Originally Posted by
Eujeanie
That looks very similar to what we saw?
Did ANYONE have it get midnight pitch black dark??
won't happen. totality looks the same everywhere along the path it's more of a "dusk" type thing than total darkness. quite a bit of light still makes it around the "edges" of the moon.
in the coverage on the NASA website from Nebraska, you could hear the crickets start chirping though and the announcer "claimed" that if a rooster was present, he would have crowed when the sun re-emerged.
in reality this totality was quite short. the 2024 eclipse will peak at nearly 5 minutes of totality in contrast to today's max of 2m30sec -ish. a longer totality will have more of an influence on animal behavior. i am hoping to fly fish on the white river in AR during the totality of 2024 and see if it results in an insect hatch which will send the trout into a feeding frenzy.