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!

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.

Very informative! Thank you!

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

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

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??

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'.

I doubt it, as that didn't happen (neither the rapture, nor AFAIK, the disappointment ) 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? 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.

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).

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.

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.

Looking at a partial eclipse.

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

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

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