One year ago... #weather is what you get. Forecasted storms were late, cleared just enough just in time to see #SolarEclipse2024 totality in Mesquite TX. Since cumulus clouds grow with daytime solar heating, the partial eclipse leading up to totality apparently cooled the air enough to inhibit them. Not everyone was as lucky that day. Spring is unpredictable - actual cloud cover along the path of totality differed from average expectations. https://spacey.space/@AstroHawk/112237121736018901 #eclipse #astronomy #travel

One year ago, April 8, 2024, was the total #SolarEclipse2024 across North America. I watched from the Totality Dallas festival in Mesquite, Texas. Located at a regional park in the eastern Dallas metro, it had longer totality (4 minutes) than the big sold-out event in downtown. https://spacey.space/@AstroHawk/112236220385840532 #astronomy #travel

One year ago was the day before the April 8, 2024 Total #SolarEclipse2024. I got to Mesquite, Texas (eastern Dallas metro) around mid-day to try to arrive ahead of the crush of traffic as everyone came from everywhere to the path of totality. Even before I found a place to get lunch, I met a news crew preparing to cover the next day's festivities in downtown. I was interviewed by AP aerospace reporter Marcia Dunn. https://spacey.space/@AstroHawk/112231193378607141 #astronomy #spacegeek #eclipse #travel

A year ago I was on the way to see the Total #SolarEclipse2024. With snowfall expected to close I-84 in eastern Oregon's Blue Mountains, I had to leave a day early on the road trip to stay ahead of it. The snow followed just behind me until the Rocky Mountains in New Mexico where the storm weakened enough that a slightly late 9:30am departure allowed the sun to melt snow & ice on the pass on I-40. Overnight stops were in Boise ID, Price UT, Albuquerque NM and Wichita Falls TX. #astronomy #travel

"Cloudy with a Chance of Eclipse" by @NASAEarth Observatory / @avoiland - Some observers during #SolarEclipse2024 helped #NASA collect geographically widespread data on #SolarEclipse effects on clouds. https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/152771/cloudy-with-a-chance-of-eclipse #astronomy #weather

City of Dallas posted "Totality Dallas Festival Recap" from April 8 #SolarEclipse2024. I attended that event, which was held at Samuell Farm Park in Mesquite. (Dallas owns the park. But it's southeast outside Dallas.) We had 4min 8sec totality. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tP1jy2HEbVY #astronomy #travel

Got this cool shot with two moons eclipsing the sun!

"Eclipse Path Maps" by @XKCD comic - After #SolarEclipse2024, the cartoonist takes elements of #SolarEclipse2026 and others to add up all the worst fears of eclipse chasers in how to plan a trip to one https://xkcd.com/2921/ #astronomy #travel

"The April 8 Total Solar Eclipse: Through the Eyes of NASA" by @NASA - #SolarEclipse2024 images by #NASA from public presentations, studies of animal reactions, jets, satellites and space station astronauts https://science.nasa.gov/solar-system/skywatching/april-8-total-solar-eclipse-through-the-eyes-of-nasa/ #astronomy

Odd moment on return from #SolarEclipse2024 on US Hwy 89 from I-40 in Arizona to I-15 in Utah. GPS said a town 15 minutes ahead had ETA 45 minutes in the past. Arizona has #PermanentStandardTime. But the Navajo Nation uses DST. 3 time zone changes back & forth between MST & MDT in 100mi/160km on one road.

"April 8, 2024 solar eclipse HDR image" by Dr Paul Ricker, posted on AstroBin. I was set up a few steps away from where he took the images that went into this composite HDR image at Totality Dallas. https://www.astrobin.com/xumccp/B/ #SolarEclipse2024 #astronomy

"Prominences during April 2024 solar eclipse" is among the amazing photos posted by Dr Paul Ricker of U of Illinois. I met him at #SolarEclipse2024 Totality Dallas. He was set up a few steps from me. He posted on AstroBin: https://www.astrobin.com/dq4i97/ #astronomy #weather

I learned more about interaction of cloud cover and lowering temperature in an eclipse. Cumulus clouds that form from rising air lose energy and may clear in an eclipse, as happened in Mesquite TX for me in #SolarEclipse2024.
Mountains can cause stratus to form or worsen in eclipses. Clouds formed in both annular eclipses I attempted. In Reno NV 2012, Sierra Nevada mountain wave cloud formed. In 2023 north of Roseburg OR, it was overcast and then fog formed at the center. #astronomy #weather