On Friday, 20 March 2015 10:17:12 UTC, Nick Gardner wrote:
On 20/03/2015 10:00, Ken Cook wrote:
Good view here, thank goodness for the westerlies and Pennine cloud shadow. Plenty of blue sky and just enough stratus at times to view without shades. Believe it or not it went dark! One of my outside security lights came on, but the birds continued to sing throughout. Noted, Copley birds sing during eclipses!
Temp fell by 1.6C and wind speed fell by 5KT. However, there would be many other factors influencing the weather.
Lots of cloud but it was thin enough to get a good view. It went darker
than I thought it would.
The birds started singing just before maximum covering then went silent
as it went rather gloomy before starting their 2nd dawn chorus of the day..
The solar radiation peaked with 177 W/mē at 08:40 and then declined to a
very gloomy 19 W/mē at 09:30. Recovering rapidly now (243 W/mē at 10:14).
Temperature only fell by 0.3C but its rapid climb from was halted and it
just levelled off from 08:40 until 10:05.
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Nick Gardner
Otter Valley, Devon
20 m amsl
http://www.ottervalley.co.uk
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Good view here of 85% eclipse.
Had kept my black out specs from 1999.
I was surprised at how bright it stayed.
Would not know one was going on unless told.
There was no wind before, during or after.
Quite boring really.
Len
Wembury, SW Devon
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