Starting here in southeast Michigan

Here in St Louis, 45 minutes before we hit 99%:

We're all gonna die

Someday

For those who feel that global warming is man-made instead of sunshine and mother nature... I'm going to share the temperature changes within the path of totality with them tomorrow.

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Originally posted by bob ramberg:
I'm not in the path of totality, here in Madiganistan, but would like to watch it. We will get 93% totality according to the NASA sight. I have a number of welding lenses that I could view it through. I'm thinking if it will shield my eyes from a tig arc, it should work for a couple seconds of looking at the sun. Any thoughts on this?

Yeah, arc welding lenses work just fine. Don’t need the hood either, just a lens is plenty fine.

peak here is around 3pm, I'll be standing guard in case the zombies or whatever it is come out of the ground....

Earthquakes, locusts, dogs and cats living together...

I'm in the path of a total here in 25 minutes or so. I locked the German Shepard's up for their afternoon nap and I'm going to do the same.

The total eclipse is over for us, it was actually kinda cool. For a couple of minutes, it was dark, almost like dusk right before nightfall. Birds were chirping away...

Suns about half covered now in GR MI. 25 min to totality here. Only 93% at totality here. Made a box to see it.

managed to track down the full aperture filter for my telescope and was able to get a good view - I guestimate we had perhaps 75% coverage. It dimmed slightly, and got noticeably cooler but essentially the same as the eclipse we had here last year

About 75% now. Looks like twilight in the middle of the afternoon. A bat just flew by....kinda cool.

We got a couple glimpses of the toenail sliver [94% IIRC], here in N Houston [just south of IAH], through the pretty heavy cloud cover.

about 1/3 here, have the special glasses, neat to see, remember doing this in grade school

Got 7 more minutes here in beautiful SW Michigan.

I was on the edge in Central Texas, not so impressive. I thought that it may get dark but it was more like evening.

Well that was a flop for the Philadelphia area.

Was bright sun and blue skies all frikken day until about 30-40 minutes ago then heavy clouds rolled in and that was that.

That was truly amazing. Totally worth the drive. I don't know how there's such a huge difference between 99 and 100%, but there is. One second it was like evening and a second later it was dark. It was like night...we could see stars, and the corona of the sun around the moon, even a little solar flare peeking out the bottom. I've never experienced anything quite like that....I'm glad we decided to come see it.