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However, after watching the patterns these last two weeks, I now expect to drive out along the Mulligan Highway the evening before the eclipse, stay beside the car through the night, and photograph the eclipse from 60km inland, at the end of that long straight stretch of road just before the Mulligan Highway turns to the north.
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Good call Phil. For the week or so you've been analysing this, and from watching the webcams, it does seem like in general the coast has low fast moving clouds, while inland is often clearer. The low fast moving clouds are very difficult to escape, and may be very much down to luck.
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here is this mornings cloud but a woefull prediction forthe 14 - i hope thats wrong
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It's been said before, but I'll say it again - there's basically no point in even worry about this now, even for comic value. The only forecast that matters is the one the night of the 13th, or anything else you can obtain throughout the night. Even 2-3 days out it will be interesting, but still useless. During previous eclipses, expert eclipse meteorologist Jay Anderson has often provided commentary on weather and model predictions from around 7 days out from the eclipse. On at least more than one occasion, I recall the forecast for E-day being dire, but then 2 days before all the models changed and the forecast was good! If anything, I would probably prefer a "bad" forecast this far out, under the assumption that it will be wrong :-)
Geoff