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Spring 2019 New England Banter and Disco


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Mark your calender.  5 years from this Monday another total solar eclipse will cross N America.  A longer, darker eclipse as compared to last years and the path of totality goes through NNE.  As I posted many times  one of the highlights of my life was to experience a total eclipse in Aruba years ago.  It's a must do and you have to be in the path of totality or it's just meh.  Put your vacation day in now with your employer!

Boston gets a 93% eclipse, my location in red is 97% 

Weather in NNE this time of year is another story.

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Jackman may briefly be one of the most heavily populated towns in Maine - red line looks to pass over the golf course north of town.  Of course, if it's like THIS April 8, not so good.  P&C has them at 7-14" with 5-9 during the day Monday.  GYX/CAR have WS watch posted for the northerly parts of their CWAs.  Would be a real bummer to have thick clouds for the only nearby full solar of one's lifetime.  Last 2 lunar eclipses have been ruined by clouds here, but that's a thousand times less frustrating than losing a solar.

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  On 4/6/2019 at 7:39 PM, wxeyeNH said:

Mark your calender.  5 years from this Monday another total solar eclipse will cross N America.  A longer, darker eclipse as compared to last years and the path of totality goes through NNE.  As I posted many times  one of the highlights of my life was to experience a total eclipse in Aruba years ago.  It's a must do and you have to be in the path of totality or it's just meh.  Put your vacation day in now with your employer!

Boston gets a 93% eclipse, my location in red is 97% 

Weather in NNE this time of year is another story.

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Oh man.  I'd watch that from the top of the mountain for that one for sure. 

No doubt there's probably only a 30% chance of actually seeing it without clouds.

Today would've been a no go.  Guess it would get dark though regardless. 

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  On 4/6/2019 at 8:46 PM, powderfreak said:

So jealous.  High of 41F at MVL so far and thick, low OVC obscuring the clouds.  

Preserving the pack?  :lol: 

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22" at 3 this afternoon - might lose another inch to U-40s.  Pack held 8.44" LE, or 38% water.  That's a bit overstated, as several crusts were 70%+, the in-betweens 35 or less.  Still almost ripe and tomorrow should push it closer.  Hope that 2-3" RA out in clown range goes away.

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  On 4/6/2019 at 9:05 PM, CoastalWx said:

That’s insane. I guess it shows you how strong the sun has an effect on temps when it’s out.

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Yeah solid gradient.  Got 30s near the international border and well into the 60s in parts of SNE.  

There's a huge gradient from NE VT over to the Champlain Valley where the sun has broken out.  

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  On 4/6/2019 at 9:14 PM, tamarack said:

22" at 3 this afternoon - might lose another inch to U-40s.  Pack held 8.44" LE, or 38% water.  That's a bit overstated, as several crusts were 70%+, the in-betweens 35 or less.  Still almost ripe and tomorrow should push it closer.  Hope that 2-3" RA out in clown range goes away.

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Damn, 22" still.  I'm down to 8-10" though there are a lot of snow free areas popping up around town.  

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Already quite a bit of talk in ski community about the eclipse. My wife's family in Centex will be path of totality too. Probably less chance of clouds there! I was in England in '99 and where it was around 97% and is wasn't very impressive...like the sun going behind a thick cloud on a sunny day. 

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  On 4/6/2019 at 7:39 PM, wxeyeNH said:

Mark your calender.  5 years from this Monday another total solar eclipse will cross N America.  A longer, darker eclipse as compared to last years and the path of totality goes through NNE.  As I posted many times  one of the highlights of my life was to experience a total eclipse in Aruba years ago.  It's a must do and you have to be in the path of totality or it's just meh.  Put your vacation day in now with your employer!

Boston gets a 93% eclipse, my location in red is 97% 

Weather in NNE this time of year is another story.

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Going to have to do some research. Maybe a great time to go back to Iceland. Thanks for the heads up!

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  On 4/6/2019 at 10:20 PM, Angus said:

Already quite a bit of talk in ski community about the eclipse. My wife's family in Centex will be path of totality too. Probably less chance of clouds there! I was in England in '99 and where it was around 97% and is wasn't very impressive...like the sun going behind a thick cloud on a sunny day. 

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Champlain Valley might be the best place up this way as they see more available sunshine than anywhere else up here.

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  On 4/6/2019 at 10:20 PM, Angus said:

Already quite a bit of talk in ski community about the eclipse. My wife's family in Centex will be path of totality too. Probably less chance of clouds there! I was in England in '99 and where it was around 97% and is wasn't very impressive...like the sun going behind a thick cloud on a sunny day. 

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Even at 99.5% its not super impressive.  Like someone once said, it's like almost being dead and being dead.  You have to be under the path of totality

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  On 4/6/2019 at 10:24 PM, geo1 said:

Going to have to do some research. Maybe a great time to go back to Iceland. Thanks for the heads up!

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Geo1, Iceland misses it.  The best place to view it is on the west coast of Mexico.  The resort city of Mazatlan gets almost unlimited sunshine in April and is on the ocean.  Take a Mexico vacation and watch it but I bet you need to book now.  Here's the path https://www.eclipse-chasers.com/php/tseCalculatorBig2.php?TSE=tse2024d

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When I was a kid we went up to the Gaspe Peninsula to see the one.  Driving down the road six people in a station wagon looking at the sky for a hole in the clouds and our watch to get the time driver included nobody looking at the road until NOW we stopped and piled out.  That wall of black coming down the St. Lawrence blew my mind.  I looked right at the sun thinking if I go blind this might as well be the last thing I see.

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  On 4/6/2019 at 11:12 PM, wxeyeNH said:

Geo1, Iceland misses it.  The best place to view it is on the west coast of Mexico.  The resort city of Mazatlan gets almost unlimited sunshine in April and is on the ocean.  Take a Mexico vacation and watch it but I bet you need to book now.  Here's the path https://www.eclipse-chasers.com/php/tseCalculatorBig2.php?TSE=tse2024d

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Thanks for the great info!

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  On 4/6/2019 at 11:13 PM, Tom12309 said:

When I was a kid we went up to the Gaspe Peninsula to see the one.  Driving down the road six people in a station wagon looking at the sky for a hole in the clouds and our watch to get the time driver included nobody looking at the road until NOW we stopped and piled out.  That wall of black coming down the St. Lawrence blew my mind.  I looked right at the sun thinking if I go blind this might as well be the last thing I see.

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March 7 1970?   Carly Simon's song.  You flew your lear jet up to Nova Scotia to see the total eclipse of the sun, your so vain"

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  On 4/7/2019 at 12:06 AM, WxWatcher007 said:

Could not agree more. It’s a truly awe inspiring event. I drove to SC for the last one and while the anticipation was special the actual period of totality was extraordinary. Stars came out, street lights came on, and the temperature dropped. There was almost silence in the crowd. 

Can’t access my pictures right now but here’s one I posted on this board (top) and a better one posted by a friend of totality in Oregon.

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I was in Sullivans Island, SC for it and it was the coolest things I've ever seen. Nothing really compares to it. 

 

 

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  On 4/7/2019 at 1:44 AM, HIPPYVALLEY said:

Oh’ boy, ticks are out in numbers.  Already pulling them off the kid and dogs.  I swear, April and October are the worst for deer ticks. 

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Every time I work out in the woods I have to do a check and I'm always finding one.  We never had so many growing up and I always wondering why until I started putting out a game camera for a YouTube project and when I saw 10-15 deer walking by I knew why.  It's amazing how prolific they are.  I rarely see them when I'm just walking in the woods but they are there!

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  On 4/6/2019 at 11:54 PM, wxeyeNH said:

March 7 1970?   Carly Simon's song.  You flew your lear jet up to Nova Scotia to see the total eclipse of the sun, your so vain"

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93% in NNJ for that one.  It was like twilight but with sun high in the sky.  Odd, but the only reason we stopped nailing shingles was the novelty - there was plenty of light to keep working.

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