Solar eclipse in Northeast Ohio: Cleveland experiences totality

So as we look up now,

there is just a small sliver of the sun that is

still visible and we will go through a small process here.

Seconds before totality,

we'll get some little flashes of light on the outer edge of the uh the moon

and those will be Bailey's beads. Wow. There it is. Look at this. It's almost there.

It's almost there. I hear the crowd behind us cheering it on.

Wow.

So if you, if you, if you can look out a window, look at the color of the air around you.

Everything is getting very flat gray.

We are just seconds away from those Bailey's beach showing up.

Then we will have what's known as the diamond ring,

the last little glimpse of sun before totality.

And when totality happens,

you take your glasses off and hopefully through these serious clouds,

we will be able to see

the corona of the sun, which this is the only time you get to see the corona of the sun

like you.

I vaguely remember as a kid taking this and I certainly

did not have an expert from NASA and an expert meteorologist,

as I said, eclipse Guru standing next to me, walking me through it.

Kind of tell me right now, what are we seeing?

Well,

there's just this little tiny orange sliver. That's all there is.

And you can see it's this little tiny orange sliver.

But, but Betsy's absolutely right.

If you take the glasses off, don't look at the sun,

but look around. The color is incredible.

So remember the sun is 400 times larger in diameter than the diameter of the moon.

The moon is 400 times closer to earth. It is geometric perfection.

And we are right in this path. We have not been in the path of totality since 1806.

We won't be again until what? 2424

somewhere in Ohio in 2099. So only 75 more years.

But for Cleveland, it's 420 years. 2444. It's just absolutely amazing.

It

is

312. This is the most painful part of the whole process.

Uh This wait and everybody's been waiting

313. So we are getting a totality just southwest of Cleveland.

Totality has begun in Mansfield.

We are seconds away from it here in downtown Cleveland.

Here we go. There's a crowd

coming

down

and it is perceptibly,

the temperature is dropping.

Just wait,

it gets better.

Don't take your glasses off.

Not

yet. Not

yet.

There it is.

We

go.

Oh man.

And

there's Bailey's beads,

got it.

We're in totality.

Yes.

Ok. We also have Venus.

Venus is visible right now

off to the bottom, right

here on earth. The street lights have come on

the,

on

the,

you

can

see

the edge of the shadow behind us and there is so much,

it's so much brighter to the north.

Look at that. I did not see this when I was a kid. I do not remember the.

So this is just so stunning. So we can't see the planet Venus.

Jupiter is up here to the upper left of the moon.

And if we were going to get to see that diablo comet that Russ told us about earlier

in the week, last week, it would be to the right of Jupiter.

I don't see it because of the serious clouds right now.

I am also seeing we're getting some Bailey's beads on the ends,

which is kind of interesting.

So we are at a solar maximum. The sun runs on an 11 year solar cycle maximum and minimum

in 2017 when I was in Jefferson City, we did not have the solar maximum,

but we still had this amazing view

this year, we're in a solar maximum.

So we are getting to see so much more

energy coming out and we may actually that bottom,

you see that little glimmer

and that very well could be a

mass ejection,

coronal mass ejection or some kind of a solar sprite that is coming out

the sun right now. And we get to see it.

We've got planes flying above the atmosphere

or above the clouds and everything else.

We'll have people who may be able to tell us, I don't know that for sure,

but I will have people who may be able to

tell us. Yes, we are, what's going on up there and what we're seeing. Right.

It is, it is absolutely spectacular.

And yes, uh, you can see now on the western horizon,

where are you starting to see the light coming?

But it's getting darker to the east, but it's getting darker to the east.

So we are right under, you can see an entire ring of brighter skies,

the yellow all the way around us.

And that only happens when you are right here

in the path.

Let me ask my two experts here, how long are we going to be in this stage right here?

Three minutes and 50.

So we are,

we are counting down and this is almost double the

amount of time that I had in Jefferson City.

So it is absolutely incredible. Now, we turned out our ambient lights

and now we can see a little bit better, some of that corona of the sun and of course,

the serious clouds are playing with things a little bit, but I mean, we get to see it.

Oh man. Do we get to see it? That is so

that's incredible.

It really is incredible. You know, it's interesting.

I was watching the network coverage of this, I guess in Indianapolis,

when this happened.

And the correspondent said

it seems like an eternity and it does at this point,

we thought this would be very quick.

But is this, this is a nice stretch here.

It has been and we only have another minute or two left, but uh

it's already getting brighter

off

to the

west.

But

uh

but we still get to see Venus there and, and,

and Jupiter is actually shining a little bit brighter now.

So,

man,

this is 3 1650

we are counting down.

It's starting to get brighter and brighter on our western horizon.

So again, you can see Venus to the lower right, Jupiter up here to the upper left

and I can't believe Jimmy that we get to see that,

that bright spots on the southern or at least the bottom of

the

and that, and it, and it stayed there the whole time. So it's,

that's, that's gonna be something interesting to see what exactly that that is.

There's a

lot of

people watching this.

I was

gonna say

folks at home, listen, go in your backyard if it's safe.

Thanks for watching this on TV. But go in your backyard

and take a look at this.

Once in a lifetime of here we go in Northeast Ohio and here we go,

we're coming out of it.

Have your glasses on.

Here we go. Diamond ring

and here come our Bailey's Beads.

That was the fastest three minutes and 50 seconds of my life.

But that

is the end of totality in Cleveland. Now, the lights will start to come back on.

Meaning the sun, the sun will begin shining again.

The city lights are going to be

it.

It's amazing how quickly it got dark when we hit

totality and how amazing how quickly it got light again.

Now that we're coming out of,

if you look at something white and you're seeing odd like lines or something moving,

you're actually seeing the atmosphere.