Solar eclipse this evening.

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Who's going to be watching the solar eclipse this evening? I hope it's better than the last one back in 1999. That was a total non- event!

Still about 15 minutes away here (the Canaries) but we're only expecting to see maximum 75% totality.

Disappointing! In Yorkshire and it just got slightly less sunny

Wow! Where are you? It didn’t get dark at all in Yorkshire

A bit darker.

It was all a bit underwhelming wasn’t it?

Yes very. Went a bit dark. That's about it.

Great views in north London. Lots of neighbours standing on the streets sharing eclipses glasses with each other and all the passers-by.

Total waste of time on the Isle of Wight, a bit cooler but nothing much else. If hadn't known it was happening wouldn't have noticed any different. 1999 was epic where I used to live. Glad I saw that, this was a wash out.

Same here. It got suddenly cloudy around 5pm, which the only other eclipse watcher told me is an effect of the waning sun.

Thing was a total non-event. The birds did go quiet all at once, but even that was spoiled by a few gulls shrieking. The pigeons got going around 7, a few minutes early at best. No eclipse action to be seen.

On the plus side, sitting by myself on one of the benches with a glass of wine did not feel as weird as I expected - I'll be doing it on more summer evenings 🍷

The 1999 one was great in Canary Wharf! Don't know what everyone's on about - it was really sunny. When the eclipse happened, it went dark and windy (more than usual). We all got an hour off work.

Here in Surrey it went a bit cooler and the light changed to more hazy and golden rather than bright. The 1999 one happened earlier in the day I think, and it went much greyer and cooler. I had the glasses then but did the pinhole cereal box thing this time. It did work, there just wasn’t much to see!

Not perfect but great to see the crescent appear

It got darker in Essex.

Are the ambulances there for potential eye injuries or over-excitement?

Absolutely nothing here where I am in Aberdeenshire. Cloudy. Didnt notice any change in light. Swallows continued their feeding over the barley fields. Always good to see!

What did you think was going to happen?

Picture taken around 1915 this evening. It was very cloudy here (Lanarkshire) so only got quick glimpses

What did people expect? It was a wonderful natural event, not a performance put on to entertain you!

The 1999 one was much more eerie, probably because it was earlier in the day and it did seem a lot darker than today. I was working just off Fleet Street and the whole office went outside to watch it. Today was still good and my son and I had the special glasses.

Aberdeen is the poor man’s Caithness.

Perhaps you were straining too much!

Watched it on Portland in Dorset, was amazing!
This time just had a little street party with neighbours from 8 to 80yrs, really lovely!

Husband had his done a week ago, so no way was he rising it!

I remember the 1999 one and was much more impressed. I was on my 30s so not yoing. I seem to remember it got quite a bit darker - we could hardly notice the difference here in N Wilts
this evening. If I hadn’t known we were having an eclipse I don’t think I would have noticed.

This ^^

The 1999 eclipse was during the day, tonight’s was just like dusk coming a bit early.
I was at work and we all went out into the car park to watch it.

Was walking the dog with my daughter and a lovely family offered me their special solar eclipse glasses to use. Was totally amazing!!!