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I'd been watching weather and cloud forecasts for days. Central Texas was supposed to have the greatest chance of clear skies for the whole US, but like Hawai'i in 1991 the usual pattern reversed. This time though, with the Web and better forecasting tools, I had some (sinking) notion of what was going on.

I saved a lot of screenshots like this, ultimately tossed most of them, but this one illustrates what I was seeing on Friday evening, 2.5 days before totality.

E_CloudForecast.png (307 Kb) (under photos/24/0405-13_EclipseArkansas/0405_SouthToNM/)

By Alan Silverstein, ajs@frii.com (page updated Sun Mar 9 14:33:54 MDT 2025)