Totality went right over my house (Texas). Had a cloud obscured view about 30% of the time during the lead up to totality (70% of the time with no view). Saw two seconds of cloud dimmed totality before a thick cloud blotted it out. Sucked. Beautiful clear blue sky today.
Well, here, I had clouds that had gotten in the way of the eclipse on Monday, even though it had gotten to a sliver of sun left before the moon moved away. I was able to see that there was dim sunlight here when there was a break in the clouds and seem mysterious in a way to me.
Be me, Canadian
Hear about big important eclipse
Go outside, waiting for sun to get covered
Big cloud comes and covers sun
mfw exactly what I was expecting happens
Sorry
We were worried about that happening. We did get some high, thin clouds that made the view “fuzzy”, but overall it was a good view in the end. We really waited to the last minute to make a decision where we would attempt to see it, luckily we chose well.
My manager made a last minute trip from Toronto to Montreal because he it was cloudy. He was all geared up for taking photos, and he in fact did get some extremely cool shots.
I’m in northern Ontario, so unfortunately I couldn’t experience the full effect.
Not really mad. Just very sad. I had been waiting years for it and I drove hours so I could spend the eclipse with friends within the totality. We made the most of it, but it sucked.
I checked the noaa cloud cover forecast 7 days prior, 2 days, 1 day, 12 hours… My friends in Rochester, NY (pretty sure) got clouded out but Burlington VT had a mild hazy layer of clouds that still offered full view. It blurred some of the corona. I hope you still got to experience that sudden darkness, maybe watch the shadow drift across the cloud layer too.
DFW here. Saw the weather forecast for Dallas was cloudy and decided to make a last minute drive for Arkansas on the morning of the eclipse. Managed to see it at 100% with clear skies, but also found out that the skies were pretty clear in parts of dfw during 100% anyway so my hours of driving weren’t all that useful.
You took the initiative to find clear skies. Nothing useless about it unless you wanted to take a guess where the cloud opening would be at that exact time at home
It was a mixed bag around the metroplex for sure. It was spotty then cleared up then a big ol fat cloud rolled up just in time for totality on my side of town. Still was better than what they forecasting.
I was already on a trip, and to stay to see the eclipse in Texas was going to cost me an extra two grand in plane tickets so I left. Turns out in Texas, it was thunderstorms all day. Back home I got to see a whopping 3% eclipse instead of thunderstorms. Wowee wasn’t even worth looking up.
I was in Erie PA, which was in the totality. It was mostly cloudy until like 1:30ish. It cleared up enough to watch the moon creep up and the totality, then the clouds came back a couple minutes after. It was really the perfect window. I consider myself very lucky, because the next one that’s going to come anywhere near me is gonna be in like, 50 years.
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