed into 5 or so minutes.


64 posted on 02/14/2024 3:34:18 PM PST by lepton ("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
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To: BillyBonebrake

There’s a reason why the 10th Mountain Division is based at Fort Drum.


65 posted on 02/14/2024 3:35:00 PM PST by Gay State Conservative (Proudly Clinging To My Guns And My Religion)
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To: AZJeep

Quite often, the clouds go away during deep eclipse and totality and rapidly come back as the eclipse finishes.
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I wish I could say that for the eclipse on May 10, 1994 when I was with the family on the shores of Lake Erie....


66 posted on 02/14/2024 3:35:00 PM PST by hecticskeptic
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To: EBH

If you are on the lake, you might get to see the shadow zipping off at about 2k mph.


67 posted on 02/14/2024 3:35:58 PM PST by lepton ("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
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To: Mercat

I had lined up with a large group including an astronomer we know, but the area they’ll be in only has 2 1/2 minutes of totality.

My wife and daughter rebelled. We’re going to another friends place with almost 4 minutes totality.


68 posted on 02/14/2024 6:06:36 PM PST by cyclotic (Don’t be part of the problem. Be the entire problem)
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To: Vermont Lt

You are related to Ozzy? ;-)


69 posted on 02/14/2024 7:43:34 PM PST by Paul R. (Bin Laden wanted Obama killed so the incompetent VP, Biden, would become President!)
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To: US Navy Vet

I can just walk out my door.

For a longer view of totality I can go to my Mom’s old place. :-)

The biggest problem is that in the mid-South, cloudiness in April is likely.


70 posted on 02/14/2024 9:07:19 PM PST by Paul R. (Bin Laden wanted Obama killed so the incompetent VP, Biden, would become President!)
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To: hecticskeptic

I wish I could say that for the eclipse on May 10, 1994 when I was with the family on the shores of Lake Erie....

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Of course, this does not work all the time. When it rains cats and dogs, no eclipse will help.
in 2017, some of my family spend long time looking for the best place. Then, just during the eclipse, a small cloud showed up and destroyed the whole show. Just bad luck!
But, when I observed, in both cases, it rained all night beforehand. The day started with heavy overcast, but, as the partiality progressed, it started to clean up.
I got great skies during the totality, but it started clouding up again pretty soon afterwards!
And, I read a scientific explanation of this effect!
Not that I understood this article, but it has to do something with the sudden drop of the temperature.


71 posted on 02/15/2024 4:48:33 AM PST by AZJeep
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To: US Navy Vet

See What the Solar Eclipse Will Look Like across Most of the U.S.

Even if you’re not in the path of totality, the solar eclipse on April 8 will offer a show to nearly everyone across North and Central America

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/see-what-the-solar-eclipse-will-look-like-across-most-of-the-u-s/


72 posted on 02/15/2024 8:07:41 AM PST by Texan4Life
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To: US Navy Vet

This eclipse will occur during a “solar maximum” so the corona should be especially prominent / active.

With a little luck we may even get a large solar flare or Coronal Mass Ejection.

Of course, if we have really bad luck, we’ll get a really powerful CME aimed right at us, and another Carrington Event or worse...


73 posted on 02/17/2024 11:17:23 PM PST by Paul R. (Bin Laden wanted Obama killed so the incompetent VP, Biden, would become President!)
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