Chasing a Second Blackout

It was always likely to be cloudy. We knew that going in. According to the climatology odds, we had only a 1-in-3 chance of clear skies for viewing the eclipse. And the Thousand Islands region in early April? Well, if it wasn’t freezing cold and raining, at least it would be cloudy and windy.

The thing is, the weather forecasts beginning the week before had been shockingly great. Sunny, with highs in the mid-50s, was the proclamation. Surely, the weather folks can do accurate 7-day predictions, can’t they? Maybe. But, as the week advanced, the forecast back-tracked a little worse with each update. “Sunny” became “mostly sunny”, which became “partly cloudy”, which digressed to “mostly cloudy”, which was shortened to just “cloudy” to save pixels.