 The thank you for coming out. It's a beautiful day. I was delighted to see a success that should come to us from yesterday, so I'm really glad to have you all out. We're seeing the sun today, which I will just grab here via receipt based from the school district. We've already used them in there. This is the sun with Robert's assistance we will demonstrate. And is it Haynes or Haynes? Haynes. Robert Haynes is from the National Weather Service. He's located over at South Burlington, and he has been kind enough to come and talk about the solar eclipse with us. And we were delighted to have actually be able to find some idea of what we're in for. So do you want to do that now or do you want to wait? Why don't we do it now? Okay, sounds good. You tell me. Just the idea of like the... Yeah, what's going to happen, yeah. So the main picture that we have here, as we go through the day on April 8th, generally what we expect to take place, every two times a year the sun is going to be, or at least the moon is going to be cycling around in such a way that it obscures part of the sunlight over the earth. And so the moon's orbit is not quite level between the earth and the sun, so that's why it happens so uncommonly. And as you can see, to scale, the moon is quite a bit smaller than the sun. So as a result, typically the area that sees the blocking of the sunlight between the moon is going to be very, very small. So you can imagine just this small piece of the moon, you're going to have light coming out of the sun and only a small area is going to have complete and total darkness, whereas some is going to be having a little bit of sunlight from an angle where you'll see a little bit of the partial eclipse. That would be called the penumbra. So that's going to be the general picture of what happens. The moon is going to be continuing its cycle, and so it'll be a very brief moment where the moon cuts across and wherever that small area where the angle is just right, you'll see the area of totality. And Burlington is included in that area of totality, and it'll be the first instance, I believe it was 1932 as the year, and it'll be several more years before that takes place again. So we're all very excited to experience the eclipse. I got to experience the eclipse that took place in 2017 to observe just the instance of totality and the 360 degree sunset, very impressive stuff. So we're very excited for the eclipse, and I am Robert Haynes with the National Weather Service in Burlington, and we're going to be talking a little bit about what we expect weather-wise from the eclipse and some of the things that you can possibly see assuming we don't have any cloud cover. All right, so just to give you just a very quick brief view of who we are with the National Weather Service and why we care about this eclipse, part of our mission is providing weather, water, and climate data. The sun is the most important part of Earth's climate. It provides us all the heat that we need, and how the Earth absorbs the sun's radiation is how we get all of the different temperatures across the area. And the fact that we're going to have some of our sunlight blocked for three whole minutes is going to affect our weather. So we're concerned with that as how it affects our weather. And our vision is not quite so much the topic of today, but it's helping people make decisions based on the weather information we provide. And there's 122 of us offices, 120 in the contiguous United States, and so we cover the area here in Vermont and Northern New York. And so with all the excitement here, we have prepared a page that if you go to weather.gov slash BTV slash Eclipse 2024, most of the things in this presentation are going to have, you can find again on this webpage so that you can review some of the weather details that we expect as we approach Eclipse Day. And so here is the idea of the Eclipse Track and the timing of it. So we'll let this GIF loop back to the beginning here. So you can see the area of darkness there, that would be the area where it's night. And so as night is falling here in the eastern hemisphere, the sun is going to be tracking up across the United States from Mexico and then exiting across Canada. That small black dot that you see, that is the area of totality. So again, the moon is much smaller to scale than the sun. And so as a result, a very small area sees totality, but you can see a wider region is going to have some partial blocking from the moon as it makes its journey across the skies. So here is a map of when we expect the timing in our area. Here you can see the partial eclipse is far south and 85% as far south as Massachusetts, getting closer to Long Island and towards Port Gray. But as you get towards our area, there'll be Buffalo, Watertown, Burlington and far northern New Hampshire and Maine that's going to be in the path of totality. Generally the time frame across here is about 3.28pm. That is the expectation for when we are going to see that. And so that'll be the perfect time of day, almost the point where the sun is going to be near the top of the sky. So we should have a fairly good view of the solar eclipse. Alright, so here is an animated gif kind of demonstrating what I was trying to show earlier of the moon moving in front of the sun in such a way that it causes a little bit of a shadow across the earth. Again, trying to point out some of the angular waves here. So if you're perfectly near the center of it, you'll be near the path of totality. But some of the sun's rays at an angle will be the area where only a partial eclipse takes place. So again, being in the area of the full shadow is known as the Umbra. And the area that is in a partial shadow is the Panumbra. So can you hit pause on that? No, it's a gif. It's just going to keep looping. So you know the cone inside, is that the point at which it touches whatever it is? Is that totality? Yeah, this small, narrow area of slightly darker is going to be where the totality would occur. And the other part, is that 85% or is that total? It's not to scale. It's just to kind of demonstrate the idea. Alright, and so here are some facts about the solar eclipse. And so a solar eclipse, of course, as we've mentioned before, happens when the sun's light is blocked by the moon. A solar eclipse will always happen in the daytime. Just naturally you have to be able to see the sun in order for you to observe the eclipse. And if you're in the path of totality like we are, you'll notice a 360 degree sunset where everything goes dark for about three minutes. Having been in the eclipse in 2017, I can say it's quite impressive. Even at about 90% when the moon is blocking the sun, there's still quite a bit of daylight. It becomes a little bit like the sepia browns of the evening. But as you get to the totality, it's almost like the snap of a finger where it just goes dark. Very impressive stuff. And so I hope the region does get to experience that because it is very neat when you're in that path of totality to have that sudden change to the darkness of night. Tennessee. Yep, the previous eclipse kind of cut across the central part of the United States. So here's another view of the path of totality again just to remind us that it's going to cut roughly between Rochester, Syracuse, Montpelier, Burlington. All of these towns are going to be in the path of totality. So essentially, if you're anywhere in northern Vermont, you should be at a good viewing spot to observe the solar eclipse. Now I'll make one kind of note as far as weather patterns go. So dealing with weather patterns, we have the Adirondack mountain range and the Green Mountain range. Oftentimes if we do happen to have a northwest wind, we'll often have clouds pile up on the western side of the Adirondacks and on the western side of the Greens. And then occasionally those clouds will develop in waves. So as far as where we typically see that the Champlain Valley is usually immune to that type of stuff as well as parts of the St. Lawrence Valley. But the closer you are to terrain, the more likely you are to experience things like wave clouds that develop off of our mountains. All right, so to mention some of the things that you can expect during this eclipse. So as the moon covers the sun, the sky will get dark. You'll start to see that sort of dusk dawn type thing where it's edging towards nighttime, but it's very slow process. But the change over to that full night type look happens very quickly. One of the things, if you have your ears peeled, listen out for wildlife that may react differently. A lot of animals that prefer daylight will be a little confused by the situation probably, where they may go silent. But on the other hand, you may hear things like crickets starting to chirp. Or you may hear birds that start to sing as well thinking that it's about time to either wake up and or go to bed. Now as far as the temperature goes, the temperature is expected to drop anywhere between 4 and 10 degrees as a result of the eclipse. We rely on that solar heating to provide us our sense of warmth. Even just three minutes can result in that 4 to 10 degree temperature change. So in April, our average temperature is starting to creep up into the 50s. So if it's a perfectly average day, we'll probably be in the 50s and may see temperatures drop into the 40s during the moment of totality. So before and after, there will also be, if you have colanders, that would be something good to bring along with you with the eclipse. You'll actually notice the sliver of the moon cutting into the rays through the holes. Yes? I remember an eclipse, I think it was in the middle of the 60s. And I was outside and I can remember looking down at the shadows from the leaves because I was in New York City area. And seeing those crescents just all over the place on the sidewalk there from the shadows. Yeah, it's very neat. You can actually also do it with your hands if you kind of do your fingers three ways. You can sometimes get a view of it just using your own fingers as well. So take a colander with you so you can see the crescent shape of the moon starting to move into the path of the sun. Yeah? So why not a fickle in a car? Is the colander better than a fickle? Mainly just because there's so many. Okay. You could do it with a clip or whatever as well. Why do you mean that? Yeah, so think about our scale of the moon here and just how it's so much smaller compared to the sun. So along the edges you'll still be seeing a little bit of the sun's light. You'll see the corona around the edge of the sun. And so with the nighttime being a full moon type thing, you're seeing the moon reflecting the sun's light during that time frame. So it'll have that appearance where you can still observe some of the light coming from the corona. But as far as the nighttime visibility, it'll be, it's roughly similar to the reflection that you get to see on a full moon night. Which is maybe slightly lighter than true like darkness at night when it's no full moon. Is your question what's like it? Oh, yeah. I think I understand what you mean now. So the, yeah, the part of the moon that we're observing is the dark side of the moon. We're not seeing any part of the moon that's being reflected by the sun's light. Which is why it appears like such a black sphere as it moves across. Because you're saying that just around the very edges, the light seeps out of the edge. Yeah, there's still a little bit of light seeping around the edge. Thank you. Can you talk about Bailey's beads? Yes, I will. I think it is. Let's double check. Looks like it, it's going to be very close. It looks like it's right at the edge. This map does not have Montreal listed, but you can see the lights there. So it may be very close to the path of totality. I'm not sure. But I've been talking to NASA people for a while. Everybody has been getting the alert. You know, getting some restaurants. It's through the whole port of totality that's swamped in the U.S. and Mexico and Canada that it's. Well, probably only the cool towns that people live in. It's a big moment. Yeah, it's certainly a big moment. Having viewed the eclipse, I kind of have that experience of like, wow, this is so cool. I'd love to see it again. But I imagine if someone has not seen it before, they might say something more. Why would I go travel to see three minutes of darkness? But the fact is, it doesn't really traverse. Again, just to scale, the moon is so much smaller than the sun. And the moon's orbit is not level with the earth and the sun again. And so the area is going to change wherever any solar eclipse takes place. And as we noted earlier, the last eclipse to take place in the Burlington area was in 1932. So if you're planning to stay in the area to view any eclipse, you're going to miss out on it maybe for another 60 to 70 years. So in that sense, there's a lot of hype because that just generates, in a sense, a once in a lifetime thing then. Alright, so here I have an example of Tennessee cooling during the middle of the 2017 eclipse. And so, unfortunately, I could not get the color scale on this software to adjust or like stay fixed. And so you'll notice the color shading will adjust with temperature. So on this day, the eclipse happened right around 19 UTC there. And so this hour here is the, oh, it may be 21s? Or is it 15, 16? It should be this hour then. There it is. So that's the hour that the eclipse takes place. And so if you observe closely, you'll notice Tennessee during the eclipse at around 1.30 or 2 o'clock in central time. It went anywhere from being about 90 to 94 degrees to being 80 to 84 degrees in a lot of those mountain spots. And almost as soon as the eclipse was done, the temperatures almost immediately rebounded back into the 90s across central Tennessee. Well, all of Tennessee really. I'll let it loop one more time for you to get a view of the eclipse taking place. So closely watch the hours between 17 and 19 on this chart. There's the eclipse taking place, a lot of mid-80s, and then right back into the 90s right before the sun sets. Time between, you know, for the sun, once it comes back online, that it immediately, it just goes immediately back. That's kind of amazing how quickly the temperatures can rise just a few seconds later. There will be probably some variability. If the atmosphere is very dry, then it'll be a lot easier for temperatures to rebound, but it'll also be a lot easier for the temperatures to sink. So if it's a very dry weather day, our temperature is probably going to cool to full 10 degrees. But if we're very wet, we're probably looking at the ballpark of a 4-degree temperature drop. People think they'll have an idea four days before or a white day before. I know you think 10. Yeah. But what do you think? Yeah, I'm hearing a quorum starting to kind of form here. We have, generally, I'd say sky cover forecasts get most accurate, more like three days in advance. I wouldn't even be generous with our sky cover forecast. Unless we're looking at a big area of high pressure, larger high pressure systems tend to be a little bit more predictable. So we're kind of hoping for a large, expansive area of high pressure, because then that makes our job very easy. Those are very simple to forecast. But if we have any kind of low pressure around, we'll be ringing our hands. We'll be a little nervous. So I do have at least some good news. Even if there is a lot of cloud cover, you will still see the transition to darkness for those three minutes. It won't be as cool not being able to observe some of the phenomena that I'll have here up in a moment. But you'll at least still get that sense of darkness. And my joke is that it'll be something like 34 degrees and raining and then the sun will get blocked and it'll cool enough that it turns to snow or something. That would be our luck. So here, before we get into some of the phenomena, just a quick reminder of some of the safety tips as far as observing the eclipse here. So I'm going to start this video. And on their retina was a present-shaped wound. That's very interesting and very frightening. So safety is important to observing the eclipse. It doesn't take very much time for that sunlight to damage your eye. So make sure until you see that moment of totality, and the video showed some of the phenomena that you'll see right before totality, like Bailey's Beads. You'll observe those kind of phenomena right before totality. When you no longer see those objects, when you see the corona, you'll even see things like stars appearing in the sky because of the darkness. That'll be the moment that you can safely take off your eclipse glasses in view. And then as it noted, as you start to see light coming back out, when you start to see the diamond-type shape as the crescent of the moon is starting to move away, that's the moment to put the sunglasses or eclipse glasses rather back on. Where is it advised to get those glasses? What? I'm sorry? Where is it advised to get those glasses? I have some. We're going to keep it down low, but I've got with you to give out to people who are here to get my best friend. So I've heard that the reason not to look at it directly is that you know when you've got a magnified lens, and probably you're a little used to sight it and bird grass or bugs or anything like that, your lens in your eye is the same thing, and so when it hits your eye it concentrates the same kind of thing, and that's why the birding happens. What do you think about it from that perspective when you've got such a magnitude? It's like an app shooting. So if it's cloudy we're not going to need the glasses at all? Yeah, if we can't see the sun then we won't need the eclipse glasses, and hopefully it won't be cloudy. But then just even outside of any under the table eclipse distribution of glasses, there are a lot of other libraries, some town halls, and there's also a list on our eclipse page at weather.gov. There is a website in there that lets you know how to find reputable vendors for those eclipse glasses. So let's talk about the safety in the three stages here of before totality, during totality, and after totality. So before the moon completely covers the sun you will need those specialized eye protection. You'll need those eclipse glasses to view the sunlight safely. But during totality once the sun is no longer visible, again you'll see the corona and nothing else. The sky will be completely dark, you again should be able to view things like stars. That is the moment where it's safe to be able to take off your eclipse glasses to view it. As soon as you see even the slightest hint of the sun reappearing it's time to put back on that eye protection. To ensure that you keep your eyes safe. Yep, about three minutes. Indeed, so soak it in while you can. Alright. No, go ahead. I know that during the live stream, so that if you wanted to listen along, you'll hear what's going on. And I think that their plan is to say, it's safe to take off your glasses now, please put your glasses back on. But I'm wondering if the National Weather Service is going to be, I think some of the local TV stations are also doing live. Being to help people understand what's going on and to know when it's safe to do stuff like that. Is that the National Weather Service doing that? It may be a little challenging for us to do that. We don't have a streaming service that we can take on any of our government devices that we could use to go live on the eclipse day. So then our only avenue would be social media. But it's very rare for your social media to immediately pick up things like those, it's safe to view now, things in a three minute time span. So probably not. And the truth about the Fairbanks Museum where, when Jamie Lynn Holmes was going to be in your limited live stream, is that it went a different time. Right? So because of your location, that kind of fine tuning, I wouldn't trust it anyway. And think about people around where else they're going to be looking at it. Yeah, that's also true. Gotta consider the location as well. Like St. Johnsbury will be five minutes later than the Adirondacks and things like that. So thanks for bringing that up. Alright, so here are some of the things that, assuming we'll have a good view of the sun, we'll be able to see. So Bailey's Beads will form right at the moment before totality takes place. And so Bailey's Beads are forming just like Earth. The moon has an uneven surface. There are a lot of hills and valleys in the moon. And so right before totality, you'll be seeing the sunlight streaming between some of those valleys. And that's what forms the phenomena known as Bailey's Beads. Unfortunately, I don't know much about Bailey. The other thing you might observe here is the diamond ring effect. So this will happen probably towards the very end of totality. The diamond ring effect occurs as the crescent of the moon is starting to pull away from the sun. And so you'll probably notice something that looks like a little bit of an arc of light. And this will mark the end of the eclipse happening. Yeah, I'm not entirely sure as to the exact reason how it produces that diamond ring effect. It is moving in. Start moving and then the sun will start coming through. Yeah, maybe that is part of it. The sunlight's rays do get here very fast. So I'm not sure how much we're able to capture some of those subtle features. One of the other things you may observe right before totality takes place, if you're observing you may notice something known as shadow banding where since light is one of those weird things, is it a wave? Is it a particle? I don't think anyone knows much about that physics debate and all of the fun that that entails. But the sun roughly behaves like a wave. So shadow banding will be as the totality's taking place, you may notice some of those streaks where there's a little bit lighter patch, a little bit darker patch streaming through. Usually along the edges of buildings will be the areas that you're kind of seeing that. And maybe something similar is happening with the diamond ring effect, but that's postulation on my part. I do not know. And so then finally, the last thing, of course, that you'll see in totality, you will be able to observe the corona. And so the sun's atmosphere and all of the rays of light will continue to, of course, go outside of wherever the moon is shining. So you'll be able to see the sun's rays beyond the moon as well. And so that would be the corona. Now, sometimes you may be able to see some pockets of pinkish hues around the edge of the eclipse. I couldn't really quite see it in this photo, but I think you can also see a little bit of a pink hue maybe at the corners as well. The reason the moon exactly covers the sun, tell me if I'm wrong, you said the moon is 93 million times smaller than the sun, and it's 93 million miles away from us. You could probably explain that better. Yeah. Why does the moon exactly cover the distance on it? Yeah, just the, even though the scale is so much smaller compared to the sun, just the far distance from it lets it have us, lets us see this very small area, but it lets us see it as if it were completely covering the sun. So, indeed, it absolutely is. All right. So those are the big three phenomena that you'll get to see with the eclipse. So hopefully if we can view the eclipse, look out for Bailey's Beads, look out for the Diamond Ring, and of course enjoy the awe-inspiring sight of getting to see the corona in total darkness. Now, I've mentioned all the positives. I've got to kind of, I guess, let things down a little bit. Our climatology for cloud cover is not good at this part of the world. Historically, April is one of our cloudiest months of the year, especially across the northern half of the United States. Our cloud climatology, this gray shading is about 70 to 80 percent. So overall, we are more likely to observe clouds than sunlight in our area. Over the last few years, we've had several actually years where we've had less than 50 percent or less sky cover. So maybe there's some hope in the fact that, I don't know, last year was 30 percent. So there's some years where there's two years in a row of lack of clouds, but we'll see. If I could offer again some other slightly good news. The distribution here, this is just a lot of math stuff, basically the higher the bar, the greater the percentage of observations. And so it tends to be on the extremes here. It's either overcast or more likely to lean clear or few. So if anything, it's less likely to be partly or mostly cloudy and maybe more likely just to be straight overcast or clear. So it'll be one of the other extremes. And then Montpelier is even more so of a significant just either clear or overcast than compared to the Burlington area. So actually maybe Montpelier might be the better spot to find a view of that. I would typically think of the Champlain Valley as being the less cloudy but can't deny the charts. All right. So here is some weather climatology for the day. So that's the cloud cover part of the equation. Our high temperature averages about 51. Our low temperature averages about 33. So naturally we'll all want to make sure we have our coats if we see our seasonal averages. We usually see 43% of days in our period of record here in Burlington have observed some measurable precipitation. So I would label that as the number of precipitation days at 43%. And the number of days on April 8th that involved some level of snow, 19%. So roughly a fifth of a chance for snow on April 8th. But at least our odds are greater than 50% for no precipitation, right? The record high for April 8th is 73 so it could be quite warm and the record high low temperature is 54. The highest precipitation that's been observed on April 8th is just shy of 3 quarters of an inch and the greatest snowfall observed on April 8th is 4.9 inches. So there is a chance that there could be snow involved but we'll see. The lowest temperatures it could be about as cold as 28 degrees during the day as the eclipse is taking place with the low temperature as low as 11. You said earlier that by the Friday before we're going to have a pretty good sense of what it's going to be like on Monday. Yeah I think so. As far as the sky cover, definitely Friday we may have a little bit of a better angle on the temperatures and things like that and whether or not it could rain. And I know a lot of people are going to be coming out of town to see this eclipse and so a lot of people from out of town are not going to be aware of things like the dangers of cold water when they come here to view the eclipse. And so that's going to be one of our big concerns of the National Weather Service is communicating cold weather hazards. It only takes water at temperatures below 50 degrees to result in immediate incapacitation. So if anyone is planning any type of water activities where they're going to be hopping in the water absolutely wear a life vest. And so our life preserver have that object on hand because we warn the people who are coming from out of town if you kind of see that happening. We want to try and keep everyone safe from the dangers of cold water because again we're going to have a lot of people from out of town who aren't familiar with the fact that our water is going to be still cold at this time of year. Our water temperature can be as warm as 40 to 43 so that is well below the threshold for immediate incapacitation. And it could be as cold still as 32 to 34. Given how the year is gone it will probably be somewhere I would say in the middle to higher range of that bar but still it's going to be plenty cold out there. So again if anyone is thinking of water activities on that day maybe encourage abundant, abundant caution. As we get closer to the eclipse as we prepare ourselves you can use our weather page at weather.gov.btv and we regularly update this especially as we draw closer and closer to the event updates will probably be coming out on the day of every three hours. So if you go to our web page at weather.gov.btv all of the points on the map on the web page are clickable and what you can do is you can bookmark that. Every point on the map has its own URL specific to that point. So once you found the location you want you can bookmark your location and if you're not quite satisfied with where you clicked on the map you can click again on this map here to adjust where that green box is. And that'll have all the different details that you'll want as far as the weather forecast. The top stuff with all of the icons that everyone knows and loves that is those are based off 12 hour forecasts so they won't have the most detail. The more details will be written out in this text here and so it'll have things like showers between 1 and 2, showers before noon it'll have some of those details involved. And then if you want to go even further what you can do is there is all the way at the top there an hourly weather forecast that you can click and there you'll be able to view the hourly weather forecast on this line chart. The design is a little archaic but it has the weather details on an hour by hour basis and that can be helpful in terms of planning and things like that. So if you're really wanting hour by hour forecast I would recommend clicking that hourly weather chart for information wherever you're going to be as the day approaches. Oops, that's not quite where I wanted to end. So I do have here, I have a couple of things that demonstrate the last several days this was put together by Wisconsin the university out there and I'm totally blanking on the rest of its name so they compiled a list of satellite images all on April 8th over the last several years. So here's 1998 here, here's 1999 and they've superimposed the path of totality over the last several years so you can see our tendency to have a lot of stormy weather but there are also some days that are relatively clear so there's a chance either way that things could go in our favor or things could be very cloudy. Yeah, the main thing will be like the nighttime darkness that'll still be there for three minutes regardless and the temperature, yeah. The temperature won't sink quite as much if it's cloudy clouds tend to act as kind of a blanket they take some of the earth's radiation that is being sent up into the atmosphere clouds will tend to send that back down to the earth so if it's cloudy the temperature change might not be very drastic you'll still see the darkness of night for at least three minutes. S-C-I, and then S-C-I starters S-C-E-R, S-T-A-R, T-E-R S-C-I, I think those are some of those, yeah, some of those citizen science projects are listed on the Eclipse page that we have so here's what our Eclipse page currently looks like And so, if you go to weather.gov slash BTV slash Eclipse 2024, you'll see all of these different things. And so, like we were just chatting about, you can look at some of the different citizen science opportunities that are offered. There's the globe eclipse one that was just mentioned. You can also reveal the true shape of the sun. And for any kids' activities, there are those through the public broadcast system that they've provided as well. The show we have. That's the line check that you used. Yeah, we can add it on the web. We can add it on the eclipse page here. Yeah, I think that'd be a great suggestion. We'll do that. So, I'll show you around a little bit more on the eclipse page here. So, as you can see, we have different icons here across the region. And if you click any individual icon, it'll tell you how the expected obscuration from the moon. So, of course, being in the path of totality, we have 100% for the Burlington area. And what you can do as well, you can observe the seven-day summary. You can observe it on an hourly basis. And this, I think, should pull up the, let's see what this does. I have not quite, there we go. Okay, so this is nice. So, this way you don't have to deal with maybe the archaic design of our line graph. You can just come here and see what the expected chances for thunder and everything is. And clouds, of course, sky cover. So, it looks like this will be updated on a daily basis. So, this is the forecast for today. And so, as we get closer to eclipse time, there'll be more. And you can scroll all the way to the right to view all of this stuff. It's gonna be a little bit longer before April 8th makes it in there. We only have to the end of March. That's what it looks like. And there's also NASA specific eclipse information that's also listed there. Yeah. Just a little question. My second line of defense is, if we got clouds here, is hopefully to go someplace, maybe the NASA site, where one can see the whole thing, you know, as it happened in totality, maybe in Texas or somewhere else. Do you have, are you folks planning an option like that? So, what are the rules of those? I'm sure they'll be out there. I'm not sure how much we can really push that forward since we're mostly local to this area. I'm sure there would be resources out there. I don't know where they would be. I'm sure they may even be on this web page that has some of those virtual viewing options. Let's see. We're not doing the big festivals that they're doing down on the waterfront. But we are having sort of a more low-key event here on our lawn. If it is cloudy, and we probably will do it even if it's not cloudy, we did this when we had the partial eclipse last time, is we'll stream it in our main reading room. So there is just something very exciting about being in a group of people watching the eclipse. And whether it's outside or inside, I think the, you know, it's just, it's a nice communal event to be able to take part in. So we will be doing that here. I think the program will run from 2 o'clock to 4.30. What's the word eclipse mean? Where does it come from, do you know? I have not looked at the, I think it's Latin, the interesting. Yeah, I'm not sure of what the root meaning is. It's been on my to-do list to look at, but also give us a move I don't know if maybe one of the posters may describe it. All right, so the last thing I have here to show is just to remember, there's also, if you go to the solar eclipse across America, that's one of the web links that you can find on the web page. So you can look at this resource to how to remind yourself on how you can view the eclipse safely. And as I noted earlier, this will have things to look out for as far as safe eclipse glasses and has a list of safety tips from partners and endorsers as well. So if you can't find anything, try looking through the eclipse safety page and you might be able to find resources for finding eclipse glasses, perhaps through that mean, through those means if anything else fails. And our other weather service areas that will be affected by the eclipse also will be having information provided about the eclipse and there is the NASA page. So it's possible that I would look to this page as far as finding the potential for any live stream. Well thank you very much. Yes, thanks so much. I appreciate everyone's attendance and their great questions and the great participation. I've learned some new things about the eclipse myself as well here today. So I hope everyone's excited. They've put out several books here and several posters for additional reading as well. And if ever you have any need, the weather service we have our lines open. So you can always call us on the phone as well. Send us messages on things like social media. We're usually pretty quick to respond and we're all hoping you're looking forward to the eclipse.