#cleveland weather forecast

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[meteorologistaustenlonek]

Got a pupper at home you're taking for a walk tonight? Weather looks good for a stroll.

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[radiojamming]

Hey guys! We're looking at another severe weather outbreak tomorrow evening/night and it's shaping up to potentially get nasty. Like, bad enough that storm chasers I know are already either leaving for southern Kansas and northern Oklahoma, or backing out entirely because they're worried about what's going to happen. Last time, the post I made got a little bit of traction, so I thought I'd go for it again on the off chance that it's helpful at all.

Here are the following regions currently set to be impacted, according to today's (5/24) outlook from the Storm Prediction Center:

MODERATE (MDT): Oklahoma City, OK; Tulsa, OK; Wichita, KS; Norman, OK; Lawton, OK

ENHANCED (ENH): Kansas City, MO; Overland Park, KS; Kansas City, KS; Topeka, KS; Olathe, KS

SLIGHT (SLGT): Lincoln, NE; Springfield, MO; Abilene, TX; St. Joseph, MO; Fayetteville, AR

MARGINAL (MRGL): Dallas, TX; Columbus, OH; Fort Worth, TX; Cleveland, OH; Omaha, NE

The SPC will update this forecast tomorrow (5/25) morning and will monitor it throughout the day and make changes if need be.

Here are my tips (as well as @fruitsmother's great advice!) from the outbreak two weeks ago.

Another great resource for right-to-the-minute weather updates is Ryan Hall, who will more than likely livestream tomorrow and is great about providing watches and warnings as they come in and giving advice about what to do. He also runs a 501(c)(3) non-profit The Y'All Squad that provides assistance and relief in areas hit by severe weather events.

Just to hit some key points for this forecast and reiterate the biggest pieces of advice:

These storms are forecasted to produce damaging winds, large hail, and potentially strong or violent tornadoes. These storms may hit during the night, meaning there will be low visibility. Do not just rely on sight to monitor the weather; rotation may occur right above you and not all tornadoes are immediately visible. Listen to NOAA weather radio, news stations, or any other resource you may have.

If the weather gets bad, go to a basement or the lowest level of a building. If the building doesn't have a basement, go to the most interior room (usually a bathroom or closet) with no windows. If in a bathroom, consider bringing in couch cushions, pillows, or a mattress to cover yourself in case of falling debris.

Stay away from windows, especially with the potential for high winds and hail. Do not open your windows (see: common tornado myths).

DO NOT GO OUTSIDE TO WATCH. Even if there isn't a tornado, flying debris and huge pieces of hail falling at incredible speeds are a real issue! If you've never gotten clocked in the head with an ice chunk, now is not the time to find out how it feels!

If you haven't already done so, now is the best time to consider your severe weather plan and set up your safe place. Some items you might want to have on hand are things like flashlights or lanterns, extra batteries, phone chargers, food, water, clothing, blankets, several days' worth of medicine if needed, and a first aid kit. If you have pets, it might be best to put pet carriers, extra food, water, leashes, or anything else you may need in this area as well.

Review some basic first aid skills and tips.

If you're on the road, do not go up under an overpass. This is very '90s advice and has been proven either ineffective or outright dangerous. Go into a ditch and try to get yourself as low as possible.

In the worst case scenario of a tornado or other destructive event (microbursts, derechos, etc.), be a help, not a hindrance! Don't clog roadways; allow emergency personnel to get where they need to go!

Just as well, this is not a day for amateur storm chasers. Chaser convergence has been a real problem this year and as we've learned (unfortunately) in the past, tornadoes don't always follow their usual rules, which can put even the most seasoned chaser in danger. This is going to be a great day to watch Pecos Hank or Skip Talbot videos while being as safe as possible.

I'll keep you guys updated as the models from the SPC change or if anything else comes up. Mostly, stay safe!

[merelygifted]

The northern lights are coming to several states this week. Here's how to watch : NPR

...  The aurora borealis could be seen across parts of Washington, Idaho, Vermont, Wyoming, New Hampshire, Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, Minnesota, Nebraska, Massachusetts, Maryland, Ohio, Wisconsin, Michigan, New York, [and] Maine, according to the university.

On Wednesday, the storm will be highly visible "low on the horizon from Seattle, Des Moines [Iowa], Chicago, Cleveland, Boston, and Halifax [Nova Scotia]."

On Thursday, the storm will get stronger and can be seen overhead in Minneapolis, Milwaukee; Bay City, Mich., and on the horizon in Salem, Mass.; Boise, Idaho; Cheyenne, Wyo.; Lincoln, Neb.; Indianapolis, and Annapolis, MD.  ...

...  The Space Weather Prediction Center says the best time to view the aurora is usually between 10 p.m. and 2 a.m. local time.

You don't need any special equipment to see auroras.

Pick a spot where there is little light pollution.

Get to a higher elevation if possible.

Check the forecast for signs of clouds or precipitation, which could block your view.

Scan the skies...they can appear from all directions.   

[tomorrowusa]

Total Solar Eclipse Weather ☀

Most of us have heard this aphorism in some form: Climate is what you expect, weather is what you get.

Based on climatological records, long range predictions for conditions along the path of totality for the April 8th total solar eclipse had suggested that the Texas portion of the path would be relatively favorable while the New England portion would be unfavorable. But as it turns out, almost the opposite is true.

But as of Sunday, things don't look bright for most of the Texas portion of the path with the possible exception of the extreme northern end near Oklahoma. On the other hand, the portion of the path that goes through northern New England looks quite good for Monday afternoon.

Tomer Burg is a PhD candidate in meteorology at the University of Oklahoma. His 2021 hurricane season forecasts were superb. For example: he was way ahead of just about everybody in forecasting the effects of the remnants of Hurricane Ida on the Northeast.

So Tomer has added a section on eclipse visibility to his academic site. The page of most interest is the City Dashboard.

Go to the link below and click City Dashboard on the left.

2024 Eclipse Forecasts

At the dashboard you'll find a small map on the upper left showing the path of totality with circles indicating various locations of interest. Clicking a circle will cause maps to appear to the right which show both overall cloud cover and cloud layers broken down by cloud height.

Right now the Dallas forecast for eclipse time shows a predicted 59% overall cloud cover broken down as 24% low/28% mid/55% high cloud cover. On the other hand, Colebrook, New Hampshire's cloud forecast is: 0% overall, 0% low/0% mid/0% high cloud cover.

Cloud height is key. High clouds tend to be thin and wispy. They are less likely to interfere with eclipse viewing. Lower clouds tend to be more problematic – with the exception of the very small puffy "fair weather" clouds which tend to move quickly.

So don't be too put off by moderate percentages for high clouds as long as the percentages for lower clouds aren't very big.

Here's a non-interactive map created by Tomer. Consult the City Dashboard for more specific info.

This is predicted cloud cover. The darker the gray, the cloudier; the deeper the blue, the more cloudless.

^^^ In general: west-central and northeastern Arkansas could be the best places in the South to observe the eclipse. If you're looking for a spot in a blue state west of the Appalachians, Mount Vernon, Illinois is easy to get to with both I-57 and I-64 going through town. Cleveland and the area to its west look good. Indianapolis is also promising.

But the cloudless place to be in the US on Monday is northern New England; the Clinton County shore on the New York side of Lake Champlain may be the best place for NYC residents wanting to stay in state.

For up to date weather conditions, go to the official National Weather Service site. It's no nonsense – they aren't going to sensationalize anything nor try to sell you stuff. Just enter the location or ZIP in the upper left field.

National Weather Service

[weather-usa]

A historically hot summer continues its deadly rampage with no signs of letting up.

A historically hot summer in the United States is causing a deadly surge in July, with the toll expected to rise as the hottest days are yet to come.

This has been the hottest summer on record for around 100 US cities, spanning from Maine to California. Heat is suspected in the deaths of at least 37 people in the US in July, though this number is likely underestimated due to the time it takes to attribute deaths to extreme heat, nature’s most prolific weather killer.

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Many of the deaths have occurred in the West, where cities have shattered all-time high-temperature records during an unprecedented and prolonged heatwave—conditions scientists link to the effects of climate change driven by fossil fuel pollution.

In Santa Clara County, California alone, heat is being investigated as the cause of at least 19 deaths, according to the county’s medical examiner office.

While everyone is vulnerable to heat, certain groups are at higher risk. These include children, the elderly, pregnant individuals, people with heart or blood pressure issues, outdoor workers, and anyone without access to reliable cooling.

In Santa Clara County, at least three of the potential heat-related deaths involved unhoused individuals without adequate access to cooling, and nine were over the age of 65, the county medical examiner reported to CNN.

In Southeast Texas, at least one person has died from heat-related causes, as over 1 million people remain without power four days after Hurricane Beryl. Others have died or fallen ill from improper attempts to stay cool using generators.

Tragically, four children have lost their lives this month due to heat-related incidents: a 2-year-old in Arizona and Georgia, a 4-year-old in Texas, and a 5-year-old in Nebraska who were left in cars. Additionally, a 10-year-old child died from a heat-related medical event while hiking in a Phoenix park amid scorching temperatures last week, as Phoenix has broken or tied multiple daily heat records since July began.

See more: https://www.flickr.com/photos/weatherusa_app/53775099164/in/dateposted-public/

In Phoenix, temperatures have soared above 110 degrees, with nightly lows remaining above 90 degrees since last Tuesday. Maricopa County is investigating dozens of deaths potentially linked to extreme heat.

Oregon has reported at least 10 suspected heat-related deaths, with six occurring in Portland's Multnomah County. Portland saw record-breaking highs for five consecutive days last week, with temperatures reaching triple digits on three occasions.

The heat wave has also impacted outdoor enthusiasts. A motorcyclist succumbed to heat exposure in Death Valley, where temperatures soared to 128 degrees, setting a new daily record and coming within six degrees of the hottest temperature ever recorded on Earth.

A 50-year-old man also tragically passed away while hiking in Grand Canyon National Park on Sunday amid extreme heat, confirmed by the National Park Service.

Climate and Average Weather Year Round in 44102-Cleveland-OH:

https://www.behance.net/gallery/200457469/Weather-Forecast-For-44102-Cleveland-OH

Confirming heat as the cause of these deaths remains a complex process, as noted by David S. Jones, a physician and historian at Harvard University, in previous comments to CNN. Medical examiners or coroners must determine a single cause of death, and in some areas, these officials may lack medical backgrounds, being political appointees or elected officials.

"The assessment of (cause of death) itself is intricate," Jones explained. "For instance, if someone is found deceased in an apartment, determining the primary cause of death—such as attributing it to heart disease because the heart stopped—is often the approach taken by many medical examiners."

As more deaths are confirmed and temperatures remain high, heat-related fatalities are expected to increase in the coming weeks.

While the intense heat in the Western United States is set to gradually ease starting late this weekend, temperatures will return to near-normal or slightly above-average summer levels. July typically remains hot across the region, even without daily record-breaking heat.

Across much of the US, above-average temperatures are forecasted to persist through the end of July and potentially into early August, according to the Climate Prediction Center.

See more:

https://weatherusa.app/zip-code/weather-80023

https://weatherusa.app/zip-code/weather-80024

https://weatherusa.app/zip-code/weather-80025

https://weatherusa.app/zip-code/weather-80026

https://weatherusa.app/zip-code/weather-80027

[scattered-winter]

Supplies clattered together as Shiro rifled through them, quickly sorting through gear and stowing it in piles. His mind raced, a blur of calculations and predictions and that constant, never-ending ripple of worry. How far he had to go. What he would need to bring. He could take a truck at least some of the way there, before the snow became too much to handle. He could walk the rest of the way, snowshoe or even ski. Two hundred miles.

Two hundred miles of the worst storms humanity had ever seen between him and Keith. If he stopped to think about any of it, he would simply collapse and let the fear and dread overwhelm him.

But he’d told Keith he would come for him. Keith would be sheltering in place, waiting for a rescue.

Despite his trembling hands, Shiro stowed his arctic gear into the bag, compressed it down as much as he could. He still needed to get rations, lanterns, equipment. He needed to find a truck.

A gentle knock on the doorframe had Shiro’s head snapping up.

Coran leaned against the wall, looking more weary and drawn than Shiro had ever seen him in all the time they’d worked together. He’d been awake for a full twenty four hours at least, cobbling together some bare semblance of a forecast of what was to come. One of the most brilliant climatologists Shiro knew, and he was at just as much a loss as Shiro himself.

“Adam told me about Keith,” Coran said quietly, hands tucking into the pockets of his overcoat.

Shiro paused long enough to give Coran a sharp look. “I’m going. I don’t care what—”

Coran raised his hand to stop him. “I won’t try to talk you out of going,” he said. His expression tugged downward. “If it was Allura out there, well. I’m certain I’d be doing the same thing.”

Shiro zipped up the pack and straightened, waiting.

Coran shook himself. “There’s something I need you to do first, before you leave.” He sighed, then, “You have to explain your findings to the administration.”

Shiro blew out a frustrated breath, shaking his head. “I already tried that.” They hadn’t listened, of course, and now half the country was going to die where they stood.

“This time will be different,” Coran said grimly. “You’re going to brief the president directly.”

Now Shiro froze, and looked up to meet Coran’s eyes again. He saw the same numb weariness there that he felt himself.

For the last two days they’d been watching the world end. Shiro almost couldn’t process it all. How could anyone? Millions dead. Entire cities gone dark. And this was only the beginning.

He sighed, mustered up what little courage he still had left. “Okay.”

________

Snowflakes whipped into his eyes, sharp and stinging, and Shiro blinked them away as he packed bags of gear into the bed of the truck. He’d checked and rechecked, and was certain he was finally ready to head out.

As ready as he could possibly be, anyway. He’d spent much of his professional life in remote places all over the world studying the weather, but felt woefully underprepared for what he was about to do.

There was no amount of training or study that could prepare anyone for this. Despite the fact that he was one of the leading professionals of this entire mess, Shiro had no idea what he was walking into.

The sound of equipment thunking into the bed of the truck had Shiro’s head snapping up.

Adam, bundled into his yellow snow gear, goggles pushed onto his head above his hat and scarf tucked around his neck. He had a bag slung over one shoulder, and swung it into the truck to join the first item.

Shiro blinked at him in shock. “What the hell are you doing? You’re supposed to be on a bus heading south.”

Adam glanced over and quirked his eyebrows. “I know for a fact that you can’t navigate worth a damn. Without me, you’ll end up in Cleveland.”

Shiro’s mouth worked. Finally, he managed words. “I can’t ask you to come with me.”

“Good thing you’re not, then.” Adam’s chin lifted a fraction, a sharp challenge in his brown eyes. “Where are the keys?”

Shiro held his gaze for a moment more, then sighed and shook his head, unable to hold back his smile. “Bastard.”

Adam hummed in cheerful agreement and moved around the truck toward the door on the driver’s side.

Footsteps crunched over snow, and Allura stood there, tucked into her coat and cheeks flaring red from the cold as silvery strands whipped around her face. “I’ll try to give updates on the storm as it heads your way,” she said, reaching for Shiro’s hand to shake. “Good luck.”

He squeezed her hand once and let go. “Thanks. Be safe, okay?”

Allura’s lips twitched upward in an incredulous grin. “I’m going south. I’ll be fine. You be careful—both of you.”

Adam had stepped up behind Shiro, and he nodded, reaching to clasp Allura’s shoulder. “See ya, princess. I’ll send you a postcard.”

Allura’s tiny grin grew a fraction, and she shook her head in exasperation at the nickname. “Jesus. Just go, already.”

Adam laughed, and pulled Allura into a tight hug. “I’ll see you on the other side of this.”

“You’d better,” Allura murmured.

[head-post]

Millions of North Americans expect total solar eclipse

On Monday, millions of North Americans will be looking at the sky during a total solar eclipse, when the moon will completely cover the sun for more than four minutes in some locations, LBC reports.

Nearly everyone in North America is guaranteed at least a partial eclipse, weather permitting. This promises to be the largest number of eclipse viewers in North America, thanks to the fact that the midday darkness will last up to four minutes in Texas and elsewhere. It will be another 21 years before the US sees another total solar eclipse of this magnitude.

The best weather is expected at the end of the eclipse in Vermont and Maine, as well as New Brunswick and Newfoundland. National Weather Service meteorologist Alexa Maines explained at Cleveland’s Great Lakes Science Centre on Sunday:

Cloud cover is one of the trickier things to forecast. At the very least, it won’t snow.

Read more HERE

[abcnewspr]

ABC NEWS ANNOUNCES SOMARA THEODORE AS METEOROLOGIST BASED IN NEW YORK CITY

ABC News president Kim Godwin sent the following note to the news division announcing that Somara Theodore has joined ABC News as a meteorologist based in New York City

Credit: ABC/Heidi Gutman

Good morning, ABC News –

I am excited to announce that Somara Theodore has joined the ABC News team as our newest meteorologist based in New York City.

Somara is an award-winning meteorologist hailing from WRC-TV in Washington D.C., where she served on Storm Team 4 for six years, reporting forecasts on the weekend-edition newscasts, NBCWashington.com, WTOP Radio as well as NBC’s Weekend Today. Additionally, Somara provided wall-to-wall coverage of Hurricane Ian for MSNBC. While in D.C., Somara also served as an adjunct professor at the University of Maryland, teaching broadcast meteorology.

Prior to WRC-TV, Somara was the morning meteorologist at WEWS-TV in Cleveland, where she won an Emmy ® Award for her comprehensive morning weathercast of a deadly plane crash in Akron, Ohio. Somara’s career kicked off as a weekend meteorologist for WJCL-TV in Savannah, Georgia.

In this new role at ABC News, Somara will serve as our third New York-based meteorologist, working alongside our trailblazing team that includes chief meteorologist and managing editor of ABC News’ climate unit Ginger Zee and senior meteorologist Rob Marciano.

With Somara among our ranks, I look forward to the unparalleled, continuing coverage of weather systems and climate change, expanding on our team’s on-the-ground reporting over the years from coast to coast within the U.S. and across the world from Mexico City to Canada, Antarctica to Africa, New Zealand to Australia and beyond.

Please join me in giving a warm welcome to Somara.

#oneabcnews

Kim

[misfitwashere]

November 17, 2024

HEATHER COX RICHARDSON

NOV 18

Tonight is a break from the craziness of the news. 

I often say that 1883 is my favorite year in history because of all that happened in that pivotal year, and one of those things is the way modernity swept across the United States of America in a way that was shocking at the time but that is now so much a part of our world we rarely even think of it….

Until November 18, 1883, railroads across the United States operated under 53 different time schedules, differentiated on railroad maps by a complicated system of colors. For travelers, time shifts meant constant confusion and, frequently, missed trains. And then, at noon on Sunday, November 18, 1883, railroads across the North American continent shifted their schedules to conform to a new standard time. Under the new system, North America would have just five time zones. 

Fifteen minutes before the time of the shift, the telegraph company Western Union shut down all telegraph lines for anything but the declaration of the new time. It identified the moment the new time went into effect in telegraph messages to local railroad offices and to the jewelers known in cities for keeping time. In offices that got the message, men had their timepieces in their hands and ready to reset when the chief operator shouted “twelve o’clock!” 

In Boston the change meant that the clocks would move forward about 16 minutes; in New York City, clocks were set back about four minutes. For Baltimore the time would move forward six minutes and twenty-eight seconds; in Atlanta it went back 22 minutes. 

The system was a dramatic wrench for the rural United States, bringing it into the modern world. Uniform time zones had been proposed by pioneering meteorologist Cleveland Abbe, who developed the U.S. system of weather forecasting. Having joined the United States Weather Bureau as chief meteorologist in 1871, he recognized that predicting the weather required a nationally coordinated team and worked with Western Union to collect information about temperature, wind direction, precipitation, and sunset times from across the country. 

Coordinating that information required keeping time across all the stations he had set up. To do so, Abbe divided the United States into four time zones, each one hour apart, and in 1879 he suggested those zones might smooth out the chaos of the railroad systems, each trying to coordinate schedules across a patchwork of local times. Railroad executives, who were concerned that if they didn’t do something, the government would, listened to Abbe, and by 1883 they had concluded to put his new system in place.

Members of the new professional class who traveled by train from city to city were on board because they thought the need to regularize train schedules was imperative. But standard time was controversial. In the United States, people had operated entirely by the rhythms of the sun until the establishment of factories in New England in the 1830s, and most people still lived by those rhythms, their local time adjusting to solar time according to their geographical location. 

Telling the time by sundial and history not only was custom, but also was understood as following God’s time. The idea of overriding traditional timekeeping because of the needs of the modern world seemed positively sacrilegious. “People…must eat, sleep and work…by railroad time,” wrote a contributor to the Indianapolis Daily Sentinel. “People will have to marry by railroad time…. Ministers will be required to preach by railroad time…. Banks will open and close by railroad time; notes will be paid or protested by railroad time.” 

The mayor of Bangor, Maine, vetoed an ordinance in favor of standard time, saying it was unconstitutional, that it changed the immutable law of God, that the people didn’t want it, and that it was hard on the working men because it changed day into night. Those planning for a switch to standard time tried to ease fears by providing that Americans would operate on both local time and standard time, with both times represented on clocks.

On November 18, no one quite knew what the dramatic wrench into the future might mean. 

What did it mean to gain or lose time? Many people expected “a sensation, a stoppage of business, and some sort of a disaster, the nature of which could not be exactly ascertained,” a New York Times reporter recorded. As the great moment approached, people crowded the streets in front of jewelers to see the “great transformation.” 

They were disappointed when, after all the buildup, the future arrived quietly.

The New York Times explained: “When the reader of THE TIMES consults his paper at 8 o’clock this morning at his breakfast table it will be 9 o’clock in St. John, New Brunswick, 7 o’clock in Chicago, or rather in St. Louis—for Chicago authorities have refused to adopt the standard time, perhaps because the Chicago meridian was not selected as the one on which all time must be based—6 o’clock in Denver, Col. and 5 o’clock in San Francisco. That is the whole story in a nut-shell.”

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[rjzimmerman]

Winter forecast for the US in the 2024-25 season (AccuWeather)

A combination of La Niña keeping the storm track over the northern part of the country most of the winter, above-average water temperatures in the Gulf of Mexico, and mild Pacific air occasionally flowing into the Plains and East will limit the potential for cold air to have a sustained presence across the southern U.S.

December is the first month of meteorological winter and will bring brief blasts of cold air that will trigger lake-effect snow. This is the opposite of last December when little lake effect was seen in the typical areas, including Buffalo, New York, Marquette, Michigan, Erie, Pennsylvania, and Cleveland. Snow is also possible this December in areas farther away from the lakes from typical early-season winter storms. Big changes will unfold during the opening weeks of 2025 as a new weather pattern will promote milder air and less snow across the eastern half of the nation.

[baseballupdates]

"Major League Baseball on Friday announced that Saturday’s decisive Game Five of the American League Division Series presented by Booking.com between the Cleveland Guardians and the Detroit Tigers has been rescheduled from 8:08 p.m. (ET) to 1:08 p.m. (ET) due to the forecasted inclement weather in Cleveland."

[meteorologistaustenlonek]

Early Thursday morning will see rain/thunder ending and temperatures begin to slide. Getting the puppers out for a walk will involve a jacket and, earlier on, some rain protection. Thursday's @WDEFNews12 @RuffCutsCleveland #DogWalkingForecast.

[loislane-ana]

Cleveland area weather forecast: Impacts of Hurricane Helene

[gqresearch24]

Rare Solar Eclipse to Grace Skies Across North America and Europe, Unseen in Pakistan and India

A rare solar eclipse celestial event is set to captivate skygazers across North America and Europe, while sadly remaining elusive in Pakistan and India, according to reports from the Pakistan Meteorological Department (PMD) and Hindustan Times.

The Pakistan Meteorological Department (PMD) has confirmed that the eclipse will traverse the skies over Western Europe, North America, North South America, the Pacific, Atlantic, and Arctic regions. However, it’s regretfully stated that the spectacle will not grace the skies of Pakistan.

Echoing a similar sentiment, the Hindustan Times reports that India will also miss out on witnessing the total solar eclipse. The eclipse’s trajectory will be visible, contingent upon weather conditions, as it embarks on a journey starting from Mexico, traversing the United States, and eventually reaching Canada.

First-time viewers of a total Solar Eclipse will be gobsmacked by the sight

Enthusiasts of eclipses are already congregating in areas along the “path of totality,” with Fredericksburg in central Texas poised to witness the total eclipse shortly after 1830 GMT. Notably, Michael Zeiler, an experienced eclipse chaser from New Mexico, who has witnessed 11 total eclipses globally, plans to be present in Fredericksburg.

“First-time viewers of a total eclipse will be gobsmacked by the sight,” remarked Zeiler, underlining the profound impact of witnessing such a celestial event. This eclipse is expected to last longer than its predecessor in 2017, with a duration of up to 4 minutes and 28 seconds compared to the previous 2 minutes and 42 seconds.

According to NASA, total eclipses can range from a mere ten seconds to an astonishing seven and a half minutes. Cities along the path of totality include Mazatlan, Mexico; San Antonio, Austin, and Dallas, Texas; Indianapolis, Indiana; Cleveland, Ohio; Erie, Pennsylvania; both Niagara Falls, New York, and Niagara Falls, Ontario, home to the renowned waterfall; and Montreal, Quebec.

While a partial eclipse will be visible outside the path of totality in North America, approximately 32 million people in the United States reside within the path of totality, with an additional 5 million expected to travel to witness the event.

Awe-inspiring moment in the tapestry of the cosmos

Anthony Aveni, a seasoned veteran of eclipses and author of the book “In the Shadow of the Moon: The Science, Magic, and Mystery of Solar Eclipses,” described the phenomenon as “an interruption in nature’s status quo” that leaves observers breathless.

Forecasters have cautioned that the weather may be overcast across a substantial portion of the path of totality. Nonetheless, Zeiler, a cartographer and amateur astronomer, remains undeterred. He intends to meticulously study satellite images in the lead-up to the eclipse and swiftly relocate to a spot with clear skies, if necessary. Zeiler’s Great American Eclipse website offers a plethora of maps and data to assist fellow enthusiasts in their eclipse-watching endeavors. As anticipation mounts and preparations are made, millions await the rare spectacle of the solar eclipse, which promises to be an awe-inspiring moment in the tapestry of the cosmos.

Also Read: Bank of England Governor Hints at Multiple Interest Rate Cuts Amid Positive Economic Signals

[stephen-barry]

AccuWeather long-range forecasters have identified weather patterns and emerging trends to create the first look at the weather forecast for the astronomy event of the decade:

https://www.accuweather.com/en/solar-eclipse-2024/solar-eclipse-weather-forecast-accuweather-provides-1st-cloud-outlook/1628495

This is only a long term trend map, but, IMHO, you *will* get clouds over Buffalo, Cleveland and Erie on Apr 8th = since they are right on Lake Erie.