Interesting that your notes are quite different than mine. Everyone at my place could see a difference in lighting around us before the sun was even half covered. When the sun was approx 7/8 covered here, the Cicadas started making noise and photo controlled lights were starting up. Totality did seem quick. We saw no birds flying during the event but wasn't specifically paying attention to them. No dogs nearby either. The temperature dropped a measured 9.4 degrees during the event using equipment at the local school and wind went from calm to approx 10mph. What surprised everyone is the oxygen level showed a drop of one half a percent during the totality event.
We only got about 98% here at the house. I have a bird feeder and a humming bird feeder in the front yard. Cardinals and hummingbirds both lighted in the cherry tree in the front yard and stayed there until it began getting lighter. No barking dogs. No birds, crows or buzzards in the sky. Not even the slightest breeze blowing for at least 15 minutes.
We only got about 70% coverage but it was enough to cause screams of fear, cries of doom, Kleenex sales to soar, safe spaces to overflow and a virgin sacrifice or 2......
Those pics are cool, thanks. But I do have to dissagree about the temperature drop. Out here the temperature is in 3 digits, BUT at around 60% or so I could notice that the breeze was feeling cooler and the sun did not feel like it was putting out heat. I could walk out in the direct sun and felt no sensation of heat from the sun. I also noticed that my shadow was blurry as if I had two shadows imposed over each other. I watched the entire thing through a paper with a hole punch in it. The paper cast a shadow on the ground and I could see the sun in the shadow through the hole in the paper. A perfect image of the eclipse was visible with out harm to the eyes. It was cool
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Our temperature did drop a bit. My wife noticed that there were no sounds of the highway, a mile away, the rock quarry about the same distance, or any of the larger manufacturing plants that are also about a mile away. The only thing we heard was a small private plane that flew over. No traffic on our local road.
We watched the eclipse through binoculars. Not held to our eyes, but with them pointed up at the sun, they projected two images of the eclipse on a sheet of paper laid on our walkway. The two cereal box pinhole cameras we made were useless.
We only got about 70% coverage but it was enough to cause screams of fear, cries of doom, Kleenex sales to soar, safe spaces to overflow and a virgin sacrifice or 2......
Surprised you found a virgin within a couple of miles of your place.
I suppose the fact that we were in SC and it was well into the '90s and 90% humidity might have had something to do with not feeling a temperature drop. And there wasn't a breeze before it started so the stillness wouldn't have been noticeable.
But as I said, there was no discernible difference in animal behavior. Birds chirped, dogs stood around wondering what their masters were going on about and Liberals were outraged over DT's latest executive order banning the sun.
I watched the entire thing through a paper with a hole punch in it. The paper cast a shadow on the ground and I could see the sun in the shadow through the hole in the paper. A perfect image of the eclipse was visible with out harm to the eyes. It was cool
We bought 5 pairs of glasses for us to watch it but I showed my kids the pin hole in a paper thing to. I didn't have it cast onto the ground, instead casting it onto another paper I had held in the other hand. I had remembered that's how we did it back in the late 70's or early 80's when there was an eclipse while I was at elementary school. I remember it was when I was attending Centennial Elementary in Colorado Springs Co. but I can't recall exactly what grade. It would have been sometime between my 2nd to 6th grade years.
I guess Al Gore doesn't donate to UMC. A temp drop of that magnitude would never see the light of day. Even if it was for 2 minutes.
Seriously, I wonder if it has to do with the humidity level.
I'd definitely notice a 14 degree drop.
Our temp dropped a bit here during the eclipse, and right afterwards dropped noticeably. Might just be a coincidence, but wife and I both noticed and it came back up only somewhat later in the day.
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Traveled to Middle TN to meet with friends and observe the eclipse.
One of my friends told me that he had prayed about this event. Said that this was just a demonstration of what our country would be like if Pelowsi accumulated any more power.......................
------------------ Ron
Isn't it strange that after a bombing, everyone blames the bomber, his upbringing, his environment, his culture, his mental state but … after a shooting, the problem is the gun.... Open your frigg'n minds, think about all the other tools that can be made into WMDs.
I sincerely hope that life is never discovered on another planet because, sure as hell Progressives and Socialists will want to send them money.
Our temperature did drop a bit. My wife noticed that there were no sounds of the highway, a mile away, the rock quarry about the same distance, or any of the larger manufacturing plants that are also about a mile away. The only thing we heard was a small private plane that flew over. No traffic on our local road.
We watched the eclipse through binoculars. Not held to our eyes, but with them pointed up at the sun, they projected two images of the eclipse on a sheet of paper laid on our walkway. The two cereal box pinhole cameras we made were useless.
Cause they all stopped! I was driving down the interstate and cars started pulling off, and KIDS were getting out. ... I figured out what was happening and pulled into a largely empty rest area and waited for the idiots to get their spawn off the highway.
I watched it through the reflection on my phone. Saw it fine, but I wouldn't pull off the highway to see it on purpose.
My wife noticed that there were no sounds of the highway, a mile away, the rock quarry about the same distance, or any of the larger manufacturing plants that are also about a mile away.
Our crews had some jobsites which shut down for awhile before and during the peak of the eclipse. I think they were worried about safety; don't want someone getting run over by a machine in pitch darkness! The funny part is, we only had 87% coverage which dimmed the light somewhat but it was not "dark" at all.
Too bad it was kind of variably cloudy. If you didn't know there was an eclipse happening, you might have thought it was just some haze or something making the sun weak.
I watched a good webcam from Tennessee... It was neat to see how the sunlight changed before and after the eclipse. An hour or so before and after the eclipse, the light looked like normal sunny daylight "white balance", for lack of a better term. But as the sun coverage increased, the light changed, and became more reddish or bronze in color. The camera compensated for the diminishing sunlight, so it didn't look any dimmer than normal, until the streetlights all came on with the sun shining. Then of course it all got dark as the eclipse reached 100%.
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