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t1_j23nb14 wrote

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Some times that's worse. I knew about it in advance: 100% cloud cover...

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t1_j23xgo2 wrote

Dude I live right in the path of the upcoming solar eclipse. At least I know when it will be cloudy a couple years from now

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t1_j24ywxe wrote

Oh man. I lived right on the edge of totality during the last eclipse. There is a town about an hour away that was dead in the center. Hotels were booked solid over a year in advance. People came from all over the world. It got completely rained out.

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t1_j24z3tx wrote

Edge of Totality is definitely the name of my band.

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t1_j24zp7r wrote

Funny it's the name of my sex tape.

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t1_j25bid3 wrote

We were dead center in Western Neb and it was perfectly clear. Most incredible experience of my life outside of the birth of my child.

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t1_j26bcea wrote

They should have offered a rain check and scheduled it for another day!

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t1_j262lmm wrote

Yeah, I’m in the northeast US and I’m 100% committed to seeing totality in 2024 (weather permitting lol).

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t1_j27hkp7 wrote

If you’re in the Midwest, you may want to head to Texas or Mexico. Clouds, right?

We got a place east of Dallas for that auspicious day. Hoping for clear skies.

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t1_j23snkx wrote

Local forecast for the night of the Geminid is the same for me. I need a new hobby.

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t1_j24ebzc wrote

When's the best time to witness a meteor shower?

January, between 1 and 3 am. In the bitter, cloudy cold.

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t1_j25jrgv wrote

You know it. Bundle up in half your clothes, grab a hot non-alcoholic drink (alcohol lowers body temp), get a lawn chair, and enjoy the show.

Brag to your friends the next day about your commitment. :-)

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t1_j27x0tn wrote

Yeah, but the alcoholic drinks make the showers more fun. 😉

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t1_j23u9mi wrote

I frequently look at my telescope and think, should have bought a piano 🤣🤣🤣🤣

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t1_j24w4p4 wrote

I know how you feel. My wife got me a brand new telescope for my birthday this year. A couple of weeks later I read about the "last lunar eclipse on the east coast of the US for years" and it was happening at a time and place I'd be able to see it! With my new telescope! I got up around 4am, checked out the sky - full moon, clear sky, absolutely beautiful. Another hour until the eclipse... So I used the bathroom, went back inside.

When it was time for the eclipse,... Completely overcast. And it stayed that way until dawn. Ugh.

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t1_j23u83m wrote

I didn’t know about it in advance but I don’t feel so bad since there was cloud cover for me too

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t1_j24e0qw wrote

One time there was supposed to be a rocket launch I could see from my house which hasn't happened in decades and they cancelled it due to weather and moved it somewhere else.

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t1_j25f20i wrote

Or the phenomenons happen at like 3:57am when I’m dead asleep and don’t feel like going out in 20° weather

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t1_j25gm59 wrote

My summer was like that, all the actual clear nights had shit going on in the wee hours. And in several cases I slept on my couch in the failed hope of "staying up"

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t1_j26pce2 wrote

Its been raining here for like a week straight, but the article did say this last happened in june…

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t1_j254w9p wrote

Saaaaame. I have also never seen a lunar eclipse in person, such is my luck with cloud cover.

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t1_j25chg1 wrote

That had been every sky event in the past 20 years for me. I feel like I am cursed.

Amazing meteor shower? Overcast. Comet? Raining. Lunar eclipse? Sorry, it's cloudy tonight. Solar eclipse? Lol, cloudy again.

Wanna see all the planets in the sky with your naked eye? Syke!

I'll just look at all the awesome pictures everyone else is taking.

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t1_j241qps wrote

Weather has nothing to do with knowing in advance

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t1_j250s96 wrote

Whoa, you're telling me that knowledge of a thing doesn't inexplicably alter the outcome? That can't possibly be right...

If you knew about it ahead of time, got excited about it, then couldn't see anything due to clouds, you'd be pretty disappointed. In that case, it would be less disappointing if you hadn't known about it at all.

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