Solar eclipse: Niagara declares state of emergency ahead of rare event

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If you are crazy enough to go to Niagara Falls for the eclipse, here is a guide to some road closures. Scroll down for road closures.

 
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Phil C. McNasty

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right now it's looking like the best weather prospects are in Kingston and Montreal
Or stay locally and hope the Sun peeks out just around eclipse time

 

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Or stay locally and hope the Sun peeks out just around eclipse time

Looks like partly cloudy in Niagara as well. Fears of a mob scene might be overblown. On the other hand, there are people who have had every room in town booked for at least 6 months, and lots of yokels outside the totality band will think they can just come in for a day trip without much traffic. They should have been in the falls for the Walenda walk. A lot of people here are getting the day off, luckily not a holiday everywhere or there would be no doubt about zoo conditions...
 

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Best way to watch totality, is on TV, bunch of suckers travelling all the way to Niagara for a few minutes of darkness, LOL!
 
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You know there will be a TIKTOK challenge to look at eclipse without eye protection.
 

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Best way to watch totality, is on TV, bunch of suckers travelling all the way to Niagara for a few minutes of darkness, LOL!

FWIW, I watched he last partial eclipse from Muskoka and it was kinda neat but nothing special. I think it was 1/2 obstructed.

But a friend of mine planned a motorcycle road trp through the Smoky Mountains (?) t coincide with the total eclipse. He said it was surreal! Fucking awesome and he doesn't swear! He was all set up to take pictures on th tripod but the sudden darkness was spellbinding and he simply didn't want to waste the experience even looking at his camera!
 

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I am not taking chances, will go to Montreal for this. Granted some areas may have more minutes of Totality than Montreal but what does that matter if its cloudy ? Gotta go to where its clear folks.
 
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Phil C. McNasty

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I am not taking chances, will go to Montreal for this. Granted some areas may have more minutes of Totality than Montreal but what does that matter if its cloudy ? Gotta go to where its clear folks
Car, train or plane??
 
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SchlongConery

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Belleville has changed their forecast to mainly sunny

From the current and projected Surface Prognostic Charts and jetstream, the cloud cover will approach from the west and move eastbound.

But if the large area of high pressure is strong, it may slow up the Low from pushing the mid-continent stationary front eastward enough to allow for some clear skies in The Niagara Falls area into Monday. Unfortunately, with this kind of system you don;t know when that low will breakthrough until it does.

The further east you go the better. Sandbanks /Prince Edward County, Kingston, Cornhole would be a surer bet. Sherbrooke Quebec being the surestvand best.

At least in my analysis. Anyone else remember Dave Devall? Or Percy Saltzman?

I really though Dave Devall had a chalk finger! I went to Nursery school with his son and i always asked him if it was genetic and if his finger would turn into chalk! We'd all grab chalk and swing our hands across the blackboard pretendign we were on TV giving the weather forecast! :LOL:




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Niagara Falls is still a far bit off the blue center of totality. The blue line gives you ~ 3 1/2 minutes of darkness. The shadow is a circle and as you move from the center you will cut a cord (section) that has much less totality the farther you are away. The edge of the circle is the orange line. You will note that Port Maitland to Port Colborne is closer to both the blue line and Hamilton than Niagara Falls. That is the direction I'm heading.

As for the comment why not watch it on TV - you can watch life or live it. To be in mid-day darkness for 3 minutes in a once in a life time event - I'd rather live it.
 
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