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In 2024, people watching the eclipse from Eagle Pass, Texas, located along the U.S.-Mexico border, will experience 4 minutes and 26 seconds of totality. The maximum totality in 2017 was 2 minutes and 41 seconds in Curulean, Kentucky. You May Also Like: 2022 Guide To Meteor Showers, Supermoons, Lunar Eclipse The 2024 Eclipse May, Ahem, Outshine 2017Īt 120 miles wide as totality starts and 100 miles as it departs, the 2024 eclipse will be almost twice as wide as the 2017 eclipse, which was between 60 and 70 miles wide, according to Forbes. Louis, Chicago, Cincinnati, Detroit and Pittsburgh are just a short drive away from the path of totality, AccuWeather points out. To show how frenzied the run-up was, 1970s Welsh pop star Bonnie Tyler reprised her “ Total Eclipse of the Sun” at the exact the moment the sun fell under the moon’s shadow on a cruise ship in the Caribbean.Īlso, major cities such as San Antonio, Texas, St. The upcoming event is dubbed the Great North American Eclipse, a riff off the 2017 Great American Eclipse in which Americans from one coast to the other basked in the subdued sunlight with picnics, watch parties and even solar eclipse weddings.

Areas farther away from the path of totality will see a less-dramatic blockage of the sun. That’s portions of Texas, Oklahoma, Maine, Missouri, Kentucky, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Pennsylvania, New York, Vermont, New Hampshire and Maine.Ī total solar eclipse takes place when the moon passes between the sun and Earth, completely blocking the face of the sun.

So mark this date - Monday, Apon your calendar, especially if you’re among about 32 million people Forbes estimates live in the path of 100 percent totality. ACROSS AMERICA - It won’t happen for another couple of years, but it’s not too soon to plan for the 2024 total solar eclipse that will darken the sun for a few minutes in more than a dozen states exactly one year from Friday.