ECLIPSE TALK
This post is for all of you who got to see the totality, or close to the totality, to write about what you experienced. So have at it!
I’ve experienced two totalities. In 1963, aboard ship in the Navy, we were intentionally in the totality because we were taking a group of Japanese and American scientists to see it. We were in the totality for 30 minutes, as we steamed up the path to stay in the event for their observation.
In 1978, I experienced the west coast eclipse from Lake Tahoe. Three and a half minutes.
Both events were awe-inpiring to me.
Today here in LA, I forgot we would get a partial eclipse, so I was momentarily surprised when I went from the office to the kitchen for another cup of coffee and I looked out the window and the light was about half. Then I remembered, and ran outside. We got a 60% eclipse and the termperature dropped several degrees for a couple minutes. A neighbor’s dog was barking like crazy until the light started coming back.
What is yours like for you?
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We got skunked - in Dallas, it was bright sun at 12:30 and at 2:00, when everything was over..... From 1:40 to 1:44 (when it counted), solid clouds - though friends of ours did have full sun and saw the beast all the way through. It did get dark, and the Bride suggested we informally renew our wedding vows, so we did on the front patio in the dark; we're going for another 25 years - in 25 years, I'll be 108 and she will be 102. Wish us luck.....
Here in north central Arkansas we had clear blue skies and mid 70s at the start of the eclipse. A neighbor came over and we all sat out in the yard with our eclipse glasses. The temperature dropped slowly as the eclipse progressed and at totality it was 68. We got to see the "diamond ring" in the last few seconds before totality and the wispy reddish chromosphere during totality. It was a great day for a couple of old science geeks.