Total Solar Eclipse Today (Monday)

[Laurel]

Moon to obscure sun in partial solar eclipse, visible in the West

A dazzling solar eclipse will be on display across a broad swath of the western United States, Mexico, Canada and Asia on Monday, with as much as 99 percent of the sun obscured by the moon.

One of the best U.S. views will be in San Diego where as much as three-fourths of the sun will be hidden.

Other sections of the country will get a less dramatic sight. In Chicago, only one-fifth of the sun's surface will be blocked. The Eastern Seaboard will miss the eclipse entirely because it will occur after sunset there.

more at
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/news/archive/2002/06/05/national1415EDT0730.DTL

 

[red_rose]

We're gettin' 40% here in Tejas...

Cali gets a pretty good view.

I hear it's something like 96% eclipse in Hawaii - those lucky ducks...

 

[Shaq]

I slept through Hail Bop....so chances are high that I'll sleep through this.....plus I'd only be able to see lke 5% anyway....no fair....

 

[Dre]

Wow... I haven't seen an Eclipse in forever.

 

[Liontamr]

Figures..

The one time out of the year where we have overcast and rain for more than five minutes here, and this will take place!

 

[Arc da Rat]

I hear it's something like 96% eclipse in Hawaii - those lucky ducks...

OMG! When on Monday!! I gotta protect myself. j/k But I'll make sure to not look up at the sun.

edit: Actually read the web page Laurel posted.


5:13 pm PDT thats (does the math) 2:13 pm Hawaii Time glad that I am gonna be indoors.

 

[zantac666]

Up here in washington were going to have 48% of the sun covered.

 

[WhiteRose]

Rats. Nothing to see in Denver because the smoke from the forest fires is still covering the city and we can't see the sun anyway. We've had a very thick layer of smoke over the entire metro area for 2 days now. It was so bad yesterday they had air quality alerts and ash was raining down all over the place, and my car still smells a bit smoky from it.

I hope they catch the idiot who had the illegal campfire going that started one of the blazes. How incredibly stupid can a person be? It's been so dry and hot here for the past two weeks, everywhere in the mountains is posted with fire alerts. The other was caused naturally by a coal seam that had been gradually moving up toward the surface and erupted yesterday.

 

[punkrockpoet]

ragnarok?

eclipse? oh my god. we're not gonna die are we?

 

[Laurel]

It's kinda cool. You can't really look directly at it - it being the sun, and the sun being rather bright and all that. Our neighbors had a welding helmet, through which you could see the moon passing in front of the sun. The sun was just a fingernail sliver.

 

[Shaq]

Is it over yet?

 

[badasschick]

Its called smog folks!

 

[zantac666]

It got a little darker but we also had clouds cover the sun.