IEM Daily Feature
Friday, 18 August 2017

Eclipse Sky Coverage Forecast

Posted: 18 Aug 2017 05:34 AM

There is great excitement for the full solar eclipse that will transverse the entire CONUS on Monday. The featured map presents a recent NWS forecast of sky coverage at 1 PM CDT on Monday and the path of eclipse totality. For this chart, the darker areas represent locations with fewer clouds forecasted. At this point, the best eclipse viewing would appear to be over the northwestern US. If you are looking for somewhere closer to drive from Iowa, Nebraska appears to be a better bet at this time. Suffice it to say, there has never been this much interest nor forecaster attention given to a sky coverage forecast!

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