Nature's pranks: solar eclipse about 11 mins before peak
The 2024-04-08 total solar eclipse that crosses the North American continent from Mexico into USA and then Canada has garnered worldwide attention. A solar eclipse is very much like nature playing a prank on planet earth.
Yet nature would play another prank as much of Southern Ontario was cloudy during the hour that the total solar eclipse was happening. The weather was sunny the day before, and as a matter of fact it was sunny just a few hours AFTER the eclipse also. From my viewpoint, the mostly obstructed sun was only visible for around 30 seconds. This image was taken at 3:09 PM local time, about 11 minutes before the maximum eclipse at 3:20 PM local time (at which point 99.6% of the sun would have been obstructed by the moon). #TotalEclipse2024
Nature's pranks: solar eclipse about 11 mins before peak
The 2024-04-08 total solar eclipse that crosses the North American continent from Mexico into USA and then Canada has garnered worldwide attention. A solar eclipse is very much like nature playing a prank on planet earth.
Yet nature would play another prank as much of Southern Ontario was cloudy during the hour that the total solar eclipse was happening. The weather was sunny the day before, and as a matter of fact it was sunny just a few hours AFTER the eclipse also. From my viewpoint, the mostly obstructed sun was only visible for around 30 seconds. This image was taken at 3:09 PM local time, about 11 minutes before the maximum eclipse at 3:20 PM local time (at which point 99.6% of the sun would have been obstructed by the moon). #TotalEclipse2024