Book your hotel in Cleveland for April 2024. The vast majority of us will have to travel to an eclipse path if we want to see a total eclipse in our lifetimes. Any given location will see a total solar eclipse only once in more than 300 years, on average. If an eclipse happens to come to your town, you’re lucky.
The next total solar eclipse to visit the US will be in 2024. Total solar eclipses are a big deal not because of how infrequent they are - there’s a total solar eclipse every 18 months on average - but because of how little of the Earth’s surface falls in the path of any given eclipse shadow. The shadow of the moon will cross the country, touching land in Oregon and leaving from South Carolina, providing an opportunity for what may be an unprecedented number of people to witness this extraordinary natural phenomenon. Follow him on Facebook and Twitter.On August 21, the continental United States will see its first total solar eclipse in 38 years. The August 2017 eclipse had 9.3-million people living in its path.Īfter the April 2024 eclipse, the next total solar eclipse in North America won't be until 2045.īrian Donegan is a meteorologist at. There are 29.9-million people that live in the April 2024 eclipse path, Dr. We hope you'll check back to in about seven years for those details. (MORE: Yes, April is Actually the Snowiest Month in These Places)Īgain, a specific forecast for rain or snow cannot be accurately made until a few days prior to the eclipse. Any individual low-pressure system could spread thick clouds and rain (or snow) across a region, fading away all hopes of seeing this phenomenal sight. The only region in that list which will see totality is the lower Mississippi Valley in portions of Arkansas and southeast Missouri.Įven if April isn't the wettest month, on average, in a certain location, this doesn't mean rain won't block your view of the total solar eclipse in seven years.
April showers do bring May flowers, after all. Brian Brettschneider/WRCC)Īpril is the wettest month for parts of the Southeast, lower Mississippi Valley, central Great Basin and southeast New Jersey. This map shows the wettest month of the year. This includes Farmington, Missouri, and Cape Girardeau, Missouri. 21 will also be in the path of totality for the April 8, 2024, total solar eclipse. Louis in southeast Missouri that experienced totality on Aug. Interestingly, a few locations south of St. (MORE: How the Solar Eclipse Changed the Weather) This is a much different path than August's eclipse, which started in the Pacific Northwest, cut across the nation's heartland and ended in the Southeast. The maximum eclipse will be observed near the cities of Nazas, Mexico, and Torreón, Mexico, where totality will last four minutes and 28 seconds. EDT along the entire path of the eclipse. 21, the good news is that the next total solar eclipse will pass through North America less than seven years from now.Īpril 8, 2024, is when the next total solar eclipse will slice through the continent, beginning in Mexico, entering the United States in Texas, cutting a diagonal across the Lower 48 to Maine and finishing in Canada's maritime provinces. If you were unable to get in the path of the Great American Solar Eclipse on Aug.
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