The countdown begins for the 'Great North American Eclipse,' the longest, darkest and best for 21 years
I write about science and nature, stargazing and eclipses.A composite of the August 21, 2017 total solar eclipse showing third contact, the end of totality, with sunlight beginning to reappear and the array of pink prominences along the limb of the Sun. In exactly five years North America will once again experience a total solar eclipse, but what happens on April 8, 2024, will put the events of August 21, 2017, firmly in the shade. No eclipse will match it until 2045.
A cloudy eclipse? This map shows the cloud cover climatology for April 2024 eclipse based on 1979-2016 ERA-Interim data from the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasting ."It will be easier to prepare people for 2024 that it was for 2017," says Fienberg.
Niagara Falls will tempt many eclipse observers in 2024, but cloud could easily form when the temperature cools during totality.Perhaps the most iconic place in North America within 2024 path of totality is Niagara Falls. It's going to be packed on both sides of the US-Canada border. However, there is a high chance of cloud during totality."Cooling makes clouds," says Kentrianakis, who had to escape cloud at Niagara Falls just prior to an annular solar eclipse there in 1994.
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