Dzimm Posted August 21, 2017 Share Posted August 21, 2017 This is once in a lifetime for me without traveling and I don't get to see it....... In Des Moines this is what we get to see of the 95% eclipse. Damn storm is coming through and will be in the center of it during totality. Sent from my HTC U11 using Tapatalk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
whowey Posted August 21, 2017 Share Posted August 21, 2017 This is once in a lifetime for me without traveling and I don't get to see it....... In Des Moines this is what we get to see of the 95% eclipse. Damn storm is coming through and will be in the center of it during totality. Sent from my HTC U11 using Tapatalk I'm four hours east and I'm going see as much as Ray Charles. Sent from my SM-S920L using Tapatalk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dzimm Posted August 21, 2017 Author Share Posted August 21, 2017 Lol how could it have gotten worse? We are all standing outside looking at the clouds and it starts to downpour during maximum. Just looks like a really bad storm here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DirtyComanche Posted August 21, 2017 Share Posted August 21, 2017 I'm in Nunavut. Pretty certain it didn't do anything here. I'm okay with it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnj92131 Posted August 21, 2017 Share Posted August 21, 2017 I am in Marion, Illinois for the day. We had some dark clouds blocking the sun just 7 minutes before the start of totality. But the clouds moved along and we got a good view from just before the start of totality. Did not get as dark as I had expected. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Minuit Posted August 21, 2017 Share Posted August 21, 2017 I was in Nashville today. It was darkest for about 30 seconds. Didn't see it for the whole time because of clouds but they did part at the end of totality. Pretty neat to see in person. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shelbyluvv Posted August 21, 2017 Share Posted August 21, 2017 Here's a shot I took this morning for you to look at. Sent from my XT1254 using Tapatalk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
schardein Posted August 21, 2017 Share Posted August 21, 2017 I am in Marion, Illinois for the day. We had some dark clouds blocking the sun just 7 minutes before the start of totality. But the clouds moved along and we got a good view from just before the start of totality. Did not get as dark as I had expected. Marion, IL is my hometown! I stayed at home in MO though. I expected a little darker also, but it was still cool. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeep Driver Posted August 21, 2017 Share Posted August 21, 2017 Here in Gatlinburg we experienced 99.96% totality. Wife took this pic right before. It was one cool experience. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dzimm Posted August 22, 2017 Author Share Posted August 22, 2017 Here's a shot I took this morning for you to look at. Sent from my XT1254 using Tapatalk This is a really cool picture! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
87Warrior Posted August 22, 2017 Share Posted August 22, 2017 It was nothing more than a cloudy day in Central, KS. It gets darker around here when a storm rolls through than it did with 98% totality, such a disappointment. I was looking forward to the 1PM "night time" :dunno: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jpdriver1 Posted August 22, 2017 Share Posted August 22, 2017 here in socal, the marine layer disolved just in time to see very little. got a little darker, saw the one in the 70's not impressed this time here Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
krustyballer16 Posted August 22, 2017 Share Posted August 22, 2017 Good ol' Indiana weather doing what it does best,...ruining everything! Sent from my HTC One M9 using Tapatalk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HOrnbrod Posted August 22, 2017 Share Posted August 22, 2017 Same here. Got to see the very beginning of the crescent when the moon was first making it's pass, then black clouds rolled in and blocked everything. Soon as the eclipse was over, it cleared up instantly. :( Oh well, at least there will be another one in 2024..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fiatslug87 Posted August 22, 2017 Share Posted August 22, 2017 I'm sticking around for the 2045 event. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete M Posted August 22, 2017 Share Posted August 22, 2017 my favorite eclipse photo yet. :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AMCJeepMJ Posted August 23, 2017 Share Posted August 23, 2017 Our home was in the path of totality in Central Oregon, but juuuuuuust barely. A beautiful clear morning made for a spectacular eclipse. It's the oddest thing having everything get dimmer and dimmer over the course of an hour, and almost suddenly dark. Temp dropped 15 degrees during totality too. We had crazy crowds in Madras and Prineville and took the remainder of the day for traffic to clear up on 97 as Californians all headed south. All in all, It was an amazing natural event to behold. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fiatslug87 Posted August 23, 2017 Share Posted August 23, 2017 Here's a pic my wife took as it began (there was on and off cloud cover), we only got ~79% coverage here, you can see some sun spots on the surface. She used an 800mm lense with a solar filter. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gogmorgo Posted August 26, 2017 Share Posted August 26, 2017 I was just north of Idaho Falls on the way back from the Lemons Rally. Definitely happy we took the time to stop and wait. Perfectly clear skies, we saw stars come out during totality. It's one of those things I'll never forget. Just wish I had a better camera than my phone so I could've taken pictures. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnj92131 Posted August 26, 2017 Share Posted August 26, 2017 All my cell phone pictures were worthless too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carnuck Posted September 9, 2017 Share Posted September 9, 2017 This is what we've seen every day this past week or so. Krypton sun and everything is reddish hue. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gogmorgo Posted September 14, 2017 Share Posted September 14, 2017 That's been my view pretty well all summer. We've had better and worse weeks, but clear skies have been few and far between. It's been a bad fire season, somehow we've been lucky and haven't had one here yet, but all throughout the AB/BC mountains it's been bad. Just this weekend the wind picked up and blew a small fire over the continental divide, burning almost the entirety of Waterton Lakes national park, easily my favourite park, in about 12 hours. Climate change is a thing. More heat means less humidity, bigger storms with more lightening strikes... It's just going to get worse from here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnj92131 Posted September 14, 2017 Share Posted September 14, 2017 1 hour ago, gogmorgo said: Climate change is a thing. More heat means less humidity, bigger storms with more lightening strikes... It's just going to get worse from here. Does more heat mean less humidity??? Warm air holds more moisture, not less. Warm air over oceans mean more tropical storms. Warm air has more energy, not less.?? Leading to more, larger weather swings??? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gogmorgo Posted September 14, 2017 Share Posted September 14, 2017 Really I didn't intend for this to deviate away from a light-hearted thread about the eclipse. More heat means the ground dries out faster, there's less water for plants, etc. Unless there's huge shifts in weather patterns, areas that are already in rain shadows won't get all that much more rain than they do already. A lot of dryer areas survive because of the dew that condenses at night. The hotter temperatures mean less dew is deposited and it gets pulled back into the atmosphere sooner during the day. Dryer ground means dryer vegetation and more severe fires. This year has definitely been one of extremes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mvusse Posted September 23, 2017 Share Posted September 23, 2017 I got home from an offroad trip, tossed my girlfriend into the camper, unhooked the car hauler and drove south for 9 hours to a little podunk town (pop of 1700) right in the middle of the path of totality. Got there at 2 am, went to bed, woke up at 8 and found myself blocked in. About 20,000 other people had the same idea. Some of those had some seriously high dollar equipment with them, though. Not a cloud in the sky, experienced totality for a bit over two and a half minutes, and it was awesome. April 8, 2024 will be much closer to home, with the edge of totality being 7 miles from my house. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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