Eclipse

[joeluke]

What was the big deal?

It was the usual media hype which encouraged people to behave like sheep and go OTT over something trivial

Much ado about nothing

[jno]

overast here and didn't see a thing; maddeningly, a couple of hours later it was a beautiful, clear day. (And today it's cold and grey again.) I'd have liked to see it, though.

[Mosaic]

It went awful cold here - and the birds definitely didn't shaddap. One advantage of Lancashire's murky skies was we could gaze directly at the eclipse without risking.....hang on --- where's the kwebordd.....

[Sqad]

Yes......I have a certain amount of sympathy with the post of Joeluke, as i have seen several solar events in my lifetime, some partial and some total, but i would be pushed to describe any of them as.."magical."

[Prudie]

I would love to have experienced it, I'm not knocking the event itself just pointing out that for many of us it didn't actually happen. If I hadn't known there was an eclipse due then I wouldn't have noticed anything different to a normal cloudy day and maddeningly like jno an hour later we had a beautiful cloudless sky for the rest of Friday.