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2.5" never got below 1 mile vis today. Mostly very small flakage. Finally in past 15 minutes a few bonafide medium flakes mixed in. Sky very bright. Peak wind gust 14mph. Town plow still has not bothered to go by. Kids could easily had school. Total disasta...unless something backs in from the east.

1pm. Very light snow and snow grains. Snow started at 8am and after 5 hours 2". Intense band to my east wants to come west but falls apart. Big bust incoming? Starting to look like that.

Watching WMUR news at noon here in NH. Reporting 14 people without power in the state. I thought it might be an error but just checked the Eversource map. 2 customers without power in their service region

27.4F Light snow, light winds. Vis 1.25 miles. Poor snow growth 1.5" new (Been snowing for 4 hours now)

27.5F light snow Vis 1 mile. Wind north 4 gusts to 14mph. Poor snow growth. 1/2" over the past 2 hours.

29f very light snow. Heavy dusting. Expected 2/3 inches by now according to models. Get this stuff north please.

Lots of people saw it all over New England. My neighbor swears it landed just behind his house! He said it went down just behind his trees. Highly doubtful. I told him he should take the day off and go into his woods and find it. A 1 pound meteorite is worth about a million bucks!

Looking at that shot I am trying to figure out the city light sources. To the extreme right must be Berlin. Maybe Littleton on the left? Then on the far horizon that must be Montreal. Years ago I did a winter overnight edu trip at the summit. A noreaster was developing down in the mid-Atlantic and the cirrus shield had made it over SNE. Boston's lights were quite visible reflecting up to the underside of the clouds. Actually, this would be a neat question to the observers. If a cirrus shield was over NYC would they be able to see the cirrus lit that far away. I think it would be possible. For some reason the "how far can you see" question has always interested me. Edit. Maybe the horizon lights are Burlington?

KP index a 5 so I went to the top of the hill for a look. Definite brightening on the north horizon but with the naked eye I could not make out any detail. Need to be able to see to fairly low to the north to notice. Moon rises around 9pm which will probably kill anything after that....

I went up to the top of my hill last night and couldn't see anything. My friend Dave setup at the foot of Newfound Lake and with a time exposure caught them very faintly. Like the ones I briefly saw last week they are usually far on the north horizon. The key lately is you really need to have an unobstructed north view without any city lights in that direction... Here's the pic he posted on his site...

Well for the moment I don't see anything so it was fleeing or maybe it will start back up again but bed time for me.

Yes, the 03 event was like "wow what is going on" . Spectacular. Going to drive up to the hill one more time right now...just to see if its brighter...

It was all below the Big Dipper angle. Only 2 or 3 times living here full time since 2001 have I seen AB near overhead. I know you have Tilton's lights to your north too...

Just got back to the house. It's really like 25 degrees or maybe 35 degrees above the horizon. From my house with trees to my north I can't see anything. If I drive up my road 1/2 mile to the hilltop and look to the north horizon over the S Whites its very clear. The hilltop is pitch black with the Milky Way blazing. So unless you can see to the north (assuming no towns) you miss it. Between me and the Whites there are almost no lights. (Downtown Plymouth to the NE). If they get brighter and I can see them from the house I will repost. They seem to change in brightness minute by minute. When I just left they were very dim again....

Watching the Aurora Borealis right now looking North from Newfound Lake. Was a pretty good arc across the sky with some pillars a few minutes ago now it's tied down changes minute by minute

Skies extremely bright to the north. Damn clouds!! KP index 8!

I'm up on a Hilltop right now looking North in the sky looks extremely bright. About 75% covered by clouds but in between the clouds its very bright

I just saw this picture of the eclipse from space. I found it interesting because as you can see the totality line is not as sharp all the way around. Like taking a flashlight and shinning it over a globe depending on if the flashlight beam points straight down or at an angle, it will make a difference. In the case of the moon the "beam" is the shadow. So if the eclipse was closer to mid day the shadow comes quicker/more defined. If it occurs near sunrise or sunset it is more diffuse. I'm not sure if I am making sense or not. .

I posted this on the New England thread but will repeat it here. This photographers description summed it up perfectly! His picture attached...

Because I saw my 3 1/2 minute total in Aruba in 1998 I have been harping my family and friends to do whatever they had to do to see this one. I started 3 years ago. The last few months I have aggravated so many people because I kept saying you have to do this! Do whatever you can, you just have to see this. A few family members got it and went. A couple of friends too but most just told me, Gene, shut up, enough is enough a partial is fine and I can watch it on TV. Now you guys know! Before this week I was in a club of about 50,000 people that lived in the US and had seen a total. At least you guys now understand. Even today the people I talk to say, yeah it looked neat on the evening news but no big deal!

I would book a winter (April) vacation in the Mexican resort town of Mazatlan. It's on the Pacific side. Almost guaranteed sunshine. That's what we did. Tropical vacation and a total on the beach. Can't beat it. I was urging my friends last week to look into booking. I was just looking at the rates of resorts there and they are incredibly low. Of course that will change for eclipse week. I bet after this week the resorts in that town are booking fast if they take reservations that far out, who knows? Lots of time to start saving your money!!

Jeremy so glad you got to see this. Wow, the weather could not have been better across the US. Sure a few places got clouded out but all and all over 3000 miles the weather was epic. I guess all could be summed up by this picture I saw and the photographers comments. I saw this on facebook and it really summed up my experience in 1998. Now we look forward to April 8 2024. Only 6 years and 9 months away... Blake Farnham is with Sam Ridout-Claude. Yesterday at 5:24am · For three days and two nights I sat on top this mountain thinking of how I would capture something I'd never seen before. I had two minutes of totality, plenty of time to get all the shots I wanted. Yet when the time finally came and the sun went black, tears began to run down my face. I had never seen anything so beautiful, epic, or surreal in my life. The feeling was so overwhelming. I scrambled to change lenses, re-frame the shot, change settings, all while shaking uncontrollably with eyes full of water. Before I knew it the sun was peaking out the other side, it had felt like the whole thing lasted only seconds. This photo is one of only five I was able to capture. We drove over 2,000 miles to see a total eclipse and bring home this picture. I wish everyone could've been sitting there with me. This moment truly changed my life.

Just noticed the KP index is 5 right now. Clear skies no moon, any chance of anything up here tonight??

Everything does become crisper as you get to the thin crescent sun. Usually the shadowed areas are muted in outline since the orb of the sun is not a point. As the last rays come down it is more of a point so shadows on the ground have sharp lines. Many people don't notice but I did. The whole quality of light within 10 minutes is very strange. It's a sunny day but the light is just dim, weird. Something you can't explain to people unless you experience it first hand. Glad it was a success for you!

It's really fun today watching the Utube videos from people in totality. So many people really had no idea what to expect. The hooting and hollering of normal folks is so fun to watch. Kids just jumping around. I knew it would be a total over performer for people that had never seen one. Watching totality with many other people adds to the excitement!