Last I saw, the Cleveland Guardians were trying to figure out exactly when to schedule their home opener... which normally would be in progress during the eclipse and Cleveland is almost dead-center on the track of totality. Lots of concerns about (a) whether everybody’s eyes would be protected, and (b) that the dramatically varying light levels would wreak havoc with the batters.
We’ve already got our plans made and will be traveling to Cleveland. If the weather looks bad, we’ll head southwest till we hit sunshine.
Does anyone know a map that shows the width of the partial path and percentage eclipsed?
I smoked glass absolutely black for the transit of Mercury. All you could see was a dim circle with a black dot moving across.
We didn’t look at it as long as you could look at an eclipse. But no harm done.
And the effects of the eclipse are more than just the sun. It’s the crescent glints in the tree shadows, the darkness, the birds
My friend told me that during an eclipse, her parents made all.ten children stay inside with the shades drawn.
That was probably the one I had no luck with cardboard and a pinhole.
Partial Solar Eclipse - Trumpet Voluntary
Luckily, my husband wasn’t there when I pointed the camera to the sun. Had a cameraman once who got a beatific look on his face and said, “Clouds! They’re God’s scrim.”
Solar panels and EVs will suffer and a young lady in Sweden will weep.
This will be my third total eclipse. 1963 in Maine (clear skies until right after totality), 1979 in Winnepeg (clear skies) and now back to Maine again. I will have to travel a little bit north to get into the path but the unknown is our typically bad April weather. We’ll be gathering at a friend’s camp and, regardless of the weather, we’ll have a great time.
Intriguingly, this year the Annunciation of Christ is celebrated on the same day of the eclipse, April 8th.
It’s usually on March 25th but this year Holy Week bumps it to the first free day after Easter Week.
I choose not to see this as a coincidence. :)
I have no plans to travel although it would be cool to see. But I’m in NYC, and we’ll get a lot, so that’s nice.
Saw the one in 2017 in Kentucky.
I rented a 19-bed colonial on an island in Lake Erie for the event. Putin Bay Ohio. Big family event. Might be cloudy but there’s a lot of bars.
We’re setting up several audio recording stations to record changes in vocalizations of bird calls / songs for the focal species we study (Eastern Bluebird, Tree Swallow). I doubt we’ll capture any Tree Swallow audio as they will not yet be vocalizing at that time in the month. But Eastern Bluebird will have a few early nest builders and egg layers at that time.
Although not focal species, American Robin, Song Sparrow, and Northern Cardinal vocalizations should change in reaction to the decrease and subsequent increase in sunlight.
This is the best map for solar eclipse - interactive google map, one can zoom in on out. You can click on spot and it will show all the eclipse data in that locality!
Tines are in UUT (Universal time, Greenwich time). It is kind of noonish or afternoon in the USA.
http://xjubier.free.fr/en/site_pages/solar_eclipses/TSE_2024_GoogleMapFull.html
I might go up to Vermont...but April features many bad days up there.
Looks like I will get 85%, which means total cloud cover, just like in 2017.