Was in south Ontario, the sky was clear for about an hour before totality, and then about 15 minutes before, a big dark cloud came in and ruined it.
You are literally Old Man Yells at Cloud
Mine was ruined by traffic and my clutch burning out due to the +8 hour traffic. currently waiting for a tow =(
Traffic fucked us here too. Left with what I thought was plenty of extra time. An hour into the drive and another hour had been added to the GPS. Turned around at that point because we just weren’t going to make it.
Southern Texas checking in. I saw the sun twice for a total of six seconds. My city was within the path of totality, so I got to watch thousands of disappointed visitors block our highways.
I drove hundreds of miles to glen rose to get clear skies. gotta keep mobile
During the peak, clouds rolled in in the Philly area. I was able to see it on and off, but missed most of the peak except for a few second here or there. Sounds like others had it much worse than I did though, so I can’t complain.
I was outside the path of totality, but saw one during my childhood. Today I made a pinhole camera and took a quick look before my meeting started and was able to see the shadow of the moon maybe 50%-60% over the sun. When I came back out after my meeting it was cloudy.
Sorry you had clouds :-(
I complain but it was still a great experience :)
Be me, Canadian
Hear about big important eclipse
Go outside, waiting for sun to get covered
Big cloud comes and covers sun
mfw exactly what I was expecting happens
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Yes in East Tennessee. Totally cloud covered and raining to boot.
We’ll always have 2017. That was epic.
I was already on a trip, and to stay to see the eclipse in Texas was going to cost me an extra two grand in plane tickets so I left. Turns out in Texas, it was thunderstorms all day. Back home I got to see a whopping 3% eclipse instead of thunderstorms. Wowee wasn’t even worth looking up.
In 1999 I spent a week in Cornwall (south western tip of the UK), staying in a spot right in the middle of the path of totality for the eclipse that summer. Every day, glorious sunshine, even got a bit burnt. Except one day. Day of the eclipse was thick clouds horizon to horizon. Ended up watching the BBC coverage from an aircraft via a 3" portable TV.
Did get to see the approaching shadow over the ocean, so at least that was pretty cool, but still disappointing.
Don’t think I’ll have another opportunity in my lifetime unless I travel internationally specifically to see one.
Next total eclipse in the UK is 2090, unfortunately.
In Aug 2026 there’s a 90% one though. And if you travel to the right part of Spain for that one it’s another Total.
Shockingly it was a clear beautiful day in Akron Ohio. I’m shocked, tbh.
Yeah I saw it west of Cleveland. A little hazy at times but didn’t affect the experience much
Saw it in the metroparks at Stinchcomb. We really lucked out, great view!
I checked the noaa cloud cover forecast 7 days prior, 2 days, 1 day, 12 hours… My friends in Rochester, NY (pretty sure) got clouded out but Burlington VT had a mild hazy layer of clouds that still offered full view. It blurred some of the corona. I hope you still got to experience that sudden darkness, maybe watch the shadow drift across the cloud layer too.
I traveled to Burlington and it was utterly spectacular.
Say hello to your friends for me, I was in Rochester and also got a great view of the great cloud barrier! 🙃
I’m guessing a lot of people in south Ontario had a similar experience to yours.
Yeah, it feels better to have been with a bunch of people who had the same experience. And it was still cool.
I was in the 90% range. I tried to find the sun and couldn’t, although someone who was a few miles away said they saw part of it.
Had an awesome 3min of double eclipse totality while listening to Total Eclipse of the Heart. It was starting to feel like a triple eclipse.
The sun eclipsed by the moon and the thick clouds, my heart by all three.
It wasn’t ruined, it was a different experience than I expected, and it was fabulous. Turn around, bright eyes
Same here! The totality was still cool to experience, though. This might be the only time in my life I can say that I would have rather been in Cleveland.
