Posted on 04/08/2024 10:14:38 AM PDT by caww
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We lucked out in DFW, while there were some clouds, we could see the eclipse clearly.
Upstate NY here. It went dark similar to nighttime for about 3-4 minutes then started getting light again. Was very overcast anyhow here. For all the money they lost shutting down the businesses today, I’m pretty sure they didn’t make it up in tourism dollars.
We had cloud bands here the sun would peek thru. ...but then it got strangely dim moment by moment. Never went total dark though.
The moment the total solar eclipse shrouded Niagara Falls in darkness
https://rumble.com/v4o9t7e-the-moment-the-total-solar-eclipse-shrouded-niagara-falls-in-darkness.html
NIAGARA FALLS...........slowly I turned....step...by...step...inch....by....inch.....
Both, once in every 20 year events.
We also enjoyed it from our own backyard.
Did not know that when I moved home/DFW
in 21 I would get to see a totally eclipse in 24.
What a nice surprise.
I went to Idaho in 17 but this was better.
Looking forward to the storm starting tonight.
I no longer miss the thunder.
I hear it all the time now.
Use a mirror.
I recently found out how vampires shave, because they can’t see themselves in a mirror. They find a partner vampire and shave each other.
lol!!!
Thanks for all the good links today.
New uses for old phone books. Make address books out of them by crossing out all of the names of people you don’t know.
Good stuff.
It grew dim here and cooled off a lot.
The eclipse is racist. It turns black and then back to white.
Turned out to be a lot of fun and we watched it on and off for two hours; we shared a pair of glasses back and forth. Very dramatic! Temps dropped about 8 degrees while it was going on, and it seemed kind of ‘hazy’ as far as the light goes.
Glad I got to see it, though we were far from being able to see the total eclipse.
I started watching about 1:15 pm Central and it was over for us a bit before 3pm. Pretty cool! :)
(SW corner of Wisconsin)
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My family and I probably could have made it to Carbondale, IL, but I was a bit afraid we might not make it due to all the traffic. So I settled for a spot near the Ohio River in far (really far) Western KY. It was pegged for 3:06 of totality, at a Wildlife Management Area shoreside of a lake with a large cleared area to the west. (grain fields to attract waterfowl) All sorts of spots had modest groupings of cars and people — we went on to the small primitive (very) campground beside the lake and there were maybe 100 people there. I parked @ the edge and we walked about 50 yards to a spot with good bank access and no people. I laid out a small tarp for wifey and daughter-san to sit on, cast in a line for bluegill, and we settled in about 20 minutes B4 totality. Conditions were great - just a few thin high cirrus clouds, 75 deg., light wind.
This eclipse got noticeably darker than the one in 2017, in which totality lasted only a little over 2 minutes for us. The fall of darkness seemed more rapid and dramatic too, and the 360 deg. sunset was more evident too. Some dude back @ the group of cars started yelling “Sacrifice! Sacrifice!” just as the “diamond ring” effect winked out. Had to chuckle at that. Less the sunlight, it definitely felt cooler. After some “wows!” and hoots for the 1st 15 seconds or so of darkness, things quieted down, until cheering started when the “diamond ring” reappeared. Back to the eclipse glasses... I took my last look about 30 minutes after totality ended, and we headed back home. A few people stuck around, I imagine to the very end (and one couple stayed to fish more), but my wife’s allergies were really firing up. :-(
All in all, yes, pretty cool indeed! It’d have been fun to watch it as part of a big crowd*, but, this was a “guaranteed we can get there”, and no traffic to fight afterward either. The joke in the area has been “5 hours to get to Carbondale from Chicago, but 15 hours if you are leaving Carbondale for Chicago right after the eclipse!”
*I wonder what the biggest crowd was? 50k were reported at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway.
The dimming of the sunlight IS quite weird to sense, as it has a grayish quality, devoid of the “warmer” colors of a normal sunrise or sunset.
Done: saw 100% here.
Corona ring.
Noticed nothing super unusual in nature.
Birds did tree roost shortly.
(Been through much darker thunderstorms)
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