Solar eclipse in Northeast Ohio: Cleveland experiences totality

So as we look up, there's only a small portion of the Sun that's still visible and we'll go through a little process here seconds before

totality

, we'll get some little flashes of light on the outer edge of the Moon. and those will be Bailey's accounts wow, there he is, look at this, he's almost there, he's almost there, you can hear the crowd behind us cheering him on, wow, so if you can, if you can, look out a window, look at the color of the The air around you is turning very flat gray and we're just seconds away from those Bailey beads appearing, then we'll have what's known as the diamond ring, the last little glimpse of the sun before

totality

and when totality happens, you take off your glasses and hopefully, Through these cirrus cirrus we will be able to see the corona of the sun, and this is the only time you can see the corona of the Sun, so I hope we can see how you.

I vaguely remember watching this as a kid and I certainly did. I don't have a NASA expert and an expert meteorologist, like I said, Eclipse Guru standing next to me guiding me through this, tell me right now what we're looking at. Well, there's just a little orange sliver that's all there is and you can see what it is. It's this little orange sliver, but the bet is absolutely correct, if you take off your glasses, don't look at the Sun, look around, the color is like this remember that the sun has a diameter 400 times larger than the diameter of the Moon, but the Moon is 400 times closer to Earth, it's geometric perfection and we're right on this path, we haven't been on the path of totality since 1806 and we won't be again until 2400 something 24 44 24 44 somewhere in Ohio in 2099, so only 75 more years okay, but for Cleveland it's 420 years 2444 is absolutely incredible wow, it's 312 this is the most painful part of the whole process uh, this long and everyone's been waiting uh, it's 313, so we're getting a totality just southwest of Cleveland totality has started in Mansfield we're seconds away from that here in downtown Cleveland here we go there's the crowd let's hear it go down oh wow and it's getting noticeably darker the temperature is going down wow , yeah, just wait holy, it gets better wow don't take off your glasses yet, wow, not yet, not yet, there it is, come on, oh man, and there's Bailey beads, oh my god, oh I got it, we are entirely there, okay, we also have the planet Venus.

Venus is visible right now, wow. all the way down here on Earth the street lights have come on all the Cleland street lights are on you can see the edge of the Shadow behind us and there's so much stuff it's so much brighter to the north wow look at that no I saw this when I was a kid I don't remember so this is so awesome we can see the planet Venus Jupiter is here on the top left of the Moon yeah and if we could see that Diablo comment that Russ told us about earlier of the week, last week it would be to the right of Jupiter.

I can't see it because of those cirrus clouds right now, but I'm going to take a picture because please, I have to. I also see that we have some Bailey beads at the extremes, which is kind of interesting, since we are at

solar

maximum, the sun follows an 11-year maximum and minimum

solar

cycle in 2017, when I was in Jefferson City, we didn't have the Solar maximum but we still had this amazing view. Wow, we're at solar maximum this year, so we're seeing a lot more energy coming out and we might actually see that little flash in the background and stuff.

Well, it could be a mass ejection, a coronal mass ejection, or some kind of Solar Sprite that is coming out of the sun right now and we can see it and we have planes flying above the atmosphere or above the sky. clouds and everything else, so we will have people who will be able to tell us. I don't know for sure, but I will have people who will be able to tell us yes, what's going on up there and where we are. If you look at it right, it is absolutely spectacular and yes, you can see it now on the western horizon.

We're already starting to see the light brightening, but it's getting darker to the east, so we're right below you. We can see a whole ring of brighter, yellow skies around us, and that only happens when you're here, let me ask my two experts how long we'll be on this street, right here, 3 minutes and 50 seconds. Yes, we are counting down and this is almost double the amount of time I had in Jefferson City. Yeah, it's absolutely amazing now that we've turned off the ambient lights and now we can see some of that Corona a little bit better. of the Sun and of course the serum clouds are playing with things a little bit, but I mean, can we see it, oh man, can we see it?

That's amazing, it really is amazing. I was watching network coverage of Guess What in Indianapolis when this happened and the correspondent said it seems like an eternity and at this point you thought this was going to be really quick, but it's a good stretch here, it's been yeah and we only have another minute. There's or two left but it's already getting brighter to get brighter to the west but we can still see Venus there and Jupiter is actually getting a little brighter now so man this is quite 3650 we're counting down and it's starting to get brighter and brighter on our western horizon so again you can see Venus on the bottom right, Jupiter here on the top left and I can't believe Jimmy that we can see that bright spot in the south or at least the bottom of the movement, yeah, and that, and it stayed there the whole time, so it's going to be kind of interesting to see what exactly that is and there's a lot of people watching this, oh yeah, and I was going to say folks. at home listen, go to your backyard if it's safe, thanks for watching us on TV, but go to your backyard and check this out once in a lifetime in Northeast Ohio and here we go, we'll get out of there, have your glasses on.

Here we go diamond ring and here come our Bailey beads which was the fastest 3 minutes and 50 seconds of my life oh man but that's the end of totality in Cleveland now the lights will start to come back on , that is, the sun, the sun. It's starting to shine again, yeah, the city lights are going out, you can see it now, yeah, it's amazing how quickly it got dark when we hit totality, how amazing how quickly it brightened up again now that we're coming out of totality. , If you see. When you look at something white and see strange lines like something moving, you are actually seeing the atmosphere of