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Not being blog-savvy, can I ask a question? How do you know that we didn't see your last report? Do you have a visitor counter for each blog entry? Can you elucidate?
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dg writes: I meant that you didn't see the eclipse (it being over by 5:30am), not that you didn't read the report.

PS Warwick is totally clouded over (8:48am) so no chance of a glimpse of the eclipse here, the best I can expect is a slight dimming of the light levels. Ho hum.

verity74 | 03.10.05 - 9:54 a.m. | #

Forgot all about this this morning, but it's pretty cloudy in Edinburgh anyway so I don't imagine I would have seen anything anyway. For the washout one in Cornwall you mention in that old post, I was actually in the very south of Belgium which was in the path of totality. Like Cornwall it was horribly clouded over, and then as if by magic the clouds parted just enough and just at the right moment to see it in all its glory. A weird and fabulous experience and one I would love to repeat one day.

Alan | Homepage | 03.10.05 - 10:43 a.m. | #

I saw the 2001 one in Zambia and the 1999 one in the South West.

East London remains cloudy so not much chance of seeing the sun anytime soon.

Essexgirl | 03.10.05 - 10:45 a.m. | #

cloudy in oxford, but it's gone spookily dark.....

dan | 03.10.05 - 10:57 a.m. | #

10.13am In full view (well behind a little bit of cloud) here in Greenwich. Magical

Christian | 03.10.05 - 11:16 a.m. | #

It's cloudy , but I can see the break in the blanket of clouds, somewhere close to central/ east London, but can't see it from Chingford.

Looks like it'll be visible in Bow!

Shellers | Homepage | 03.10.05 - 11:40 a.m. | #

Damn. There may have been some sunshine at dawn, but skies in central London were fully overcast by the time the eclipse began. At 10am there was just a faint hint that the Sun might be behind one particular bit of thick swirling cloud, but no sense of form or shape. South London looked to be doing better, with sunlight streaming down through a break in the clouds, but in central London there was bugger all. Even though half the Sun was missing, it was impossible to distinguish this extra-special event from a normal grey day in the capital. Shades of 1999, alas. Time to put my special filtered glasses away until next March…

diamond geezer | Homepage | 03.10.05 - 11:56 a.m. | #

Bah! Read this post a half hour too late - didn't know it was happening. Me and co-worker are now convincing ourselves it has got noticeably brighter than it was an hour ago!

Huw | Homepage | 03.10.05 - 12:19 p.m. | #

The clouds cleared just before 11 here in Leyton to catch the end of it... a view of a little bite taken out of the bottom the sun. Excellent to see... an old Digicam with an electronic viewfinder served well to view the eclipse even if the pictures themselves are still burnt out.

Thanks for the reminders dg

NiC | Homepage | 03.10.05 - 12:19 p.m. | #

You're planning a nice holiday to China or the Arctic in 2008?

Essexgirl | 03.10.05 - 12:20 p.m. | #

Typical – at ten past eleven the sun finally emerged from behind the clouds and blazed over central London, just in time to be able to see the tiniest weeniest sliver of the moon’s shadow blocking out the lower edge of the solar disc. So I saw the last couple of minutes of the eclipse, but I saw virtually nothing.

diamond geezer | Homepage | 03.10.05 - 12:37 p.m. | #

I saw it - Peckham had a great view - it was visible through the thin clouds most easily - very exciting. When the cloud completely evaporated (by 11.00) it was far too bright to look at (didn't have a piece of smoked glass y'see).

harriet | Homepage | 03.10.05 - 1:18 p.m. | #

Clouded over. Saw bugger all. 1999 all over again. Ho hum...

Ant | Homepage | 03.10.05 - 1:44 p.m. | #

harriet! Fancy going out without a piece of smoked glass... shame on you young lady

NiC | Homepage | 03.10.05 - 2:06 p.m. | #

No view at all from Farringdon. So cloudy that you really couldn't tell anything was happening at all.

Had a good view of the 1999 eclipse in Plymouth (which was great, since it was my birthday).

Katherine | 03.10.05 - 2:56 p.m. | #

I start work at 8:30, and don't leave my little cave of an office until 12:30, so I missed the entire thing. And I was looking forward to it aswell.

Laura-Ann | Homepage | 03.10.05 - 3:09 p.m. | #

I had to head out to our datacentre near Harlesden. I don't think I've ever seen the sun in Harlesden - it's too afraid to come out.

Chz | Homepage | 03.10.05 - 3:14 p.m. | #

Missed it completely, too cloudy, all we noticed was a slight change in light and a drop in temperature. Next time maybe.

stroppycow | Homepage | 03.10.05 - 7:01 p.m. | #

Thanks dg for clearing up my confusion! It got really cold in Warwick, but I didn't notice a change in the light as it was pretty lousy weather by 9.30.

My new niece was born at 9.30 this morning - is that a good tiding, being born when there's a solar eclipse?

verity74 | 03.10.05 - 9:28 p.m. | #

I know, really bad planning. Don't know what I was thinking!

harriet | Homepage | 04.10.05 - 1:27 p.m. | #











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