On Wednesday there is gonig to be a total solar eclipse in some areas of Australia and Africa.

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On Wednesday, 2002 December 04, a total eclipse of the Sun will be visible from within a narrow corridor which traverses the Southern Hemisphere. The path of the Moon's umbral shadow begins in the South Atlantic and crosses southern Africa. After traversing the southern Indian Ocean, the path sweeps through southern Australia where the eclipse ends at sunset. A partial eclipse will be seen within the much broader path of the Moon's penumbral shadow, which includes most of Africa (excluding the north), parts of Indonesia, Australia and eastern Antarctica.

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actually, this page is a little better ... it shows the time (it isn't adjusted for daylight saving) of the eclipse partial and total for the major cities in Australia.

I think this is thrilling! I hope you can get a good view! Can you? I don't suppose cloudless skies will be a problem is the dust doesn't kick up.

We're in the 90% area which is good and the weather report is "Patchy rain developing. Hot to very hot with freshening northerly winds ahead of a milder southwesterly change extending from the west. Areas of raised dust near
the change".
Ah geez ... I'll take the rain and the eclipse, they can keep the heat and the dust!

Anyone going to be in a good area for the eclipse?

I'm rooting for the rain! Watch the eclipse on TV!

Being in Sydney we will only have 60% coverage, but I will still be watching.

I still remember a full eclipse I saw years ago, it was stunning, eerie and awesome! Something you never forget.

Lucky you Copago, you get 90%, wow.

We had one a few years ago, really spooky with it going quite cool as the sun went, the birds went quiet too. Amazing experience but I too will be rooting for the rain for you Jillian, scads and scads of it.

The word of the day is 'bizarre'!

Wow. The eclipse was really ... well .... bizarre There were no clouds but it was windy so pretty dusty which just made the sun's light look more ... bizarre. Because it was in the evening it didn't seem that strange when things went dark because it wasn't far away from dusk anyway but what was .... bizarre ... was seeing it light up again, only just as the sun was nearly set anyway. Even though we were only in a 90% area the dust made sure that we couldn't see any of the sun for a few minutes until it came out again stronger and it wasn't totally dark but a sort of ... bizarre ... muted kind of light with a kind of ... bizarre ... orange glow. You can see why in ancient times that all sorts of portents of doom were though to happen due to eclipses.

To quote a really bad song from a few years back ...

how bizarre, how bizarre!

I was difficult to see anything from here. We are suffering from the Johnny Cash problem.. ie, a Ring of Fire.

See this story. The suburbs listed are mostly outer suburbs, but I can see smoke coming from three different directions.

I caught a bit of LIVE coverage as I was going to sleep! How beautiful and eery! I'm glad you witnessed it, copago! Too bad you didn't get the rain you so desperately need, though. But I'm thinking it was a fairly good trade off. You do seem to have been quite impessed!

The fires sound very scary, ozzzzzz. I wish the world would get "right" again, weather wise. It's December 4 for me here in the north of Canada, and we've yet to see a flake of snow. Yet other spots that don't usually get a LOT of snow have been having huge dumps of the stuff.

Nature can be beautiful, and nature can be cruel. But the power of nature is indisputable!