Wednesday, March 13, 2024

Nice Eclipse Maps - Part 2

As promised from last week's post here are a couple additional sites that nicely visualize the path of next month's eclipse. The first one is from Bloomberg, How to Find the Best Cities to Watch the Eclipse. One of the best things about this page is that it starts with an animated map tracing the path and degree of size of the moon's shadow at various locations during the course of the eclipse's time frame. Here is a still frame from 3:10 PM Eastern time.

This is followed by a map showing the increases in searches for travel to cities in the path of totality. Little Rock has the largest increase in the United States but Mazatlan was even more popular.

Next, there is a dropdown where you can choose from a number of cities to see how much the sun will be obscured along with a time lapse animation,

 and a map showing your city's place in the bands of obscuration.

as well as a map of average cloudiness, though the color scheme is a bit difficult to understand.

Finally there's the National Eclipse site with maps for each state (just Google Maps with lines) 

and lists of all major towns within the zone of totality. This one shows the start times of totality and is color coded by time zone. 

via National Eclipse
At the end is one showing the percentage of obscuration for those unfortunate cities outside the zone of totality.
via National Eclipse


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