Total Solar Eclipse

[AuTX Buckeye]

I have a lake front viewing location already in place for that sucker.

I hope it's not in austin. I expect the lakes to be bone dry by that time

 

[ORD_Buckeye]

Underwhelming in Chicago. The clouds and haze refracted the light, and all that it seemed was happening was that the sky went grey for a few minutes.

 

[LostLassie]

Underwhelming in Chicago. The clouds and haze refracted the light, and all that it seemed was happening was that the sky went grey for a few minutes.

Columbus area was about 70% of totality. We were overcast, but breaks made the sun visible. If I hadn't known about the eclipse, it would have just seemed like it was cloudy out. It's been darker here with just a common thunderstorm. Looks like the only place to be is somewhere with 100%. Would be cool to see all the corona effects once. Maybe Cleveland in 2024, if I'm still kickin' around then.

Some cool images from the eclipse in this article:

https://www.accuweather.com/en/weat...e-wows-spectators-across-the-country/70002521

Darn clouds! These are the crescent shadows I was hoping to see yesterday:



OK, a couple more...


https://www.instagram.com/p/BYDkZgwlQsP/

 

[AKAK]

I hope it's not in austin. I expect the lakes to be bone dry by that time

Mine is about 10k square miles. Hopefully it hangs on till then. If not, you'll have this:

 

[Dee-Liem]

Walked into a Krispy Kreme for the first time in at least a decade, just because someone in the family wanted to try the chocolate eclipse doughnut Monday.

 

[FCollinsBuckeye]

Mind. Blown.

Made the trip to the path of totality in Wyoming, had crystal clear skies and was completely overwhelmed by the experience. I see why people fly around the world for these. The moment I could remove the glasses and look directly at the eclipsed sun surrounded by the electric icy blue corona will be with me forever. So glad I was able to share the experience with my 9 year old daughter and a few friends and their kids. 10/10 would recommend getting to totality for the next one. I see a visit to the motherland on the horizon in 2024.

 

[The KSB]

My wife booked a room in Charleston months ago. It was great. On its own Charleston is a great place to visit. In the morning we toured Ft Sumter. After that we walked around town. There was a shit ton of partially dressed day drinking college girls. When the eclipse happened The whole street started hooting and hollering. I was pretty dazzled by how dark it really got. What sucked though was I 95 was a parking lot all the way from mid South Carolina to half way up North Carolina.

 

[LostLassie]

Wicker thunderstorm right now. It's darker out than it was for the eclipse yesterday.

Edit: "Wicked"

Wicker thunderstorm would be raining lawn furniture.

 

[Dryden]

 

[ExpatAkronite]

Alaskan Airlines had a special charter (various scientists, an astronaut, NASA, local journalists and some contest winners) fly west out of Portland into the Pacific this morning--and then followed the line back until landfall on the Oregon coast. Couldn't buy your way onto this. Should be excellent footage forthcoming:
https://newsroom.alaskaair.com/2017...ns-flight-to-chase-The-Great-American-Eclipse

Video from the flight--with a very animated narrator.

 

[RB07OSU]

The eclipse was AWESOME in Boise. We were at 99.5% and clear skies, and I was up on the rooftop of one our larger buildings downtown, it was quite a sight to behold. It went completely chilly and not completely black, but enough that all the automatic lights came on downtown. Definitely felt eerie but was really cool. Totality might have been worth it though, that .05% is a little more noticeable than I thought it would be...seeing pictures out in Idaho of the totality was pretty remarkable.

 

[ExpatAkronite]

This might be the best eclipse photo I've seen:

http://www.oregonlive.com/eclipse/2017/08/the_story_behind_viral_iconic.html#incart_most-read_

 

[ExpatAkronite]

This might be the best eclipse photo I've seen:

http://www.oregonlive.com/eclipse/2017/08/the_story_behind_viral_iconic.html#incart_most-read_

For context I should have also posted this (the climber is at the summit of Monkey Face):

 

[Zurp]

We made the 9-hour voyage (turned into 13 hours, with stops required by kids and terrible traffic around Cincinnati) to western Kentucky for it. Beautiful. It was awesome. Around noon, it was hot - 92 or so. I'd guess it was in the low 80's by totality - it cooled off a bunch. It was really eerie, too. It got as dark as twilight, with the horizon red all around.

I'm looking forward to 2024. But you can't count on weather near Cleveland. So I know that I can cross that off the bucket list.

 

[BuckeyeNation27]

For context I should have also posted this (the climber is at the summit of Monkey Face):

Jesus. Is that what the west looks like?