2024 Solar Eclipse In NorCal: What You Need To Know For Monday
From the San Francisco Bay Area to Sacramento to Lake Tahoe — here's when the eclipse will appear overhead. The 2024 total solar eclipse will occur in Northern California, with about 35 percent totality as the moon slips between the sun and Earth. Only the sun's spiky corona will be visible in the path of totality, extending from Texas to Maine in the United States. This will be the first time Americans have seen this phenomenon in two decades.
Published : 4 weeks ago by Bea Karnes in Science
NORTHERN CALIFORNIA— Excitement is building in Northern California for Monday’s 2024 total solar eclipse , a celestial phenomenon that Americans won’t see again for two decades.
Only our yellow star’s spiky corona will be visible in the 15 states in the path of totality, which extends from Texas to Maine in the United States. We’ll see a less dramatic blockage of the sun in Northern California with about 35 percent totality as the moon slips between the sun and Earth.
Below is your complete guide to viewing the sun’s disappearing act in Northern California and beyond: