As I recall, Lowell Lyon went back over the meteorological data for Wyoming, Idaho and Oregon towns near the path of totality, and concluded that, on average, Casper, Wyoming had the clearest weather for the dates of the eclipse, and that it was by a fairly substantial margin. That was his rationale for choosing Casper as the sight for ALCON. The only drawback being, averages don't pay the mortgage in a one shot deal. Wherever one goes, I think planning on driving a few hundred miles to the area on the morning of the eclipse is begging to be stuck in traffic while the eclipse occurs miles away.... Jo Grahn On Aug 22, 2014, at 1:09 AM, Joe Bauman via Utah-Astronomy <utah-astronomy@mailman.xmission.com> wrote:
You buys your ticket and you takes your chances.
On Friday, August 22, 2014 12:44 AM, Wiggins Patrick <paw@getbeehive.net> wrote:
Here's the updated image:
http://users.wirelessbeehive.com/~paw/keep/eclipsewx2014.jpg
patrick
On 21 Aug 2014, at 04:30, Wiggins Patrick <paw@getbeehive.net> wrote:
As most here probably already know the 2017 total solar eclipse will darken our skies 3 years from today.
Last year when it was 4 years from the magic hour I downloaded the weather satellite image showing cloud cover over the US: http://users.wirelessbeehive.com/~paw/keep/eclipsewx2013.jpg
I plan on doing the same today but since that image will be released hours before I normally get up I'm hoping diurnal folks here might want to download it just to be sure we have it in case I sleep through my alarm.
Find it here: http://weather.unisys.com/satellite/sat_vis.php?image=ir&inv=0&t=cur®ion=us
We'll want the one shot at 1730 UTC (1130 am MDT).
Clear skies,
patrick
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