Annular Eclipse of 10 June 2002

... in which we go in search of yet another celestial alignment.

1. A discussion of the weather along the path

2. Maps
            A map of global mean cloud cover for June (in the daytime)
            Indonesia: Sulawesi, where the track begins
            Indonesia: two interesting islands along the way
            Northern Marianas: Tinian and Saipan
            Mexico: near Puerto Vallarta where sunset ends the show

3 Tables of a few weather statistics along the route.
 

The above material is not intended for publication anywhere and is made available for use within the eclipse-chasing community. Suggestions for improving the content or additional information that you might want can be forwarded to me. I have no objections to the reproduction of this material, but idle curiousity makes me ask that you let me know about it.

Better quality maps can be made up, though the ones here are relatively high in resolution (and size). If you would like them for publication or a similar purpose, let me know and I'll see what I can do.

Some acknowledgements:
 

• Fred Espenak provided the eclipse track data - see his web pages for lots more eclipse stuff...
• maps come from the Digital Chart of the World, via ArcView
• comments about local terrain, travel and sightseeing come from the Web and whatever I can read in the bookstore while standing in the aisles (and sometimes my own experiences)
• weather statistics come mostly from the International Station Meteorological Climate Summary (1996), with a number of other diverse sources accumulated over the past two decades
• cloud cover statistics come from the Satellite Active Archive, by way of Excel and Surfer and a useful shareware spreadsheet called GS-Calc.
• Environment Canada provided me with meteorological experience over the past 30 years

Jay Anderson

jander@cc.umanitoba.ca