Not very predictable. From: Wiggins Patrick <paw@digis.net> To: Utah Astronomy <utah-astronomy@mailman.xmission.com> Sent: Friday, May 22, 2015 1:04 AM Subject: Re: [Utah-astronomy] Possible August 2017 Solar Eclipse Flight Here's the URL: http://users.wirelessbeehive.com/~paw/keep/eclipsewx2014.jpg On 22 May 2015, at 00:21, Wiggins Patrick <paw@digis.net> wrote:
When eclipse planning mobility is still a must.
Here are satellite images taken the last couple of years on the day and time the eclipse will happen. Note the location of the clouds.
patrick
On 21 May 2015, at 12:34, Josephine Grahn <jograhn@gmail.com> wrote:
I think you may find that Lowell Lyon spent a great deal of time looking at average historical cloud covers for that time, and the longest “period” for the eclipse. The intersection of least cloudy days and most time, was eastern Wyoming, which is why he proposed that Alcon 2017 be held in Casper, Wyoming, just before the Eclipse.
On May 21, 2015, at 1:41 PM, Siegfried Jachmann <siegfried@jachmann.org> wrote:
Mobility is the key. We're looking at the path from Idaho through Wyoming and into Nebraska. We're going to start making choices a couple of days ahead of the eclipse. Idaho, north of Idaho Falls, is our first choice. If it's obvious that it will be cloudy there then Wyoming and Nebraska are fall back positions. That's why they call it eclipse chasing.
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