I’m in the DFW area. Will be dark in about 3 hours. Funny thing is I am about 5 miles to the northwest of 100% totality. But I will not be traveling. (Got some personal matter to tend to at home.) Anyways, 99.9% ain’t bad.
Currently in Chicago area and we got a 90-some % …got a little bit dimmer…but nothing like the total we saw in the Smoky Mountains in 2017… Temp definitely dropped rapidly though…
People underestimate that 10% of the sun is still extremely bright.
The 1999 solar eclipse went right over my house. (While I was in Denmark of course, so no totality for me. But it was bad weather anyway).
It was still impressive, but I had assumed that the 60% or so that I saw up there would change anything. It didn’t. If I had not looked up (through clouds and with filter) I wouldn’t even have noticed.
during the one in 1999 I worked for ESAB a welding equipment supplier … so there were about 7 of us stood outside wearing welding helmets staring up into the sky