Washington: Due to the total solar eclipse in North America on Monday, the sky remained dark in Mexico, US and Canada. NASA has released a video of the total solar eclipse seen in North America. The total solar eclipse lasted for 4 minutes, 28 seconds in some places. The first location in continental North America to experience a total solar eclipse will be Mexico’s Pacific coast at approximately 2:00 p.m. (EDT). The solar eclipse will end less than two hours later, passing over continental North America over the Atlantic coast of Canada.
During a total solar eclipse in the South Pacific, the Moon lines up exactly between the Earth and the Sun. Over the next few hours it will cross North America, enter Mexico, pass diagonally from Texas to Maine, and exit Canada into the Atlantic.
Millions of spectators along a narrow corridor stretching from Mexico to the United States and Canada were anxiously awaiting Monday’s astronomical event – a total solar eclipse – even as forecasters had predicted cloudy skies. The best weather was expected at the end of the eclipse in Vermont and Maine, as well as New Brunswick and Newfoundland.
In such a situation, the largest crowd of eclipse watchers ever gathered in North America. The prospect of up to four minutes of darkness at noon in densely populated thoroughfares, Texas and other hot spots is a big draw. Weather Service meteorologist Alexa Mains said Sunday at the Great Lakes Science Center in Cleveland, “Clouds Dominance is one of the hardest things to predict. At least, it won’t snow.”
This time it was visible for almost twice as long as the solar eclipse seen in the coastal areas of America seven years ago .The next such solar eclipse in America has been seen after about 21 years.
