Originally Posted by
InTheAirGuy
My plan was Ft Erie but latest guidance isn't great.
PivotalWeather has a great site of ensemble forecasts, regularly upated.
https://www.pivotalweather.com/eclipse2024/
I'm thinking Montreal, but its on the edge and only about 1 minute 25 seconds of totality (compared to 4 minutes Buffalo) ... and to get south of there will involve horrendous traffic.
Kingston via Via is an option.
Moving this conversation to the lounge thread.
My original plan was to take a flight along the eclipse belt during the eclipse so that I wouldn't worry about cloud. Then I soon realized that the delay and flight plan were much more difficult to predict than weather.
I never considered Niagara Falls, because I knew it would be crowded. I considered the southern edge of the Niagara Peninsula, and the north shore of Lake Erie in general, anywhere from Chatham-Kent to Fort Erie. Lots of open fields and not many people would go to places like Pelee Island or Port Colborne. Then I once I found out the weather wouldn't be ideal for Southern Ontario, I decided to go to Quebec. My current plan is staying in Montreal and move to either Sherbrooke or somewhere between Cornwall and Kingston on April 8. The traffic will likely be pretty bad on the Champlain Bridge and Jacques-Cartier Bridge, but I doubt many people will be using the Mercier Bridge or the A30 bridge, not to mention the ferry to Sorel-Tracy.