Grand total: 9 Leonids... If not for the clouds, it would have been a great show. See below for the story.

2002/11/17 18:45--18:55 (EST) Clouds 50%, hazy. Limit magnitude about 3. No meteor observed in this 10 minutes.

19:37--19:44 Even more clouds. No meteor.

21:45--22:45 Predicted first peak. High clouds all over the sky. Initially several bright stars were barely visible through the clouds. Then clouds started to cover every star, including Saturn. Saw no meteor in 1 hour. The only interesting thing is a very nice 22-degree halo around the moon . Partially made up for a boring session.

11/18 5:30 Predicted second peak. Woke up and amazingly there was a cloud hole directly above! I could see about 10% of the sky, with 5 stars in the Big Dipper, alpha and gamma Leonids, Jupiter, and alpha and beta Geminorum. The average limit magnitude in the cloud clearing is about 2. Between 5:35 and 5:44, I counted 8 bright Leonids, all white / greenish, magnitude estimated to be between 2 and -2. Some left trails for a second that were visible even through the clouds. Also saw a bright satellite moving north->south from Gemini into Cancer, which turns out to be Iridium 11. Then clouds rolled in and all stars were gone except Jupiter, which was quite dim. Even then I saw a long Leonids through the thick clouds, overshine Jupiter. With a total of 9 and more clouds, I decided to retreat to the car. Then I tried to listen for Leonids with car radio, no luck.