{"id":12045,"date":"2017-08-09T09:59:53","date_gmt":"2017-08-09T13:59:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=12045"},"modified":"2017-08-09T10:00:12","modified_gmt":"2017-08-09T14:00:12","slug":"what-will-the-eclipse-be-like-if-there-are-clouds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2017\/08\/what-will-the-eclipse-be-like-if-there-are-clouds\/","title":{"rendered":"What will the eclipse be like if there are clouds?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This has been a pretty wet summer so far, and that means we probably have a better than usual chance of having some clouds for the eclipse on August 21. Even if the sky is completely cloud-covered, we will still experience effects from the eclipse, in particular the darkness that comes when most of the sun&#8217;s disk is blocked out and the concurrent fall in temperature. \u00a0But even if there are some clouds, there may be breaks that you can use to view the sun, and cloudiness has also been known to change because of the falling temperatures. \u00a0You can read more in this <em>Forbes.com<\/em> article by Dr. Marshall Shepherd of UGA <a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/marshallshepherd\/2017\/08\/09\/weather-outlook-suggests-clouds-for-some-during-the-eclipse-if-so-what-will-you-experience\/#67fbacb6160e\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_11797\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11797\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2017\/07\/eclipse_map_-w_dots-v3_1_1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11797\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2017\/07\/eclipse_map_-w_dots-v3_1_1-300x167.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"167\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2017\/07\/eclipse_map_-w_dots-v3_1_1-300x167.png 300w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2017\/07\/eclipse_map_-w_dots-v3_1_1-768x427.png 768w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2017\/07\/eclipse_map_-w_dots-v3_1_1.png 1024w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2017\/07\/eclipse_map_-w_dots-v3_1_1-248x138.png 248w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-11797\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The darker the dot, the greater the chance for cloudiness at the hour of peak viewing during the total solar eclipse on August 21, 2017. Dots represent automated weather stations that reported the cloudiness data and show the 10-year cloudiness average for August 21, 2001\u20132010. Map developed by CICS-NC in cooperation with NOAA NCEI, Deborah Riddle.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This has been a pretty wet summer so far, and that means we probably have a better than usual chance of having some clouds for the eclipse on August 21. Even if the sky is completely cloud-covered, we will still experience effects from the eclipse, in particular the darkness that comes when most of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":11797,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12045","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-climate-and-ag-in-the-news","category-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12045","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/58"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12045"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12045\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12047,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12045\/revisions\/12047"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11797"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}