April 8, 2024 Total Solar Eclipse Report: An AWESOME experience
I had been looking forward to the total solar eclipse of April 8, 2024 for years. I was able to share this experience with some very important and close people in my life. My daughter, parents and brother-in-law started out the morning at my home in The Colony, Texas. We could have seen the total eclipse from around there, but I preferred (and my group agreed) to be out in the countryside or a smaller town to be out in nature and to have less traffic congestion to escape from clouds. Looking at the forecast for later that day on the various weather models, and looking at the satellite loops, we decided to head east. We stopped in McKinney to assess the situation. It was mostly cloudy above us, and there was a layer of thicker clouds on the south horizon, moving toward us. But behind the layer of thick clouds was a large clearing on the satellite loop. That was our target. So we headed east for a while and stopped in another town (Princeton). At this point, we were starting to be conc