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Gogsnik wrote: We'll be lucky if we can even see the sun, I imagine it will be overcast, that's what usually happens when there is something worth seeing.
Being in the North West, it happens even when there isn't anything worth seeing.
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Gogsnik wrote: We'll be lucky if we can even see the sun, I imagine it will be overcast, that's what usually happens when there is something worth seeing.
Being in the North West, it happens even when there isn't anything worth seeing.
As a Northwesterner. I can confirm this!
No clouds by me though, and working for a welding company I was able to borrow some welding glass to look at it properly.
I'm stuck in what is essentially a cupboard with a slit for a window right now. Ah, things are fairly dreekit here, so I'm not sure if it would be obvious even if the eclipse were to happen. Meh, I'll catch it on the news later. =P
2015/03/20 11:07:00
Subject: Re:So UK... getting ready for the eclipse?
gotta be honest ... I did not think that the people in the UK knew what that there was a yellow disk in the sky.
Now, we like big books. (And we cannot lie. You other readers can’t deny, a book flops open with an itty-bitty font, and a map that’s in your face, you get—sorry! Sorry!)
Went dark and cold for a while. So much cloud couldn't see a thing. What a shame, I have vivid memory of the one in 1999 when I was about the age of the children I'm teaching, but they never got to see it.
Only full eclipse in my lifetime, and we get 100% overcast.
Ground visibility was about half a mile today, just not enough to be officially fog.
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2015/03/20 11:48:05
Subject: Re:So UK... getting ready for the eclipse?
Tibbsy wrote: I was able to borrow some welding glass to look at it properly.
Isn't that literally the first thing you do when you put a welding mask on? That little green blob in the sky is the only thing you can see!
Took some photos almost identical to Skinnereal's. I watched the eclipse through the screen of my camera but other than it getting slightly smaller for a few minutes nothing really happened. I was in France for the last one and it was completely overcast so I saw more this time but it was still not very much. My Dad saw a very good eclipse when he lived in Papua New Guinea, where the whole place went silent and all the locals got frightened.
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Some of friends of my wife and I are already planning a trip for the 2017 total eclipse here in the States... lucky, I don't have to travel too far to see it.
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