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August 1999. The last total solar eclipse visible from the UK was 72 years ago, and the next one would be 91 years later. Young Ted woke up to a gloriously sunny day. This would be it!
An hour before the event we drove out to a nice remote viewing spot with minimal obstructions for miles around. 30 minutes to go, the clouds rolled in. Thick, blanket cloud from horizon to horizon. The eclipse happened. From under the cloud it got a bit darker and the birds had a bit of a freak out but it was otherwise a non-event. We drove back home, disappointed.
30 minutes later the clouds cleared and the rest of the day was as glorious as the morning had been. 27 years later I’m still bitter about it. Seattle’s got nothing on us!
So a few years ago there was an eclipse over spring break, which was nice because it wasn’t happening where we lived. Also my wife wanted to take a trip to Texas and see where I used to live and I wanted to introduce her to Real BBQ, because the stuff I make is good but the stuff they make is better. So we plan out one of those BBQ and music pilgrimage trips to Austin what happens to coincide with the eclipse maybe and… damn. It costs like $3,000 more a plane ticket if we stay over to see the eclipse. Like, to the minute, the airlines really were fucking us over, and the eclipse wasn’t really the point of the trip it was just a coincidence so we just decided to go home early.
We ended up coincidentally running into friends (who live in New York but are also music and space and BBQ geeks) in Austin at a ham shack that week so that was fun.
It was overcast The Entire Day in Texas. We saw more (partial) eclipse back home.
Usually it’s
TONIGHT: some event in six hours! - 17h ago
I deeply relate and also feel personally attacked haha
This is the Pacific Northwest described in 6 panels. Well done.
Yeah; sadly.
ITT: People being mad at Seattle.
Which happens to be where Matt Inman (the artist) lives.
Fucking Seattle.
I live in the sunniest part of Germany. Still happens.
I came to this thread to talk about my area and I see I’ve already been beat lol
I’m also in the PNW
I’ve missed so much cool stuff because of clouds lol
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Anyone else here from Scotland? 😅🌫️
This is me now that birds are migrating back. I want to get up early for golden hour photos but it’s always cloudy until the sun has been up for a few hours. One of these days I’ll get lucky.
You have two a day, and don’t forget about blue hours
There’s an interesting phenomena that happens when there’s a solar eclipse, the clouds clear out shortly before the eclipse begins.
Not sure if it’s consistent or why that happens at all, but that was my experience with it during the last eclipse.
Sounds like the phenomenon is you being the luckiest bastard under the sun!
Some clouds will dissipate, some will not. A storm will not dissipate because of an eclipse, let’s put it that way. It’d be sick as fuck, and probably freak everyone the fuck out, but I don’t think it can happen. Maybe if the storm was already dying.
Yeah. Wasn’t a storm, just cloudy.
After reading a bit about it, it seems low level cumulus clouds will clear due to the shifting weather, due to the onset of colder climate of the sun being partially blocked, those clouds clear out and basically vanish by the time the solar eclipse starts.
Won’t work on storms or such, but if it’s just cloudy, by the time the eclipse is in full force, you get a clean view.
I got to see the boob clouds once. 10/10
Ugh, my entire life in Washington State
