This summer, darkness will fall across the face of America.
Birds will stop singing.
Temperatures will drop.
Stars will become visible in the daytime sky.
In about 100 days, a total solar eclipse will sweep across the continental United States for the first time since 1918. Astronomers are calling it the Great American Eclipse. – MORE
Even more at NASA
Oregon to South Carolina. Guess I’ll miss it.
Dang. It won’t be total where I live on the Gulf Coast. I think I might have to take a little drive, say, to Nashville. I’ve seen several lunar eclipses but never a total solar. If I had a bucket list this would be near the top!
Is this another Rosie O’donnell story?
Brad, if Rosie’s ass ever went into orbit and came between the Earth and the Sun it would wipe out all life on the planet.
Well, it may not wipe out all life, but we’d be suffering a might long Ass Age.
Uncle Al
There’s just something wrong with combining the words “Rosie’s Ass” and “Wipe” in the same sentence. Not even Mike Rowe is up to that task. LOL
I’m just a 4 hour drive from being in the total eclipse area. I’m looking forward to it. I’ve checked in to some hotels in the zone and there isn’t much available. One of my brothers works in a hospital in Wyoming, right in the zone, and they are putting a significant amount of time into emergency preparedness. they expect a bunch of unprepared city folk to misbehave and cause trouble.
Al.
Good for you… The Bucket list thrill. I’m heading to the desert, Borrego !
Path of totality passes about an hour and a hald drive north of me. I’ll take the wife for the sight seeing, and a small software defined radio to try and contribute to a radio propagation study being assembled.
That small box will do its job without intervention from me so we can just enjoy the spectacle.
Casper, Wyoming has rolled out the red carpet for all who want to experience it fully.
I remember seeing a solar eclipse during the Summer of 1963 when I was 10 years old. my 3 brothers and I were staying with my Grandparents for part of that Summer on their farm just North of Coeur d’ Alene, Idaho. My Grandmother took us out into the fields on the farm to view the eclipse, I don’t remember much except for her stories that she told us about it raining frogs and fish one time which was probably a tall tale but it was fun and exciting to see a solar eclipse.
Will it occur over Podunk?
In 1979, I witnessed a total solar eclipse in Goldendale, Washington.
If you live in the Midwest, the best place you will be able to view it is around Lincoln, Nebraska. I may drive the 8 hours south to view it.
I’m going to visit friends about 100 miles south of where I live to get in the right spot. I’m looking forward to it!
I hope this does not disturb my global warming.
DH used to be a backyard astronomist. Has several telescopes, or reflect thingies, and was a founding member of the county astronomy society, and even knew a key astronomer at the Planaterium in Chicago. This was years ago, before light pollution killed off visibility.
Gonna put the bug in his ear to take a vacation out west for this event.
My roommate and I have hotel accommodations for an hour drive from where we will be going to see the total eclipse of the sun. Well, not *see* … witness!
That’s as close to the total eclipse line we could find a hotel, even scheduling three months ago!
I’m really looking forward to it!
Nice animated graphic at the NASA link.
But is it racist?
We toured the Tucson Solar Observatory around 1980. Impressive, and way the heck up the hill/,mountain via ,at that time, a rather primitive road – in a rental car I didn’t trust.
DH has been an amateur astronomer since before we met. When we were dating, he would often pull onto dark secluded country areas, put the ragtop down, and we really did look at the stars. The first time DH did that sealed the deal for me. (My dad loved astronomy and the last outing our family took before he died was to the Chicago Planetarium.)
Gonna put the bug in his ear to take a trip for this.
Jimminy Crickets, I sure didn’t mean to do two posts detailing my life with a star gazer. The first post didn’t show up, so I started to repost, and got carried away with other stuff. So sorry for so much of this old lady’s reminiscences.
PJ,
My wife and I use to pull off in secluded areas too. But I was an amateur Doctor. LOL
That’s ok Brad. So is he.
Just saw the path. Only have to travel about one hour from our kids home to a state park to set up scopes. Yes! Won’t be as much fun as chasing twisters, but totally cool,
why do I just know that no matter where I’m parking my ass that day to view this …. it’s gonna be overcast & rain?
It’s an omen… Seriously.
The New York Times has confirmed through unnamed sources, and according to 93% of all scientists on the planet, this loss of sunlight is Trump’s fault.
That’s nothing. Every Summer at the Jersey Shore, the Governor blots out the sun when he strolls the Boardwalk.
@Uncle Al I live on the Gulf Coast, too. I’ll drive if we split the gas.
This is when the alien lesbian vampire zombies from
Ur-anus will attack.
Trust me on this one!
This is the result of Anglocentric Globaloney Warming!
We’re ALL gonna DIE!
Unless you send me your money … most, or all, of it.
How come it runs from west to east?
Ain’t that diversified, or sumpthin?