Weather predictions and population statistics show the best spots to see the total solar eclipse over North America this April
Our house will get about 90 seconds or so of totality, so I am really stoked that I get to see it but don’t have to make it a whole thing. Only thing I haven’t decided is if I’m going to try to muscle in on my kid’s elementary school events or grab her after lunch.
I now predict that moment will be very cloudy for my area.
Nice, I’m right in it! Time to get some glasses!
No glasses needed inside the path of totality
Only during totality.
You still need them if you want to see the moon creep across the sun.
I wish there was a better explanation of the color in the article. As I expected, Texas is last likely to be cloudy (and warmer than other options). It’s where I was wanting to go since the last eclipse, but now my stepdaughter is dealing with back problems and we might roll the dice on a shorter drive to Ohio or Indiana, if we can go at all.
They pointed out cities within 6 hours of the path of totality, but how far away from the totality can you be before you can’t see the eclipse?
Even being at 1%, just outside of totality is completely different. Yes, you can still see it, but it’s still a lot of sunlight.
Here’s the answer to your actual question though: https://www.space.com/37878-solar-eclipse-2024-path-of-totality-maps.html
From the last eclipse, the difference between totality and not totality is night and day. Even at 99% you can’t take the eclipse glasses off. The closer you get the more of the secondary effect you can see, like the crescent shadows, and the overall dimming. here is an interactive map. The percent for each of the lines is on the right and bottom.
I recently booked a campsite inside totality, about 5 hours from here. Going down Sunday, coming back Tuesday.
When we went to see the last one, we did it all in one day. That was a mistake. Traffic on the way there was bad, traffic out after was horrible. If you have a plan to travel for this, it would serve you well to try and avoid having to travel back on Monday, unless you’re already pretty close.
