[Chaos-l] Some New Information From The Folks At Pettigrew

[walter fowler]

The local TV weather last night made it look like Friday night might
actually be between storms and I was thinking about driving down on Fri.
afternoon and coming back Sat afternoon if it was getting cloudy again.  I
don't really want to be the only one down there, though.  It reminds me of
the recent mountaineering article in Outside magazine about 3 guys huddling
in their tent at 20,000 ft.  "This is great.  At least we're starving ... At
least we're freezing."  At least it's raining!  I'm putting off a final
decision until the last minute but would be more likely to give it a shot if
I had a rider or if I knew someone else was going.  As extra incentive, I
would bring my 5x PowerMate.  Walter

On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 11:15 PM, Michael Hrivnak <mhrivnak at hrivnak.org>wrote:

>  I think it's safe to say that we're not going anywhere on Thursday. If
> current models prove accurate (they haven't been changing much the last
> couple of days), we will be washed out until Sunday. It is possible that
> Sunday through Wednesday will be favorable, but we'll have to wait a bit
> longer to find out.
>
> I suppose I had this coming, considering that my first star party ever
> (MASP 2008) was 6 straight nights of perfectly clear weather.
>
> I am watching the forecast like a hawk. Stay tuned!
>
> Michael
>
>  On Monday 23 March 2009 16:54:07 Mark South wrote:
>
> > This is bumming me out!
>
> >
>
> > Sent from my cell
>
> >
>
> > On Mar 23, 2009, at 2:28 PM, Michael Hrivnak <mhrivnak at hrivnak.org>
>
> >
>
> > wrote:
>
> > > It's looking pretty grim indeed. I'm personally willing to drive up
>
> > > to an
>
> > > entire day to get somewhere with clear weather, but the current maps
>
> > > show
>
> > > rain literally over the entire eastern half of the country from
>
> > > Wednesday
>
> > > night through Sunday. Hopefully things will improve. I've got my
>
> > > eye out
>
> > > for a backup location if one can be found, in case anyone else is
>
> > > willing to
>
> > > drive quite a distance to get clear skies.
>
> > >
>
> > > If you have any equipment sitting around unused, perhaps this is a
>
> > > good time
>
> > > to put it up for sale! Maybe that has the opposite effect of buying
>
> > > new
>
> > > stuff?
>
> > >
>
> > > Michael
>
> > >
>
> > > On Monday 23 March 2009 08:44:43 Robert Nielsen wrote:
>
> > >> Everyone,
>
> > >>
>
> > >> Time to start making burnt offerings to the appropriate astronomy god
>
> > >> (or lighting candles to the proper patron saint) ... since the
>
> > >> weather
>
> > >> doesn't look like it wants to cooperate fully this weekend.
>
> > >> Currently,
>
> > >> weather.com thinks there will be showers and thunderstorms Wed
>
> > >> through
>
> > >> Sun of this week at Creswell, NC.
>
> > >>
>
> > >> Since the staff at Pettigrew said that they would try to hold a "rain
>
> > >> date" on Sunday night if Saturday didn't pan out (I'm still hoping it
>
> > >> will), I will probably still be prepared to go Sun through Tues or
>
> > >> even
>
> > >> Wed of the following week if it comes to that. But I'm still hoping
>
> > >> that the jet stream shifts or winds blow more favorably so that we
>
> > >> can
>
> > >> all get together. Let's hope for clear skies!
>
> > >>
>
> > >> Robert
>
> > >>
>
> > >> PS. Oh yeah ... no one is allowed to buy any astronomy-related stuff
>
> > >> this week ...
>
>
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