I planned so hard for the April 8th eclipse it honestly gave me really bad anxiety lmao.
I had sites picked out for hundreds of miles along the path, constantly analyzing cloud cover projections every 6 hours that they released comparing a dozen different ones.
It was cloudy across nearly all of the path I could get to. But I did successfully find a spot where I was pretty sure cloud coverage should clear up beforehand. And it did. But I was freaked out almost up to the event.
Clouds when I arrived
Clearing up
Totality!
We actually changed our plans due to the weather. Were supposed to go to a place near Dallas. But ended up going to Arkansas. Got a great view. It’s impossible to realize how mesmerizing it is unless one experiences the totality personally.
This was actually near Dallas lol.
I’m so jelly.
Bro, me too - but for August 2017.
For context, I missed the eclipse in Germany in 1999 because we were visiting family abroad with my mom. So we said back then that we will find a way to see an eclipse. That was before the internet, my dad and sister had VHS taped the event from TV and there was a graph with dates and a map for future eclipses so we kinda knew that sometime in 201x there will be one in the USA.
Fast forward 17 years and we start planning. For us this includes not just an oversea flight and expensive hotels but also getting visas (we’re not German) and finding how to get to the place in the USA that is least likely to be clouded and we both don’t drive.
It was also the first time I ever slept in a tent. I think we ended up in Madras, Oregon. Man I can tell you we were nervous wracks when the weather forecast didn’t look good. But we ended up lucky and had a clear sky after all.
I planned a trip with my family. 8+ hour drive to Niagara Falls. We had cloud cover for all but 15 seconds of the 3 minutes and 20 seconds of full eclipse. Still an enjoyable trip because we spent a long weekend there but the clouds really did fuck me over on the main event.
Between weather and light pollution I’ve accepted that I’m never gonna see anything cool in the night sky unless I drive over a thousand miles to the fuckin desert.
The solar eclipse that just passed. Clouds and rain the whole time.
My friends and I planned to drive to a certain spot out of town to view it, but at the last minute, we decided to drive in the opposite direction and stop wherever looked good. That ended up paying off, since our original spot got completely overcast!
It must suck to have eyes so large that your lower eyelids can’t cover them.
Every single time -
Me: “Is rare astronomical phenomenon visible from the Southern hemisphere?”
Google: “Ha ha, nope.”
This is what the full eclipse that I drove 8+ hours to see in Niagara Falls was like. Was a little disappointing but the sky did clear for about 15 seconds of the full eclipse (which was like 3 minutes 20 seconds in total for that area).
Living in Pennsylvania be like
I can always depend on my Google feed to alert me to astrological events days after they’ve happened.
That fucker ruined my trip to Buffalo for the solar eclipse.
Having this experience right now with Aurora Australis.
Like tall people being further back at concerts, the clouds should have the courtesy and move underground
I don’t move back necessarily, but I let anyone in front of me if they want.
Mostly because there’s about to be a moshpit where we are and no one’s gonna be standing in the same place after that
What disgusting eyes
