Total Solar Eclipse coming in 2024

[brooklynite]

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[elleng]

1. In two years, a full solar eclipse will travel from Texas to Maine.

The total solar eclipse, lasting up to four minutes, will shroud a 124-mile-wide swath of the country in darkness.

This article, first published on April 8, 2019, has been updated.

Four and a half years ago, a total solar eclipse captivated the nation. Twenty million people crowded into the path of totality, a mystical band that stretched from Salem, Ore., to Charleston, S.C. The coast-to-coast sudden nightfall united Americans, who watched the milky-white tendrils of the sun’s atmosphere drift elegantly into space for up to two minutes and 40 seconds. By all metrics, it was a magical experience. In two years, you will have another chance to bask in the otherworldly.

A total solar eclipse will again cast the moon’s shadow on a swath of the Lower 48.'>>>

https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2022/04/08/full-solar-eclipse-2024/?

[FoxNewsSucks]

2. The last US mainland total eclipse for 20 years.

Definitely planning to watch from high ground.

Several friends went to Hermann MO in 2017 for a few days. I went out the day before, and we watched from a winery with hilltop grounds.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

3. I plan on being there. Would not miss it for anything! n/t

[gratuitous]

4. My goodness! This was on Fox?!

What dark sorcery allows mere mortals to predict when and where the sun will be blotted out? It's witchcraft, I tells ya!

Truly, though, I wonder how the nitwits who are so anti-science these days can look at something like this and stick with their "all science is bunk" stand?

[Liberal In Texas]

5. It's going right over my house. (Almost)

3 minutes and 50 seconds of totality.

Hope I'm still around!

[LeftInTX]

6. 2 min and 18 sec at my house!

I will probably head further west or southwest. I can get 4 min 20 secs. Weather might be driest in Eagle Pass. (At the border)

[HeartachesNhangovers]

7. I'm going to see it (if I live that long)

I saw the last North-American total eclipse in 2017 in Oregon and it was the most awe-inspiring thing I've experienced. The 2024 eclipse will be twice as long. I haven't done any planning yet, so I don't know where I'll be. SW Texas would be the closest location for me, but I'll have to see if northern Mexican is practical.

[AwakeAtLast]

8. Long totality will be near my house!

Over 4 minutes!

[dalton99a]

9. The largest city entirely in the path will be Dallas

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_eclipse_of_April_8,_2024