Twin Lakes Star Party

Anyone going to try and bluff the rain gods and go? At this point only Friday night has any chance of being clear according to the forecast

I spent 3 nights in the rain and clouds at the Almost Heaven SP after 7 hour drive, not sure I am up for more rain, even though this is only a 4 hour drive.

Can someone explain what the effects of an El Nino winter is, more rain I guess?

I have taken all week off, after last week at work even a star party with a little rain beats being at work . I'm in SW Missouri and leaving in the morning, 'bout a 7 hr drive. I hope to meet a few friends that will brave the rain later in the week. I'm bringing the camper and the satellite TV, so I can at least watch some movies and visit if the weather doesn't cooperate. If it's' too muddy for the trailer on the observing field, I'll stay at the state park about 2 mi away. I head back home on Sat. The weather channel forecast looks like the rain might be done tomorrow, until Sat night or Sun. You might as well come out and join the rest of us ducks

Dave Burtrum

They say hindsight is 20/20 and that was definitely the case on the weather this past week. TLSP managed to pull 3 good nights out of 8 scheduled. The first Saturday was a nice clear night. Three days of rain followed with a very good if overly dew riddled night Wednesday. If you were prepared for dew, you could operate all night long. Two more days of rain followed with the skies clearing Friday morning late. The sun did a great job of drying out the field till sunset. We got another all nighter with Friday night. Saturday was looking to be a great night too and many remained set up on the field. We watched a beautiful sunset only to see it marred late with high clouds moving in. By the time it was good and dark, the clouds had made it overhead. We sadly started breaking down and minutes later were chastened with light showers that speeded us up.
The weather forecasts for Oct 14-21 were the most confusing I have ever seen. Each day they radically changed the 24 hour forecast about every 8 hours. I gave up telling people on the field what to expect. We were able to hold the last Saturdays events under cloudy but rain free skies and participants were able to finish packing up under dry conditions. I feel bad only getting 3 good nights, and at the same time fortunate that we got 3. So many partys have been rained out this season. Lets hope conditions improve drastically next year for all of our star partys!
David Paessler
WKAA Treasurer
TLSP Registar