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Martin Brown · March 20th 15, 11:24 AM posted to uk.sci.weather

On 20/03/2015 11:16, wrote:
Will

I thought you said the other week that none of the general public would even notice it happening?

There were quite a few people out on our street looking and taking photo's, and masses of news about it on rolling news,
this event seems to have got far more coverage than the 199 event did.

I think that is just due to the Brian Cox effect and Astronomy Live (BBC
can be very formulaic at times expect seasonwatch live for all values
of season and before long very probably drying paint watch live).

ISTR BBC did do more or less the same live coverage from Cornwall and an
aircraft for 1999 although I was in France at the time.

The temperature did drop 0.5°C between 0906 and 0933 even though the cloud was breaking
and the sun was coming out, at the same time the N'NE fell light for
about 10 minutes
which could have been a coincidence.

Incident light mid eclipse was down by a factor of 16 here which is
approximately in line with the geometry. The sun is now shining.

Birds were well and truly confused by two dawns in one day.

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Regards,
Martin Brown