[Morgana]

FReepers it has not started yet am posting before sun rises in the US but thought you all might want the linky.

[TomGuy]

{chuckling}

Weather Channel gal is almost hysterical. Temp there (Oregon) has dropped from 74 to 67 in 20 minutes.

Eclipses cause global cooling!!!! Who’da’thunk’t?

[jimtorr]

Okay, totality come and gone here in Oregon Willamette Valley. Spectacular. Very visible corona, and a red spot or two on the edge of the disk. Light getting brighter rapidly.

[Covenantor]

Any one heard the muslim position regarding their Moon god eclipsing the sun across the breadth of these United States?

Are they taking it as an omen?

Will they get froggy?

[RayChuang88]

I just saw it reach 78% here in Sacramento, CA. Wow, did the sky get noticeably darker (fortunately it was clear skies here).

Best place to watch is the NASA live feed, which is being streamed on YouTube.

[TomGuy]

{chuckling}

Tuned in to local TV stations to see if they were covering this. The ABC affiliate is giving coverage.

ABC has this titled: The Great American Eclipse.

:)

Sort of sounds like MAGA.

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Nearly half of the sun is covered in NW Arkansas. Sort of dim, but not really dark. Expecting about 91% coverage at most and that is about 20 minutes away.

[MasonGal]

We will have about 95% totality here in the southern Indiana/greater Louisville area. Two of our sons went down to the Hopkinsville area to view it. I am amazed at the people who are out celebrating and partying for my last day of being 59. Ha! (I turn 50 tomorrow. Gulp.). Seriously though, it is kind of cool, but I have to admit, some people are really over the top about this.

[proud American in Canada]

It was so nice and refreshing to see the country focused on something positive.

[b4its2late]

This composite image, made from 4 frames, shows the International Space Station, with a crew of six onboard, as it transits the Sun at roughly five miles per second during a partial solar eclipse, Monday, Aug. 21, 2017 from , Northern Cascades National Park in Washington.

[equaviator]

I remember the eclipse in ‘79 and there was nowhere near the hype, hoop-la and mass ‘amazement’ associated with that celestial event compared to today’s. Back then, people found it to be interesting but nothing to get so emotional about.

[who knows what evil?]

100% in Bryson City, NC...clear as a bell...lots of puffy cloud banks on the horizons. One small cloud approaching about ten minutes before totality made a few people nervous, but it evaporated in plenty of time. My wife and I brought along a white sheet to observe the ‘shadow bands’ that appear just before and after totality...very cool. All in all, worth the two-hour ride from East Tennessee.