The Great American Eclipse Weather Phenomena
Abstract
For the first time in nearly 40 years, a total solar eclipse passed over the continental United States on August 21, 2017. Using observations gathered while on-site in Long Creek, Oregon, and from over seven hundred other sites within the path on totality from across the United States, it was determined that the total solar eclipse caused a decrease in temperature of 5.8 °F 10.2 minutes after totality ended. These observations also showed that the wind speed decreased by 1.6 mph 25.1 minutes after totality ended, and that if a change in wind direction occurred, it shifted 7.4 minutes before totality began.
- Publication:
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American Astronomical Society Meeting Abstracts #233
- Pub Date:
- January 2019
- Bibcode:
- 2019AAS...23335805P