8th April 2024 North American Total Solar Eclipse

[Weather-history]

Parts of Mexico, USA and Canada are going to be treated to a total solar eclipse on Monday. It will probably be the most widely viewed total solar eclipse in history with so many populated sites being in the total path such as the Forth Worth-Dallas, Little Rock, Indianapolis, Cleveland, Buffalo

 

 

Parts of the western British Isles will see a partial eclipse close to sunset. 

 

 

[weatherobsuk]

A shame that for partiality it seems the majority of the Western UK is going to be clouded over with only central areas in the SW (namely Devon+Cornwall) possibly seeing a few breaks, I would have gone up to Keflavik to have seen partiality but Iceland is also completely overcast on the day. At least there's not long to wait until August 12 2026 which takes the path of Totality across the Reykjanes Peninsular and down through Spain & Portugal under more favourable summer conditions.

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 toggerob

I think after the 2026 eclipse, it will be a long time before some part of the British Isles experiences a 90%+ solar eclipse.  I think the next occasion is 2081.   

[AderynCoch]

Made it to Mazatlán in Mexico. Clear skies this evening, not sure about tomorrow. Crossing my fingers!

[ChannelThunder]

Paul has a fair few out with him on AR/MO border. He's posted that Cirrus is becoming a concern. Best of luck to them! 

Of course there's also an Enhanced SPC outlook in Texas on the same day as an eclipse!

[weatherobsuk]

NSF has 42 camera set-up for today's Eclipse, some in areas of Partiality but many under Totality.

 

[weatherobsuk]

United States Visible Satellite | Satellite Maps | Weather Underground

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[Welsh_Weather]

Currently travelling west across southern Ontario hoping that the clearer skies currently moving out of Michigan hit the Long Point to Port Burwell area by around 2pm EST. Totality is going to be around 3 minutes in this area so fingers crossed I can post some photos on here later. 
 

annoyingly the last two days we haven’t seen a single cloud and now we are chasing breaks.

Edited April 8 by Welsh_Weather

[cheeky_monkey]

 Weather-history i remember the total eclipse here in 1999 ..got totality where i was...sun came out at just the right time ..would i travel half way round the world to see another..nope ..i mean it was alright but is almost forgotten now.

[cheeky_monkey]

3 minutes ago, cheeky_monkey said:

i remember the total eclipse here in 1999 ..got totality where i was...sun came out at just the right time ..would i travel half way round the world to see another..nope ..i mean it was alright but is almost forgotten now.

fun fact if im still here the next NA total eclipse happens right here in Edmonton in August 2044..eaxctly 45 years after the UK solar eclipse of August 1999 

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[stewfox]

Nice interactive commentary 

[WeatherArc]

Reed timmers going up live in a plane 

 

[Scuba steve]

Some images coming over from the states

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[Paul]

The weatherholidays team are out in Arkansas, just minutes from totality  

[AderynCoch]

A lot of high cloud but it didn't spoil the view. Saw the whole thing. I'm buzzing right now!

Nice prominence at four o'clock by the way.

[weatherobsuk]

The shadow of the Moon was seen from the ISS as it was over the NE seaboard and the US+Canada, starting at 19:33

 

[stewfox]

 Paul any new pics ? 

[Paul]

 stewfox Just this at the moment, should have some more when they're up in a couple of hours. 

 

 

[Paul]

A few more from Paul and the WeatherHols group 

 

  

[Paul]

A few more: