Weather Thou Goest: Tracking the Skies

[Ninja Bunny]

It's bright and clear in the Wedgwood neighborhood of Seattle (North Seattle). We're supposed to get 92%. It's already a little shadowy.

[Deleted]

We are at 97%. My dad lives in 99.9% totality about two hours away but MrB and I had to work today so we did not go up. I probably could have taken off a day but I was afraid traffic would be bananas and from reports, sounds like it is. I have heard that hotels close to the path of totality are either booked or crazy expensive. The problem I saw was not with traveling to the eclipse because many people went up this weekend (although it does sound like the roads are packed). What I was concerned about was that they are all going to be leaving at the same time.

[CyberCathy]

I think we are at about 70% but there has also been various levels of cloud cover and rain so far.

There is a total eclipse passing over Texas in seven years. That will be a lot easier for us view, so I'm far more excited for that one. It is also on a Monday, and I'm thinking the kids are just going to have to have a vacation day that day. Yup. It was back-to-school for them today and this district was nice enough to obtain glasses for all the kiddos. Having NASA as part of our district didn't hurt.

Me? I have my cereal box all ready.

[Ginger]

I traveled many hundreds of miles to be here in Cashiers, NC. 100% totality for 2 mins 37 seconds. Except that it's cloudy as hell and the sun hasn't been visible at all for several hours.

[azaleaqueen]

We're only supposed to get a partial here but it's clouded up and looks like it's going to rain so we probably won't know if or when anything happens

[FiggyPudding]

I'm just going to be on my porch and see it get dark, I don't have the special glasses. It'll be all over the news anyway.

[suekel]

I thought the eclipse glasses were necessary only because you are going to be looking at the sun way more/longer than you would be normally and staring at the sun is always bad for your eyes, not because the sun will suddenly achieve mystical powers.

It's this, exactly. If you are just out and going about your normal business the sun is no greater threat to you than any other day. Because viewing an eclipse requires looking directly at the sun for more than a second, it's dangerous, as it would be to do so any day. I tried to glimpse up as I was leaving a Thundercloud (awesome subs!) earlier and with sunglasses and some cloud cover I still could not look right at the sun for even one full second. I'll look at the pictures online and be good with it.

[forever1267]

Here in Los Angeles, we had a 65% eclipse, so it mostly looked like when we have the mountain fires. A smoky look without much darkness (or smell or danger, either, of course.)

My Facebook is full, though, as I have many friends and family in Kansas City and St. Louis, both in the total.

And also... Dolores Claiborne.

[americanchai]

I was in my backyard. Half a step before the exact moment it happened, a giant cloud came over it. Bizarrely, I was able to see the whole thing without glasses because of that cloud. I saw the round black, the corona, but hazy due to cloud-age. No glasses. So far, I can still see.

[Deleted]

Working from home, I just watched as much as we're going to see in NJ from my dining room. Pretty cool.