Partial solar eclipse for the UK ~ Friday 20th March, 2015

[GloriaSmud]

The UK won’t get totality but depending on where you are, 80-90% of the sun should be covered. More info here.
Let’s hope for clear skies!

ugh thick cloud

what a shame....It was clear skies yesterday

s'not fair !

Cloudy here in W Yorks

Will be walking to play group at 9.30 which will be odd! Will it be really dark or still light enough to see? That's probably a really stupid question

You are not the only one, lovelyclaycup.

I'm ridiculously excited and no one in real lfe cares.At all. Sadly despite being in the sw I don't think I'm going to be able to see anything.

Have you all seen this? www.met.reading.ac.uk/outreach/newex_2015/index.html

Not very hopeful that cloud cover is going to be anything but totally overcast.

Sunshine and mostly clear skies here

DS has been given the option of staying home to watch and go into school late (authorised by the school) or go in at normal time and watch a live broadcast with his friends in the hall. Guess which he's chosen? Still, it means I get the eclipse glasses all to myself

Gloria DD1 is at the uni event in Vicky Park. It obviously takes a major solar event to get a student out of bed before noon when they don't have lectures. It may also be the free bacon butty she has been promised

Thick cloud here on SE coast - most disappointed.

We have amazing clear skies here in Berlin, but are only going to get 75% cover because we're further south than the UK. It's due to start in 15 minutes, at it's strongest in an hour or so.

I've tested out my colander on a sheet of paper and it works wonderfully.

DD1 will be flying from Germany to Gatwick for the entire duration of the eclipse, but we suspect the cabin crew will insist all the blinds are drawn.

thick cloud Devon

Thick cloud bedfordshire - boo

Completely cloudy here. How disappointing

More cloud now in Edinburgh. but still patches of blue sky

Reading way here, nothing to report.

Taken at 8:27

Trying to blow cloud away here as we won't see much at the moment. Sun has been peaking through

Started here (Leicester) just a little bit taken out of the sun.
Woollybacks ~ it's the bacon butty that did it!

Wavered over keeping dd3 home to watch as she won't see it at school (nursery class too high risk!)
Dd1 was in my tummy last time. Now she's on work experience!

I'm in the W.Midlands. Had been preparing myself for poor weather all week but it's actually brightened up quite a bit!

I had a contact lense check in Vision Express yesterday and the number of people who came in asking for glasses clips. They kept repeating that they don't recommend anyone look at the sky.

I guess I'll go and stand outside and watch it get dark, though!

Sun?(London) What sun? Do bacon butties make the clouds go away?

Bright sunshine here (for now)!

of everyone who doesn't have thick low cloud. I can just about see where the sun is but there are at least two layers of cloud covering, the lower one is verging on mist.

Never mind. I saw the 99 eclipse over Capel cliffs and it was perfectly clear then.

Cloudy in Berkshire. Remember trying to get DD excited about the eclipse when she was a baby and she fell asleep. She's not going to notice it this time either.

Cloudy in Northants, but sun is visible and just saw it a bit using my glasses from the 1999 eclipse, hoping cloud breaks up more.

Just got back school run and will venture out in the garden with a

Bright sunshine here in Shropshire, excited! not sure what dcs schools will be doing.

Sun out in Northants, not for long I suspect.

It's trying to brighten up. Hoping it isn't going to be cloudy for too much longer. Brief glimpse of sunshine coming through a thinner patch in the cloud just now.