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Joe Egginton[_6_] · March 5th 15, 09:56 PM posted to uk.sci.weather

On 05/03/2015 18:14, wrote:
On Thursday, March 5, 2015 at 5:57:26 PM UTC, wrote:
From our back garden in Bracknell there was a notable hush to any bird song that had been going on...

If you didn't notice the dimming then you may have seen the shadows cast on the ground - through dappled light under the leaves of trees you saw countless shimmering crescent like moons (wrong word I know).

I remember looking out for those but didn't see them. But then I was only 93% but you were (according to this thread) 97% so that must be an effect only seen very close to totality. The light did have a very eerie quality about it though, it didn't seem particulary dark as the eyes of course will accustomise but very gloomy. When I took a photo the flash went off, indicating that light levels were like twilight and far below what would be expected on a sunny August morning.

Col

Here in Wolverhampton, it was like twilight. I noticed the temps go
down. If I remember correctly, before the eclipse it was about 20c, yet
just after the eclipse the temp was down to 15c. the shadows under a
birch tree in my garden were crescent shaped. The birds were singing
like it was evening. I took a photo of the sun, which was in some Ac at
the time of the eclipse. You need a magnifying glass but you can see a
crescent-shaped sun.

In my local paper it said in Birmingham there will be a partial eclipse
of 91%. I cannot see a partial eclipse of 91% in Birmingham when the
total eclipse is about 900 miles away. When in August 1999 we had 93%
partial eclipse when the total eclipse was in Cornwall which is about
200miles away.