I’ve never experienced a solar eclipse before (the one from a few years back was barley noticable in my neck of the woods), but I naively thought that 85% coverage would translate to something approaching dusk. Turns out the noonday sun is so strong that even reduced to a sliver of itself, it still looked like afternoon — at least, before the cloudcover moved in. There was a significant drop in temperature and some atypical birdsong, but nothing out of the way. Had I been buried under a rock somewhere and not known about the eclipse, I wouldn’t have regarded it as anything more than a heavy cloud system moving in. As it was, watching the shadow of the moon (through the glasses) grow over the “great lord of years and days“, was captivatingly eerie.
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Lucky you! I doubt if we’ll see *anything* with our present cloud cover……
Yep. I’m glad I was able to watch what I could of it. Of course, the cloudcover is so thick now (a half-hour after what passed for totality here) that it hasn’t lightened up any.
We also had 85% coverage, and didn’t make much difference here either. In 2017, it was completely different. It got quite dark and the temp dropped so rapidly. The kiddos were so amazed and loved it.
2017 was a big ol’ nothingburger here — just a strangeness to the light –but glad you were able to experience it a little!