Meeting video transcript
Total Solar Eclipse 2024 reports
- Montreal, Quebec – Brian & Nathan Hellner-Mestelman
- Ice crystal 15º ring
- Travelled from southern Ontario
- Montreal, Quebec – Randy Enkin
- Family eclipse experience covered by a CBC journalist
- Ice crystal 15º ring
- Expo 67 island had 150,000 observers
- Interviews: CFAX, Times-Colonist, CBC
- Observed: “pink” fingers coming inward to the Moon
- Temperature drop
- Eclipse cookies
- Windsor, Ontario – Chris Gainor
- Drove south to get into the path of totality in Colchester Harbour to observe over Lake Erie
- High cloud didn’t diminish the view
- 1979 eclipse was in bitter cold, 2017 in Oregon
- 1.5 minutes of Totality
- First eclipse for family – they were impressed
- Video of the eclipse experience
- St. Catherines, Ontario – Lauri Roche
- Heavy cloud, but saw some glimpses of partial eclipses, but no totality
- Lots of observers at Brock University didn’t see much
- Temperature drop
- Sudden darkening during totality, despite not being able to observe it
- 30km west of Montreal, Quebec – Chris Purse
- Drove from Kingston, Ontario to western Quebec on 401
- Hazy conditions before totality
- Diamond Ring was spectacular
- Lots of detail visible during totality
- Temperature drop
- Lots of traffic on the roads as they drove back to Ottawa
- Ron Fisher
- Daughter in Hamilton reported the sky cleared enough to experience totality through the clouds
- Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario – Jill Sinkwich
- Unfortunately thick clouds obscured the whole eclipse
- Temperature drop, sounds, darkness
- Mazatlan, Mexico – reported by Dave Payne on behalf of Joe Carr
- Photos by Joe aboard the Discovery Princess cruise ship offshore from Mazatlan
- Bill Weir and his wife and John McDonald were also aboard
- Miles Waite was nearby on the sister ship Ruby Princess
- Some thin high cloud, but beautiful conditions
- Eclipse cookies
- Diamond Ring
- Several prominences
- More complete report from Joe and John next week
- 2024 Eclipse Weather – Reg Dunkley
- Forecast models
- Review of weather conditions and forecasts along the path of totality
- Animation showing the Moon’s shadow travelling across North America
- Review of weather conditions over Victoria
- Partial Eclipse from Victoria – David Lee & Kirsten Pedersen
- Despite the weather and 17% eclipse, attendance at the Centre of the Universe event was very good
- Nothing much to see through heavy cloud
- CHEK and CTV interviews by David Lee and Dennis Crabtree
- Next Total Solar Eclipses