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Just wondering if any of you on BE here in the US will be watching the solar eclipse on Monday? I am in North East Ohio (Cleveland suburbs) and supposedly in the "path of totality." My grandchildren are very excited (especially one of them who just loves science) so I am hoping for good weather so we can get a great view of it. Here in Cleveland, you just never know the weather in early April. It could be sunny and 70 degrees or it could snow! I am keeping my fingers crossed that it is nice!

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I am in England so will miss it. Here’s a pretty informative page about the eclipse from my college, St. Lawrence University in Canton, NY. According to the forecast for the 8th, Canton is looking good for sunshine that day.

https://www.stlawu.edu/total-solar-eclipse-2024

St Lawrence is fortunate in having Aileen O’Donaghue on the Physics faculty. She is an astronomer, and an absolute superstar teacher. She features on the above page, there’s a video of her near the top.

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Very informative! Thank you!

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ill watch a livestream on youtube from the uk when it happens

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I believe some of my family members back in the UK plan on doing that.

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Well, just remember - it’s a rolling event, fortunately! It will happen at a specific time, all that way along the corridor through the US and Canada. I know that my friend & colleague Aileen O’Donaghue’s livestream starting at 15:18 EST from Canton, NY, will be a good one. (See my link in an earlier post, toward the bottom of the page.)

I think it’s between about 11:00 (Texas) and about 16:00 (Newfoundland) but I don’t know whether that’s local time or EST??

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Lots of people in the Southern USA states are going to be very disappointed, they are expecting 'The Rapture' where they will all be transported to 'Heaven'.

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I doubt it, as that didn't happen (neither the rapture, nor AFAIK, the disappointment :rolleyes:) during the 2017 eclipse which cut across the bible belt - Kentucky, Tennessee, Georgia, and North & South Carolina.
Not I. I had originally, prior to 2017, planned on two trips to the two US eclipses, however, after taking Little Miss P to see the one in 2017, driving south into SC to see it, I have to say I found the experience somewhat underwhelming. I think it was because, on an otherwise sunny day but with maybe 30% cloud cover of large fluffy white clouds, the total eclipse shadow where we had positioned ourselves, was fairly well illuminated by light reflected from the clouds that were not in the eclipse shadow. So while it did get noticeably cooler during the eclipse, it was nowhere near as dark as I had expected.

As secondary considerations, we are a lot further from the track of the 2024 eclipse (a good 10 hour drive away, or more), and Little Miss P will be at school; she was on summer break in 2017.

That said, Little Miss P's school rules during the (partial) eclipse are bizarre, and illogical because of their inconsistency. [1] Students are all being issued with eclipse glasses, but [2] they are not allowed outside during the (partial) eclipse, which covers part of their lunch break. [3] If they need to go outside, for example to move between classes (the campus comprises several separate buildings) they are not allowed to look at the sun - did I mention they will all have eclipse glasses? :rolleyes: And [4] the school is fairly modern, with most of the class rooms and other buildings/ indoor areas, having many windows, so you don't need to be outside to see the sun anyway! All things considered, and given the obvious concerns for student safety, I am puzzled as to why they didn't just close the school for a day, especially as they have only used one single snow/ weather day so far this school year. :confused:

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That is weird! All the schools here are closed (in the Cleveland area) as we are in the path of totality. It isn't an extra day off - the schools here usually get Easter Monday and they didn't last week but chose to close tomorrow instead. I am hoping we don't have much cloud and it is worth seeing. My 10 year old grandson is so excited (said he won't be able to sleep tonight)! I would hate him to be disappointed! He just loves science. I didn't actually see the eclipse in 2017 - it was just a partial eclipse and I wasn't organized enough to get my glasses. We all have our glasses now so are ready! Lots of events on for the kids in the various suburbs and downtown Cleveland at the science museum. Apparently the hotels are all fully booked (although that may have something to do with the Final 4 basketball championship playing here this weekend).

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Not sure what the status is for MS with the eclipse. Are we full or partial. I've no plans to watch it.

I did see the one in 2017 and like Pulaski it was viewed through large fluffy white clouds. At my age, eclipses mean little and bear the "been there, seen that" logan.

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It's already getting darker here in Dallas/Ft Worth. The "partial" eclipse starts in about 5 minutes. I don't have any glasses (apparently complaining for a week about not having any glasses does NOT make them magically appear) so I won't go outside to look at it. Traffic was light this morning so it looks like a lot of people are staying home from work today. I was invited to a couple of eclipse parties but I'm not going to waste my precious PTO on a puffed up excuse for daytime/weekday drinking. I'll end up watching it on TV I'm sure.

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Looking at a partial eclipse.
https://cimg3.ibsrv.net/gimg/british...be9bda3cb.jpeg

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Same here. Already looks like sunset rather than mid-day.

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here in Toronto ...ready & waiting, looking to take a selfie of it

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Apparently, the track of the TOTAL eclipse is about 100 miles wide. Looking at the maps, Dallas is in the total eclipse band, but nowhere in the state of Mississippi is. My town, Canton, NY, is right in the band as is Burlington, VT.

This article has several maps. https://www.livescience.com/space/th...pse-on-april-8

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My wife is in the meadow with the neighbors. She’s really spooked. And, I think it’s still 40 minutes till totality there. Apparently a bit of cloud but mostly clear ..

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Sky News (as viewed in UK) has dedicated the next few hours to the eclipse, a complete mix of stuff, it's a fun watch so far.

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She just sent this, eclipse tailgate party …. :lol:


https://cimg8.ibsrv.net/gimg/british...b525ea2a3.jpeg

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Wow. That got darker than I expected. Not completely black-out but all of the street lights and automatic outside lights came on and you could see the stars. I got out there right after the "total" eclipse but it was still pretty dark and, yes, some glasses magically appeared for me to use --- as it should be. :rofl:

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sounds impressive

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People in the south just used it as an excuse for a 3 day weekend.

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Just watching the livestream from home. Totally amazing, completely dark. Students freaking out. You could see the corona.

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One more time :fingerscrossed:

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My wife used to say similar about mountains. "seen one, seen them all" :lol:

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Yeah, I'm hearing from people who were outside of the city (light pollution) and they said it went dark as night.

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It was absolutely amazing! Saw the corona around the sun - probably will never see such a thing in my life time again (I am old)!!!!!

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You/ they were lucky. I didn't get that experience at all in 2017, despite being near the center line of the shadow. It was quite the anticlimax. :(

I believe it was because there were too many large fluffy white clouds in the area, reflecting sunlight into the eclipse shadow.

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2086 is apparently the next one in that area.

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I definitely won't be around for that one!!!

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Saw multiple eclipses on my television at home ! What was most impressive was a video from the ISS showing the moons shadow moving across the east coast, I don't think I've seen that before.

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It was like some of those time lapse things you see.
Like the sun lowering, getting dark and then sun rising.

Except it was a funny sort of light and dark. Not "night" dark and I could still make out the shadow of my house roof on the grass at he back. I stood on the deck and some birds in the tree were going crazy.

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Did you have a clear view of the sun ?

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No special glasses so I wasn't going to look.

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I was actually on my way back to PA from Montreal the day of the eclipse. I managed to see it in Calcium NY which was in the area of totality. I had the glasses to watch it all so it was very cool seeing it happen and seeing how dark it was during totality. Only downside was the insane traffic because of that going home afterwards. Didn't get home until well after midnight!

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The best bit was when one of the ABC reporters told the camera man to turn the light on as it was too dark for people to see.

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Some friends were at Love's Travel Stop/Chester's Chicken an it was a big party. Most of the workers and customers were in the parking lot with their glasses but when it got too dark, all of the automatic floodlights came on and messed it up.:eek: Apparently it was still good though and they were awestruck by the total eclipse.

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It was just cloudy here in the northwest. Some people a few hundred miles away from me got enough of a break in the clouds to see a bit of sun with a small chunk taken out, but I didn't see anything.

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It's not so bad if you didn't have to travel, must be hard for those folks who made a major trip to try and see it. I think even parts of Texas were clouded over.