We got lucky and the clouds parted just in time in my corner of Texas.
this post was submitted on 08 Apr 2024
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It wasn't just luck, the eclipse itself has a tendency to clear out clouds:
https://www.forbes.com/sites/jamiecartereurope/2024/04/08/clouds-may-vanish-during-april-8s-total-solar-eclipse-say-scientists/?sh=5b9771f82ada
Was similar here in Austin - sky has been hazy/cloudy most of the day including the partial eclipse - and then conveniently cleared up for a few minutes exactly around the time of the totality
Not for us :( seemed like the clouds got thickest literally during totality and immediately cleared up after. We only got one little tiny glimmer of it for like 10 seconds.
The one eclipse I saw was in cloud, and I was surprised at how intense the experience still was. At the moment of totality, all the light seemed to suck away quite suddenly, even though it had obviously been getting darker gradually. It felt very eerie and a little frightening.
I was in Cornwall in the UK, and the amusing thing was seeing the sparkle of people's camera flashes going off all along the stretch of coast. I'd love to see those photos. "This might look like a picture of a fence taken at night, but trust me, it was 11am in summer..."
Yes and no. For the clouds that we did have, yes, the eclipse was enough to affect those.
However, for the clouds that we had earlier in the day, and that had been predicted that we might have, would have been far too heavy for eclipse to effect. Unfortunately my sister up in New York ended up in that situation, where it was far too heavy a cloud cover so they didn't get to see anything. We had been predicted that we might have that, but that's the manner in which we got lucky.