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From South Texas:
More images from SpaceWeather.com
From San Diego:
From Tinian Island:
More images from Yahoo! News
As expected, most of the webcams I checked didn’t face anywhere near west. The one in the Quad Cities (of Illinois and Iowa) faced just a bit too far north of west. In St. Louis and Tulsa, the cams faced the right direction, but there were buildings blocking the sunset. In Detroit, it was just too darn cloudy on the western horizon. But in Quincy, Illinois and Dallas, Texas, conditions were picture-perfect for a sunset eclipse captured via webcam:
Above: Looking west from Dallas at 9:30 PM Eastern time.
Below: Looking west from Quincy at 9:15 PM and 9:25 PM Eastern time.
(Quincy images courtesy of WGEM-TV in Quincy, IL. Dallas images couresty of KMOV-TV in St. Louis, MO.)
In a few hours, a solar eclipse will begin sweeping across the globe. It will be visible in far eastern Asia, across the Pacific Ocean, and through much of the United States — but unfortunately not the East Coast. However, you can view the eclipse from the comfort of your own home, over the Internet!
There are three major eclipse webcasts that I know of:
There are also many general-purpose webcams across America that may show live images of the partially-eclipsed sun, if the weather permits and if the cams are pointed in the right direction. Except for Sedona, AZ, the eclipse will take place at sunset in all the cities below. I can make no guarantees about the webcams, but here are some that I have found. All times listed are Eastern time, regardless of the time zone of the city.
Cities where “maximum eclipse” occurs before sunset:
Cities where the maximum visible eclipse is at sunset:
For more information, as always, go to SpaceWeather.com.
Click here to read what I wrote about the Newington High School fires of June 6, 1996.
Click here to see pictures from the fires.
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Categories: Connecticut & Newington
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Okay, so the Hartford Whalers don’t exist anymore, and Dominek Hasek doesn’t play for the Buffalo Sabres anymore. But still, the Stanley Cup finals between the Former Whalers (Carolina) and the Former Sabre Star’s New Team (Detroit) is sort of a proxy battle between my home city, Hartford, and Becky’s home city, Buffalo.
And after watching Hasek give up the game-winner in overtime to former Hartford star Ronnie Francis, all I can say is: Take that, Buffalo!
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Categories: NHL Hockey
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A personal pilgrimage
One year ago Monday, I had a bit of downtime during a weekend trip to New York City, so I decided on a whim to ride the subway to New York’s tallest skyscraper and take the elevator up to the observation deck. On Monday, I did the same thing — but my destination wasn’t the same building. Of course, that’s because New York’s tallest buildings, the World Trade Center’s Twin Towers, were destroyed in the horrible terrorist attack of Sept. 11, 2001, and the Empire State Building has now tragically re-assumed the title of the Big Apple’s tallest skyscraper.
Since I can never again return to the “Top of the World” observation deck that I visited on June 3, 2001 — nor to the 107th-floor gift shop where I bought the New York Beanie Baby now known as Unity Bear — I did the next-best thing Monday, making a pilgrimage to the observation deck of the Empire State Building, from where Unity Bear and I looked out at the beautiful views of New York, and stared wistfully toward the hole in the skyline where the World Trade Center once stood. (For more on Unity Bear, click here.)
I also visited the area near Ground Zero and walked across the Brooklyn Bridge on Sunday. And that was just the tail end of a wonderful weekend in which Becky came to town and we saw “Cabaret” on Broadway, toured Central Park, and strolled through Greenwich Village, among other things. Check back soon for more photos of our weekend, including my parents’ 25th anniversary party Friday night!
