ELNikkor wrote:
However you get there, it is worth it to get to the centerline! I drove my family 800 miles to get to Southern Illinois for the 2017 eclipse. I think we had around 4 minutes of totality, but it was was worth it! As a coincidence, the same place we were for the 2017 eclipse, is in the centerline for the 2024 eclipse, but we won't have to drive there. Thanks to celestial circumstances, the eclipse is going right over our patio here just west of Rochester, NY, lucky us!
The centerline is about 100’ off shore of our camp in Henderson Bay. The afternoon sun is high in the sky with a clear shot free of trees. I had removed a couple of trees to facilitate a wall to prevent erosion during record high water levels. They were ash which are going to dye anyway.
Now what do you suppose the odds of a clear sky are? I take comfort in the notion that sky is more likely to be clear over Lake Ontario.