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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: Jamestown1630
And the palm tree.


41 posted on 08/21/2017 12:54:57 PM PDT by Salamander (Where is evil? Often where you least expect it.)
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To: Salamander

Those are great! A girl in my office was so tickled by those crescents, she took lots of pics - I had told her it would happen, but she was surprised (I hadn’t known about this - just learned about it here on FR a couple of days ago. :-)


42 posted on 08/21/2017 1:00:40 PM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: Jamestown1630

I had no clue such things existed.

Outside just looked ‘odd’ so I took the dogs out and there they were and I thought “WTH is that? Ooooh....wait...crescents from the eclipse!”

Thank God I’m smarter than I look and made a good wild guess before I missed them.

:D


43 posted on 08/21/2017 1:30:24 PM PDT by Salamander (Where is evil? Often where you least expect it.)
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To: Salamander
Steady heavy cloud cover here.

There was some slight darkening and the insects went nuts but not much else to see.

I wish it would rain and get it over with.

44 posted on 08/21/2017 1:32:36 PM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear (Not a Romantic, not a hero worshiper and stop trying to tug my heartstrings. It tickles! (pink bow))
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To: Vendome
No rabbits but I do see a moose.

Happily I have no sisters for him to bite.

And if he wants to bite my SILs I would advise him to make sure his shots were up to date.

45 posted on 08/21/2017 1:35:19 PM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear (Not a Romantic, not a hero worshiper and stop trying to tug my heartstrings. It tickles! (pink bow))
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To: Harmless Teddy Bear

:(

Sorry.

It was not a huge deal for those of us with only partial eclipses.


46 posted on 08/21/2017 1:41:16 PM PDT by Salamander (Where is evil? Often where you least expect it.)
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To: Salamander
Still would have been cool to see.

Oh, well I get to see all the neat pictures that other people took.

47 posted on 08/21/2017 1:54:56 PM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear (Not a Romantic, not a hero worshiper and stop trying to tug my heartstrings. It tickles! (pink bow))
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To: Harmless Teddy Bear

I’d been watching the NASA coverage of it, mostly.

Saw lots of eclipse pics but what I *wanted* to see was the world going dark at midday.

They didn’t really bother with that and in that, I am very disappointed.


48 posted on 08/21/2017 2:03:37 PM PDT by Salamander (Where is evil? Often where you least expect it.)
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To: Salamander

It was cool, I’m at Harrah’s in Cherokee. Very surreal, dark as night and the corona was weird, bright red spot on the upper right but generally white fading out almost misty looking, there were two spikes like wings on either side. Live band, pretty decent actually, they broke into Black Hole Sun just as totality arrived and the large crowd gathered cheered and roared. When it started coming back the light was like nothing so much as an arc welder. Very piercing.


49 posted on 08/21/2017 2:11:02 PM PDT by RegulatorCountry
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To: RegulatorCountry

OMG that sounds awesome!


50 posted on 08/21/2017 2:37:51 PM PDT by Salamander (Where is evil? Often where you least expect it.)
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To: Salamander

I’ll post some pics when we get back, traffic is awful.


51 posted on 08/21/2017 2:46:50 PM PDT by RegulatorCountry
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To: sarge83

I was in about 83 percent coverage. As the coverage approached maximum, the light started to dim to a point where it seemed like I was wearing sunglasses, but I wasn’t. Also, the shadows from the power lines looked as funny as hell.

I was out on a walk, and when I got back to my house, about the same time maximum coverage occurred, things seemed cool and dim inside, and this was with the sun shining through the skylights.


52 posted on 08/21/2017 4:02:41 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (April 2006 Message from Dan http://www.dansimmons.com/news/message/2006_04.htm)
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To: Salamander

Great picture! I took a few up those with my camera phone, but it seemed that I could see all those crescents with my own eyes better than the camera could.

I took my aging Mom out on our back deck during maximum coverage (about 83 percent) and had her look at the crescent sun through my No. 14 arc welder’s filter.


53 posted on 08/21/2017 4:04:46 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (April 2006 Message from Dan http://www.dansimmons.com/news/message/2006_04.htm)
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To: Jamestown1630; Salamander

Pinhole effect, with the shade trees effectively creating images of the sun and throwing them everywhere.


54 posted on 08/21/2017 4:06:28 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (April 2006 Message from Dan http://www.dansimmons.com/news/message/2006_04.htm)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

The patterns the sun made under the trees were really beautiful. Someone showed me photos of her friend and dog, under trees - a big crescent moon on doggie’s forehead, and a big one on the lady’s cheek.

We didn’t even think of trying to get pics of the moon ‘on us’ ;-)


55 posted on 08/21/2017 4:13:09 PM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: Jamestown1630

oops! Those were picks of crescent SUN!


56 posted on 08/21/2017 4:14:04 PM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: Salamander
Eclipse pics from yesterday at Harrah's Cherokee:

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57 posted on 08/22/2017 9:16:57 AM PDT by RegulatorCountry
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To: RegulatorCountry

Thank you!!!


58 posted on 08/22/2017 11:32:36 AM PDT by Salamander (Where is evil? Often where you least expect it.)
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