On Thursday, March 5, 2015 at 8:04:22 AM UTC, wrote:
"Dave Cornwell" wrote in message
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On 04/03/2015 21:57, Dawlish wrote:
On Wednesday, March 4, 2015 at 7:54:27 PM UTC, Nick Gardner wrote:
On 04/03/2015 19:38, wrote:
I've marked this as 'OT' but obviously the weather is very relevant!
I've only just found out this is happening at all and it's going to be
a major event. No totality across the UK of course that passes to the
north of Scotland but here it looks like being around 90%. IIRC Aug
1999 was something like 94% so the events will be comparable.

No not comparable, there is a massive difference in terms of output of heat
and light between 90 and 94%.

Will
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Indeed, and 99% is totally different to 100%. In 1999 it was a very memorable effect as total darkness raced across the sea, plunging from just dim to virtually dark in a second. I had an ex member of USW camping in my garden at the time.

Some lucky people on the Lizard actually got a break in the cloud at the right time.

Here's a picture I took of the 1996 partial eclipse. http://penzanceweather.atspace.com/wpage7.html

Graham
Penzance