The forecast at the time of the eclipse has improved. Mostly cloudy with a 15% chance of perpetration.

Jeanette Isabelle

Overcast here, it should get darker, but that's about the only thing we'll see.

Edit: regardless what the weather forecast indicating cloudy conditions, not a cloud in the sky. Just waiting for it to get darker.

The sky is clear enough. I just saw the sun with my special glasses and it is 75% visible.

Jeanette Isabelle

It was dim here, not completely dark. Mom brought out a thermometer. The temperature dropped 10°.

Jeanette Isabelle

I was out of town and my customer insisted on stopping the training I was providing for over an hour for this. It was one of those "it happens" moments at work for me. Where the customer was we had about 90% coverage.

Traveling north was not practical; I would have loved to see it go completely dark.

Jeanette Isabelle

I saw no indications of the eclipse here. THE eclipse of the century and I've seen it get dimmer when a cloud passed in front of the sun.

Not that I didn't try. I pulled out a stack of colored filters from my days shooting B&W photos on film, and stacked a green, red, orange and a gray polarizing filter, and brought the intensity down to safe. I could see the dark shape next to the sun, but not enough to waste my time setting up a shot.

My buddy Chris went fishing. His camera adjusted for the lack of light at the beginning of the video. It seemed to me that they were being sarcastic, but I just couldn't see the effect because of the phone. And the we saw it for a little bit. Cool!

[video:youtube] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5PE-1lVWnQ8[/video]

Being farther north, we were only in a 70%+ coverage zone.

Tried to watch the NASA live feed, until the Internet blew up. News sites just had a bunch of talking heads -- WTH?? Stop flapping your gums and show me the bleeping sky!

Clear morning here -- and half an hour before the show, heavy translucent cloud moved in. Figures.

But you could see a noticeable dimming of the light intensity on the ground.

And there was an odd tinge to the light somehow. Not like a cloud simply obscuring the sun. Can't put my finger on it, but it was a colour thing -- vaguely parallel to the weird sun when the smoke from the forest fires moves in.

I made it down to Sweetwater, TN. We were near the center of the totality path. Getting down there was not a problem. Traffic was normal for a Monday. Getting back home was a NIGHTMARE. It took us nine hours to travel 195 miles and we left immediately after totality.

Cell service down there before the eclipse kept dropping out but texts would go through. I'm guessing it was overloaded.