"Tudor Hughes" wrote in message
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I doubt very much if the gloom was due to the eclipse. I have
seen three eclipses of similar magnitude in a clear sky, on 25 Feb 1971
(mag 0.66), 12 Oct 1996 (0.61) and today (0.67). The actual
obscuration is less than the magnitude by about 0.1. In each case
there was a just perceptible reduction in the light giving a slightly
unreal effect, as if someone had turned the sun down a bit. Any cloud
obliterates this effect, and now that the Cu+Sc has spread here the
light level is only 5% of that with sunshine, but it is still quite
good daylight. The eye has a huge dynamic range and a change in
brightness of a factor of 2 is not immediately obvious.
The temp reach 15.1°C here at 1140Z but the cloud spread in and
it quickly dropped back to 13°.


Not a chance of seeing anything here due to the hopelessly overcast
conditions but I did think that things seemed rather gloomier than one
might expect at the time of the eclipse. But then I was looking out for
any effects and I'm sure if I didn't know there was an eclipse on I
wouldn't have noticed anything unusual.

Col
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Bolton, Lancashire.
160m asl.