(meteorobs) Eclipse Weather Outlook: a big change!

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Tue Oct 26 11:57:26 EDT 2004


       Some radical changes in the weather outlook for tomorrow night's lunar 
eclipse.  Although a large ridge of high pressure is still expected to be 
centered just east of James Bay in Canada on Wednesday night, the disturbance 
that until now has been progged to be over Midwest and lower Lakes region, now 
appears to be a bit more vigorous than earlier expected.  It is now projected to 
be somewhere over the Virginias, with showers now possible over parts of West 
Virginia, western and central portions of Virginia and the Carolinas.  
Considerable mid-level cloudiness could stretch as far east as the Delmarva 
Peninsula and the middle-Atlantic coastal plain.

       What this means so far as the weather in the Northeast US is 
concerned, is that at eclipse time a swath of high-to-mid level cloudiness may very 
well cover much of Pennsylvania, New Jersey, the southern half of New York State 
and southern New England.  

       Meanwhile, dry and mainly clear weather appears to be a good bet to 
the north of a Rochester, NY-Albany, NY-Boston, MA line. If the high pressure 
cell in Canada is stronger than forecast, this clear-line might end up a bit 
more to the south.

       Conversely . . . if the disturbance over the Virginias turns out to be 
more aggressive, clouds could spread even farther to the north . . . perhaps 
up through central and northern New England.

       The good news is reserved for folks over the nation's midsection and 
lower Great Lakes: what looked like a grim and overcast night for Wednesday now 
appears to be trending toward a clearing pattern.  In fact, they might even 
glimpse the eclipsed Moon in St. Louis area during Game 4 of the World Series 
on Wednesday night.

-- joe rao
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