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Vidcapper[_2_] · March 6th 15, 06:42 AM 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.

I remember the light level here dropped to about what it would be under
a large thunder cloud.

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Paul Hyett, Cheltenham