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This map shows if clouds will block the solar eclipse in your state
Business Insider ^ | Leanna Garfield

Posted on 08/21/2017 12:32:03 AM PDT by cba123

The United States will see a total solar eclipse on August 21 for the first time in decades. Some people are traveling hundreds of miles to cities in the line of totality, like Nashville, Tennessee and Salem, Oregon.

But there is one thing that could put a damper on the event: clouds.

Esri, an international supplier of geographic information system (GIS) software, has created a cloud-cover prediction map for the time of the eclipse in every state. Michael Zeiler, a geographer at Esri, is producing new maps every day leading up to the eclipse.

(the linked article, shows projected skies for the eclipse)

Link to the map, below.

REMEMBER. USE PROPER SHIELDING TO WATCH THE SUN.

REMEMBER. USE PROPER SHIELDING TO WATCH THE SUN.

REMEMBER. USE PROPER SHIELDING TO WATCH THE SUN.


TOPICS: Astronomy; Chit/Chat; Science
KEYWORDS: eclipse; solareclipse; totaleclipse
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To: cba123
Too bad the path of totality won't be over South Florida because right now there is NOT a cloud in the sky. BTW, in the year 2045 Fort Lauderdale will be in the path of totality at the greatest extent of the ECLIPSE. It will last 6m 46s. I hope I am around to see it.

Get a clock widget for your cell phone to tell you the time down to the second so you know when it is SAFE to watch the TOTAL eclipse with naked eye.

21 posted on 08/21/2017 4:52:37 AM PDT by PJ-Comix (It is OK to view the TOTAL Eclipse with the Naked Eye)
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To: Salamander

12 to 14 welding filter is suitable. I’ve got a 5 in my mask and a 9 in the flip up. Total 14. Going to 5 to walk around and add the 9 for viewing.


22 posted on 08/21/2017 5:18:51 AM PDT by CrazyIvan (Fidel and Che are together again, and it ain't on a t-shirt.)
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To: CrazyIvan

Thanks.
I’ll ask him what numbers his masks are.

:)


23 posted on 08/21/2017 8:46:02 AM PDT by Salamander (Where is evil? Often where you least expect it.)
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To: BraveMan

That’s scary that you said that.

We went out for a ride yesterday and I stopped at Lowes on the way home.

Big sign on the door “Eclipse glasses and welding goggles all sold out”.

Himself only has the full masks.

I hate to think that Lowes sold people inadequate goggles, knowingly.


24 posted on 08/21/2017 8:50:53 AM PDT by Salamander (Where is evil? Often where you least expect it.)
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To: PJ-Comix

Nowhere near it.

I’m wondering how many people will record it with their phones and what *that* will do the phone and/or their eyes.


25 posted on 08/21/2017 8:53:41 AM PDT by Salamander (Where is evil? Often where you least expect it.)
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To: rawcatslyentist; Salamander

Or the paper ‘projector’. We made the camera, and also these these with foil in the middle for the pinhole, but this one doesn’t even seem to use that:

https://www.theverge.com/2017/8/9/16109520/how-to-diy-pinhole-projector-solar-eclipse-cardboard-paper-budget-safe


26 posted on 08/21/2017 9:15:34 AM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: cba123

It was bright and clear her on the Jersey Shore until about an hour ago. Now 70-80% cloud cover.


27 posted on 08/21/2017 11:04:59 AM PDT by JimRed ( TERM LIMITS, NOW! Building the Wall! TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH.)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

I looked through some glasses, it was neat and the sky got a funny shade to it but it didn’t get totally dark I was in 97% coverage area. I have seen cloudy days where it was darker, yet the sky did have a different hue to it all around.


28 posted on 08/21/2017 12:07:45 PM PDT by sarge83
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To: Jamestown1630

Hubby finally got around to putting the extra glass in the welding mask.

Hopefully I will not be blind tomorrow.

[the extra was a “9” plus whatever was already in the helmet]


29 posted on 08/21/2017 12:10:11 PM PDT by Salamander (Where is evil? Often where you least expect it.)
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To: CrazyIvan

He added a 9 to whatever was in the mask.

Hopefully I will not be training the dogs for seeing eye, tomorrow.

:)


30 posted on 08/21/2017 12:16:55 PM PDT by Salamander (Where is evil? Often where you least expect it.)
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To: Salamander

I think you’re near me; it’s not that spectacular, but the light really gets strange and lovely.

I actually prefer lunar eclipses - you can comfortably watch the whole thing. Next one is January, 2019.


31 posted on 08/21/2017 12:17:23 PM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: Jamestown1630
I went out and noticed the odd lighting and then these nifty little crescents everywhere.

[I call this "Partial Eclipse, With Podengo"].

:D

32 posted on 08/21/2017 12:21:59 PM PDT by Salamander (Where is evil? Often where you least expect it.)
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To: Salamander

How cool is that!


33 posted on 08/21/2017 12:23:29 PM PDT by caww
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To: Salamander

That little one is almost camouflaged——a little bit of white here,a little bit of white there————.

.


34 posted on 08/21/2017 12:24:36 PM PDT by Mears
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To: sarge83
...”the sky did have a different hue to it all around”...

Here even the air felt very different....am glad I was in that moment. Words like eerie, strange, odd, and the like has been defined by many.

35 posted on 08/21/2017 12:27:14 PM PDT by caww
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To: Salamander

Cute doggie.

We saw the crescents, too; oak trees seem to make good ones.


36 posted on 08/21/2017 12:45:28 PM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: caww

Pics like that are popping up all over FB.
Every different type of tree foliage seems to produce unique patterns.
Way cool!


37 posted on 08/21/2017 12:50:01 PM PDT by Salamander (Where is evil? Often where you least expect it.)
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To: Mears

That is Gypsy, my Portuguese Podengo Medio rescue.

She’s a little Velociraptor at heart so camo suits her.

:D


38 posted on 08/21/2017 12:51:20 PM PDT by Salamander (Where is evil? Often where you least expect it.)
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To: Jamestown1630

A friend in Florida posted one through palm tree fronds.

It was *art*.

:)


39 posted on 08/21/2017 12:52:15 PM PDT by Salamander (Where is evil? Often where you least expect it.)
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To: Jamestown1630
One through Sycamore.


40 posted on 08/21/2017 12:53:31 PM PDT by Salamander (Where is evil? Often where you least expect it.)
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