Me, pouring over weather forecasts and maps for months: “Well, as much as I really don’t want to do Texas, they really are going to have the highest likelihood of clear skies to see the solar eclipse. So I guess I’ll go to Dallas, instead of up north where I could visit friends. *grumbles and makes plans*”

Weather forecast this week: “Mexico, Texas, and Arkansas will have clear skies until late Sunday night, where a thick layer of clouds will be moving in for the next couple of days. Meanwhile, all of the northern states will have thin wispy clouds that will burn off into clear skies just in time to get full effect of the eclipse.”

Me: