Total Solar Eclipse coming to NY: April 8, 2024

[tirolski]

Looked like a storm coming with the shadow darkening the WSW cloud cover in CNY. Couldn’t see shit with eclipse glasses on. There went a $1.99. Could make out the shape of a white crescent sun through the clouds for a second every once in a great while. Got really dark for a couple minutes. Cool to be home for it with family, a friend and dogs.
Processed reversed when the sky started lightening to the WSW. Twas a cool time period & amazing couple minutes without even seeing the sun & the corona as we were clouded out. Dogs and the rest of us had fun.

The North American Total Eclipse of April 2024

Contributors: Scott Bachmeier, Mat Gunshor, Rick Kohrs, Margaret Mooney, Jim Nelson, Tim Schmit, and Eric Verbeten. The animation above (here) will auto-update about every 20 minutes. The eclipse starts in the GOES-West footprint, as shown above (Here’s a link to a Full-Disk GOES-West...

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[greymoose]

Here at Big Moose Lake, skies went cloudy 5 minutes in then cleared up. We got lucky as the totality was really cool, temps included

 

[Warp daddy]

Not sure where you were but the totality was spectacular in Indian Lake!!

St Lawrence River too much cloud cover ,yeah it got dark streetlights came on then it got light BFD

 

[Warp daddy]

You are near Titus right? How dark did it get?

Nope St Lawrence River 73 miles west of Titus ,cloudy , underwhelming did ge dark enough for streetlights to come on and was momentarily cool

 

[tirolski]

Nope St Lawrence River 73 miles west of Titus ,cloudy , underwhelming did ge dark enough for streetlights to come on and was momentarily cool

Twas much darker than a full moon night around here.

For the first partial we kept saying, “Is it getting darker or is it me?”...
Then “night" came in quick for a coupla minutes.
Then it was, "Is it getting lighter out, or is it me?"

Definitely beat the shit outta jury duty.

Jury Duty

I ain’t a judge but was summoned for jury duty starting April 8th. Called ‘em and asked for a postponement as I’d have to wait till 2144 for the next total eclipse to come around. She laughed. Asked her if I was the 1st to ask for a postponement due to the eclipse. “Yup" was the answer. Got it...

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[chumpomatic]

Wilmington

 

[Deez]

Wilmington

Where in Wilmington did you watch it from ?
I was thinking of going to Preston Field - was town filled up ?

 

[Low Angle Life]

I'm a convert, worth any amount of inconvenience to witness the totality. Port Henry, NY.

 

[chumpomatic]

That's from our deck. Not sure what it was like in town but I heard there were a lot of cars in the lot at WF.

 

[MarzNC]

Even at Alta, people were hoping to see something of the eclipse. We got to the top of Collins after coming across the EBT just as there was enough cloud cover to get a glimpse. Bill snapped a quick picture.