Changed Into Night
With all this hype today, I did my research and found out where I plan to be on 12 August, 2026, at 8:30 PM. I will have to be somewhere to the north or east of Santiago; we're too far to the southwest here. That is the day a total eclipse is forecast for this area. It will swoop down from Greenland, Iceland and beyond, to Spain, where it crosses from the northwest, over the Balearic Islands, to die with the sunset just before reaching the southern edge of Sardinia. The last time we had an eclipse of the sun was the partial eclipse in March, 2015. The day became a little fuzzy, the sky not so blue, the light weak, the air a little cooler. What must it be like to have the sunlight totally blotted out and day turn into instant night? An article in The New York Times today recommends seeing it with a crowd of people because the feelings are so overwhelming. Suddenly, it is total night, and the temperatures drop, and there is not light except far on the horizon. It is frighte...