Having this experience right now with Aurora Australis.
I planned so hard for the April 8th eclipse it honestly gave me really bad anxiety lmao.
I had sites picked out for hundreds of miles along the path, constantly analyzing cloud cover projections every 6 hours that they released comparing a dozen different ones.
It was cloudy across nearly all of the path I could get to. But I did successfully find a spot where I was pretty sure cloud coverage should clear up beforehand. And it did. But I was freaked out almost up to the event.
Clouds when I arrived
Clearing up
Totality!
We actually changed our plans due to the weather. Were supposed to go to a place near Dallas. But ended up going to Arkansas. Got a great view. It’s impossible to realize how mesmerizing it is unless one experiences the totality personally.
This was actually near Dallas lol.
Between weather and light pollution I’ve accepted that I’m never gonna see anything cool in the night sky unless I drive over a thousand miles to the fuckin desert.
The solar eclipse that just passed. Clouds and rain the whole time.
This is what the full eclipse that I drove 8+ hours to see in Niagara Falls was like. Was a little disappointing but the sky did clear for about 15 seconds of the full eclipse (which was like 3 minutes 20 seconds in total for that area).
Living in Pennsylvania be like
