i had hoped to make daily entries for the month leading up to the event but obviously that's fetch
here's the imagery i'm using:
https://www.star.nesdis.noaa.gov/GOES/sector_band.php?sat=G16§or=sp&band=GEOCOLOR&length=24
in the last week we had 1 glorious day where the southern half of totality was in crystal skies, full show from belton south to the border
otherwise it's been pretty abysmal
there was another day where the 2 extremities, clarksville and the radar base, were in the clear, representing a combined 3% of the texas totality path
the only thing going for us at this point is that every day that sucks raises the statistical probability that the 8th won't suck
from the above link, today's shitshow features 3 cloud decks: the low level scud stitched to the edge of the estacado and seemingly frozen over the big country, the mid-level moisture from the gulf moving south to north as it slides east, and the high-altitude jet stream fucking us all the way from goddamn manchuria: