Good question! I also have question too!
Whether totality is different from others? Cloud is one of the reason?
This is my first time to see total solar eclipse. Unfortunately, the weather condition on 22 July 2009 at Shanghai was really bad - cloudy and heavy rain!
Before totality, Shanghai was mostly cloudy, with intemittet sunny but only happend in a very short period of time.
Around 8:50am, started raining... 9:20am, rain sudden came down heavily!! no hope to see totality which exptected to be happend around 9:38am...
nothing to see...I only "felt" the sky was sudden dark for around 5 mins...
Yes, it was really dark as night during the period of totality.
After that, I asked our group leader of Shanghai eclipse observation group, Mr Yue, whether totality was so dark as I never seen total solar eclipse before!
Anyway, wonderful experience. |