- sunset pink on every horizon - vanilla sky above that - still getting darker looking up - hey Venus! - OMG FIRE HOLE IN THE SKY!!!

I'm 65 years old, so figuring I probably won't have another opportunity to view a total eclipse, I traveled with my two sons and my daughter-in-law from western Maryland to a small town just south of Cleveland. We sat in the bleachers of the town's high school baseball field (along with most of the people from town) and it was one of the most memorable experiences of my life. And by the way, temperature dropped, the wind did pick up, and yes, the crickets chirped! Love your channels!

@bentucker2301

3 ай бұрын

heart warming story sir

@davidroddini1512

3 ай бұрын

I live in a medium sized town just under 40 miles southeast of Cleveland. Glad to have had you and your family in our region for this rare opportunity!

@JMD501

3 ай бұрын

My dad is 73 and we went to Cleveland from Pittsburgh. It really is a once in a lifetime moment.

@41-Haiku

3 ай бұрын

I love how convergent this event was. I came from Arizona to a small town south of Cleveland (Lodi), and unbeknownst to me, my brother came from Pittsburgh to Mansfield, a few miles away!

@1dgram

2 ай бұрын

Travel to Spain in August 2026

I saw it from the middle of nowhere Indiana with clear skies in the path of totality for 4 minutes and 3 seconds. It was magnificent!!! I saw the one in 2017 so I knew what to expect and I was *counting down the days,* let me tell you, for 7 YEARS. I got stuck in traffic for an hour going there and 3 hours coming back but I would do it again RIGHT NOW. The funny thing is, if you haven't seen a total solar eclipse then you just cannot possibly understand how magnificent it is and I can't explain it. I am still very much on an eclipse high. Honestly a big part of the feelings I had was _relief._ Relief that I got the day off, relief that I made it in time and that the skies were clear. I looked into the eye of the universe and we were one. It all worked out. *Magnificent!*

4:02 -- I just wanted to let you know that this moment of camera fiddling followed by HOLY SH*T OH MY GOD was one of the most wonderful moments I've seen on your channel.

My happiest memory was getting to introduce my parents to the entire concept of eclipses. They are both very "salt o' the earth" folks from rural southern 'Merica who have never given a second thought to what's going on in the sky except how and when it affects their trucking travel safety. In fact, my mom's education and life's journey has been so far removed from astronomy that she didn't really even understand what those lights and glowing orbs above her head are, so it was the greatest joy to gently guide her/them through the process, and then watch their brains 'splode when the moment arrived. We talked about it for two days afterward, and now they have the same thought you do; "this can NOT be the last one we see!". Glorious.

@FloatingSpark

3 ай бұрын

Dude you comment just brought me to tears. That is so incredibly special, to have been able to teach your parents about the nature of the cosmos and then share such a powerful experience with them, incredible ❤

@yanceynitzsche5115

3 ай бұрын

@@FloatingSpark Appreciate that! Our family has been a little fractured in the past, so that genuine bonding moment was even more profound than the event itself. A memory to cherish, for sure. :-)

I saw an interview with a scientist who said "Watch your first eclipse. Photograph your second," because people are often so focused on their cameras and fiddling with settings they miss the whole thing. It definitely dropped about 20 degrees here. We already had a breeze. While the birds stopped chirping all the dog did was take a nap. Oh, and my wife was so into the moment that she felt faint and leaned on me. It was a nice moment of closeness. Our daughter is autistic (high functioning) so it was a very anxious time for her leading up to it, as autistic people can catastrophize things. So, to her, the things most people laugh about were worries, but once it happened she was so captured by it all that anxiety went away and was replaced by awe and excitement and she was looking up when the next one as soon as we got back inside. Thanks for sharing, Joe!

@joescott-tmi

3 ай бұрын

That’s great advice actually.

Way back in the 70’s I got to see a total and my friend and I were on a hill so we could watch the shadow rushing toward us and then the light returning. The colour was what surprised me the most. It was one of the coolest things I’ve ever got to see.

I cried. It was amazing and weirdly profound.

@Nefville

3 ай бұрын

I did too. I was hyperventilating and shaking with excitement. I've tried to explain it to people who didn't see it and uh..... its impossible 😂

@tommyegirl

3 ай бұрын

Same! It just made me feel so small and insignificant in the best way.

Hey, Joe. squinty face, slack jawed old Canadian guy here, long time follower, first time commenting. I've been an eclipse D-bag since I saw a total eclipse in southern Saskatchewan in 1979, and I will continue to be one going forward. I've seen a couple partials since then, pretty damn cool, but stlll .. well, you know. Welcome to the club.

It's no shame being "that guy" after seeing a total eclipse. It is that cool. It is that much different from a near total. I saw it this time in Toledo OH. It was amazing, and very much worth making the few hour drive to where it was in totality. I took my elderly parents with me and they loved it too.

My first total eclipse. I saw a partial on a cruise in '95 and the partial in '17. My mom, who's 89, my brother and I drove to a small park in the middle of nowhere PA to watch it. There were five or six families with kids there. The reaction of the kids was what made it for me. It thought about getting out my dslr camera, but in the end, I kept hearing people say they wish they'd watched it with no distractions. I'm glad I did. I took one quick, overexposed shot with my phone, but that was it. I'll be 82 the next one rolls around, and yeah, I was one of those ones who wants to see another one before then.

I saw it standing on the front lawn at work (yay for being on the totality path & not having to travel anywhere) with about 20-30 other people. Afterward I heard someone say "Well, I guess that's how religions start". I guess the temperature thing will depend on the local weather. I'm in Canada in spring so there are pretty big temperature swings daily from day to night. I was a big noticeable temperature swing (from about 17-18C when it started, to I think around 8C), as well as a picking up of the wind with the air pressure differences cause by that local temperature shift. It was pretty wild, all told.

@elizabethsullivan7176

3 ай бұрын

I'm in London, Ontario and we got 99.2% of the eclipse, so it didn't get totally dark, but it did get quite windy and chilly. For me it was still awesome and amazing, though. I've been a stargazer since the Voyager sent back the pictures of Jupiter and Saturn when I was a kid.

Fortunate enough to see the 2017 eclipse and it's definitely something that every human should experience. Altho it can be vividly described, unless you've actually been thru it you'll never truly understand.

I saw a total eclipse in Spain in... 2000 and... I want to say 5. And for the first time I understood the primeval mythologies and terror associated with them. It was the lack of heat that really struck me.

@ryans4877

3 ай бұрын

I absolutely had the same thought. Even knowing what was happening there was still a part of my lizard brain that was in panic mode

We are all the same type of person here. Inquisitive and thoughtful.

"I immediately became one of those people!" Same here, my dude

The only thing I can think of that might come close to the shared-experience thing is seeing a really good rainbow. They are nowhere near as rare as a total solar eclipse, but they also can make complete strangers that wouldn't even make eye contact under normal circumstances share uncynical joy in a parking lot or something. I was in the Philadelphia area and the peak for us got clouded over, but I've seen multiple partials. At this point, I can easily admit that I should have traveled to see it although I can't help thinking that if I had gone to Indianapolis, the whole city would have clouded over. There's an upcoming one in Australia that looks fantastic, though.

I saw both this one and the one in 2017. Can confirm the difference between 99.5% and 100% is gigantic. Also, the amazing thing is that no camera ever captures this the way the human eye does. Even the very best attempts to see the corona fail to reproduce it. I can also confirm that each eclipse is unique, the one in 2017 appeared much more like "spikes" of light coming off the sun/moon, while this one was much more curved, and everyone where I was noticed a red spot on the bottom of the moon(probably one of the solar prominances/Flares

@leoso6861

3 ай бұрын

I seen both as well i noticed the same things where abouts did you see it

@flyingeagle3898

3 ай бұрын

@@leoso6861 I saw the 2017 one in rural Tennessee. This 2024 one I saw in Indiana

@MrT------5743

3 ай бұрын

You said you can confirm the difference between 99.5 and 100%? How? Did you only see a 99.5% eclipse AND one at 100%?

@flyingeagle3898

3 ай бұрын

@@MrT------5743 you see a 99.5% eclipse as it progresses to 100%, and again right after the 100% eclipse passes overhead its automatic part of the process in the line of totality. totality lasts a few minutes, and the partial eclipse at all other percentages occurs in the hours immediately before and after. and YEsthe difference between a bare sliver of the sun disk being visible and none of it being visible is immense.

@_donttouchme

3 ай бұрын

@@MrT------5743 Not sure if this is serious, but I'll bite. You literally see a 99.5% eclipse before and after the total eclipse. It's too bright to look at and looks like a tiny sliver of sun through glasses. The most notable thing is the weird silvery light. It's really neat but nowhere comparable to the darkness and drama of totality.

Drove to the Armstrong Space Museum in Wapakoneta, Ohio with my 2 sons. Half hour before totality, temperature dropped and a breeze picked up, (hot and humid before that), and....yeah. The shared experience with the thousands of people around us camping out on the lawn surrounding the museum....we'll never forget. Glad that you got to experience it! ❤❤❤ Addendum: Afterwards, the thought that occurred to me, in terms of putting this experience into words, was what astronauts describe as "the Overview Effect" - when you realize how small you are in the whole universe and how rare and precious the Earth is.

@reesemccarthy505

3 ай бұрын

+1 to being at the Armstrong Space Museum in Wapakoneta, Ohio

Up here in Missouri it got much cooler when the eclipse hit totality. My dogs, cats, chickens, guineas, pigs, and goats didn't seem to notice the eclipse. Chickens just froze in place as they do in the dark. Dogs napped. Goats just grazed.

@yanceynitzsche5115

3 ай бұрын

Same. Our homestead being on the side of a hill and on the edge of a large forest, the atmospheric shift was very noticeable. Swirling eddies of wind, temp. fluctuations, rustling leaves, and oh my, did the birds and bugs have things to say...

@ronheil6558

2 ай бұрын

I traveled to Missouri to see it, and I noticed the same thing. I actually started taking screenshots of my local weather app in the 20 minutes or so before it, and saw the temperature drop a degree every few minutes or so.

I got so emotional. I bought a pair of glasses and got to see a partial eclipse with my mom and my brothers, we shared the pair of glasses and I was just so glad i bought them.

I saw the one in 2017 in Nashville partially obscured by clouds, but it was incredible. I watched this one from a friends farm in Ohio, and I am still coming down from the high. It was amazing, spectacular, awe inspiring, blah, blah, blah. Started planning to see another while it was still happening. But, for me, the best part was being at an eclipse party in rural Ohio, bunch of farmers, not the worlds most effusive bunch, but for the next hour, about ever 30 seconds or so you would hear something very close to, "I mean, I guess I knew it would be interesting, but I just had no idea." Brought a lot of people together in very unexpected ways.

So I live in the path of totality of this year, me and my little cousin went down to the park by my house (got lost a bit but made it there..), we sat at the park and just drew and sketched while we waited for the eclipse to pass us, it was pretty cool when it did. It got all dark (a bit less dark than I thought) and stuff, windy and the temperature went down. I heard the crickets too!! There was cheering and stuff and it was really cool to just experience that. One thing that was kinda funny was as we were walking to the park we kept looking at the eclipse through our glasses, we were kinda “racing” to reach the park on time for totality even though it wouldn’t happen for awhile.

We’re in central Texas and I had the same response. I didn’t expect to be as excited as I was. I thought it would be like any of the partial eclipses we‘ve seen. But it was SO cool.

Never look directly at a total solar eclipse. It will burn a hole in your wallet. 🤣

@MrT------5743

3 ай бұрын

Not unless you are dumb enough to pay to see it.

Hey, Joe, long time watcher first time? I figured I'd drop a comment in live in Milwaukee and I took my kids and a good friend of mind down to Indianapolis Indiana to watch The First Time. I have ever seen a total eclipse. The drive there was about 5 hours due to traffic. The ride home was about 10 hours due to trafvicky, but I think I do it all over again. You said in this video. It's all inspiring and it's one of the few times somebody's ever used that word in the correct way. Keep doing what you're doing buddy

@joescott-tmi

3 ай бұрын

That's a lovely first time comment. :)

Totally agree with you. This was my first total eclipse, and it was an enormous step up from partial eclipses I have seen. I now understand why people would want to chase them. We saw it in northern Vermont, and it definitely got colder and a breeze picked up. It was the fastest 3 minutes of my life, and when the sun returned all I could think was "Again! Do it again!" It was amazing how small a sliver of sun had to come back before it looked like full daylight again. I feel sorry for that person who said they didn't want to follow the media hype, and I hope they are young enough to have another opportunity to witness this. I'm in my sixties and this has been my first chance to see one. Very glad I got the chance.

Thank you for sharing your thoughts. It's great to hear them. Now I can't wait 'till the next total eclips comes to Europe.

I was planning on watching Tim's stream, but the weather didn't cooperate. I'm glad you had your stream, I enjoyed it, especially since I couldn't get back home to watch this in person. Screw the peanut gallery, you do you sir!

Hey Joe! I live in Austin tx & when you were saying it was a miracle that the clouds parted I cannot agree more. For us by lake travis the clouds were covering the eclipse for most of the first half of the eclipse -- LITERALLY A MINUTE BEFORE TOTALITY there was a break in the clouds and we were able to see totality in... well.. totality. It was incredible.

I watched your feed from Los Angeles, CA, and I absolutely loved the shots you shared. It was totally wild!

I think I have following TMI since the beginning and I think, Joe, you owe us all t-shirt merch that says "I'll try to post more on TMI". Because it is a meme now and that's its own beautiful thing.

I thoroughly enjoy your videos. I personally enjoy the ones that are longer. I’ve watched them all numerous times. I have about 10-15 in my coffer that I fall asleep to every night. Thanks Joe. I’ll watch anything you put out there. ❤

@JennT100

3 ай бұрын

Could you make the severed head video longer??? Lol

Good call on giving yourself room to breathe! Take your time, restructure correctly, and we'll be here when you're ready to kick it back into gear!

We were S of Cleveland and watched with a pinhole box until full then naked eye. The frogs started peeping chirping, streetlights on, temp drop, wind. Then we thought to do a time lapse from iPhone and this turned out to be really good of the area and us. Wish we had done one for the full duration. My 3rd one. 2024, 2017, and 1991 in Mexico on a carnival cruise dubbed the Ship'o'Nerds, met Buzz Aldrin and shook his hand on that nerd-ship

OMG perfect analysis and simultaneous slam of the unfortunate person who refused to see the eclipse because "the media told everyone to look at it." Top notch content and commentary as always Joe. Thank you so much. Do what's right for you bro, your fans will support you.

I am almost 70 and saw totality for the first time here in Erie, Pa. I am now a totality snob. If you saw a partial, it’s not the same. Definitely a top 5 life event for me.

Towards the end, it sounds like you’re having a Total Eclipse of the Heart.

I'm 28 and traveled with my 60-70 year old parents to Cleburne, Texas to view the eclipse. To experience that with them was most important to me. The clouds parted to view it for us too just like you described! Thank you for your videos. The little *watch buzz* edit was so unnecessary but a little detail most people don't notice. You didn't have to do that but you did. Hope you have a good week!

i watched the eclipse from dallas, i cant believe how lucky we got with the breaks in the clouds! thank goodness for north texas unpredictable weather

I have a fellow reptile keeper friend that was in the total eclipse. All his Tegu’s went inside their hide boxes & went to sleep. As soon as the sun came back out, they woke up and came back outside to continue sunning.

I'm not a person who gets emotional or sheds tears in public. but it was instantaneous. The tears came immediately without even thinking about it. It had never happened to me before.

I have a rose garden and the colors were almost fluorescent, chickens just laid down in the run, and the sunrise around everywhere. Loved watching your stream afterwards.

Congrats Joe, i am glad your stepping back, retooling, and getting a operations manager for back in so you focus on the creative side. You take care of you and the misses.

We are lucky enough to have been in the path of totality in 2017 and 2024. This one was a completely different experience. in 2017 I had 2 cameras, trying to catch video and good still shots. I had a white sheet to capture the snakes etc. I was so busy that I feel like I missed it. This year we went to a sandstone glade over a bluff in Shawnee National Forest far away from anyone else just to experience 3m40s of totality and it was amazing. We had no clouds and we were shocked at how dark it got. In 2017 we had lots of clouds so we just had an amber glow, it was way brighter. The corona was mesmerizing. I was watching nature. It was neat seeing all the birds get active leading up to totality as well as all the butterflies and other insects. Just before totality nothing was flying. Doves started calling and frogs started calling. We did experience the temperature change, we got chilly. After totality the doves and frogs continued to call for about 15 min, birds and butterflies were flying about 10 min after totality. I am so glad that I had the change to experience this one because after the first one I was sort of ho hum about eclipses.

Good morning Joe from The Why Files ❤

@lindaseel9986

3 ай бұрын

Hey Victoria! 😀

@victoriay6246

3 ай бұрын

@@lindaseel9986Fancy seeing you here!!! 🎉❤ hello back! I’ve followed Joe for 5 plus years!!!

@lindaseel9986

3 ай бұрын

@@victoriay6246 I have for about 4 years. 💓

I had always wanted to see an eclipse. I brought my nieces and nephew to see it. I wasn't sure if they would appreciate it with a 2 hour drive (3 with all the traffic) as anything other than a day off of school. But they absolutely loved it. The eldest, who turns 13 in a week, doesn't admit to liking anything spent most of the return trip telling her friend over the phone how cool it was, and her little sister is already saying that she wants to go see the next one in twenty years. That made me feel even better than actually being able to see the eclipse.

Your excitement was infectious. I really enjoyed watching your live stream since we didn't get much from GA.

Agreed about it being a positive shared experience. 2024 is going to be pretty difficult for many reasons, so it is a therapeutic experience for humanity to enjoy this. We need inspirations!

Yes, it was big, and most importantly, in 3D! That was simply awesome! It was a true hole in the sky! I was also amazed that shadows were evident the second it ended (and, for that matter, the second before totality)! It shows you the incredible brightness of our star from where we observe it!

I live in Houston and went to Waco with a couple of friends to see the eclipse. We were hanging out at an eclipse party at a brewery, and we definitely noticed the temperature change. We didn't even have that much cloud cover, so we were able to see pretty much the entire transit. It was an incredible experience.

My sons and I drove from Sudbury Ontario to Hopkinsville Kentucky in 2017 to see the eclipse. Well worth the 24 hours of driving. This time we travelled 5 hours to friends of ours home where the eclipse was to last just over 2 minutes. Weather was not looking great so we all headed further south about an hour to a little town called Selkirk and set up in a ball field. We were rewarded with much less cloud cover that cleared up in time for the eclipse. The only glitch was my friend's camera failed during setup (BAD BATTERIES!) which forced us to use our peepers for totality. We regret nothing and I'm glad he and his family got to join us for an experience they surely wont forget. Cheers!

The total eclipse was one of the most incredible things I've seen, seriously awe inspiring. I definitely noticed the temperature drop and the wind pick up. I also noticed a poor bat flying around unaware the sun was about to come back out.

Hello fellow eclipse snob! I saw the one in 2017 so I've been a snob for a little bit longer. Had a similar experience flying to Austin and going up to Waco to view this one. Closely looking at the weather, I had already written off being able to see it this time around but on the day, everything just worked out. The clouds opened up and we saw it. Didn't get emotional either but definitely in awe.

I was in Indianapolis. When it went total there was this huge cheer off in the distance. I think it came from a nearby high school. That shared experience was probably the best part.

Thanks for sharing your perspective Joe. ❤ Please don’t give up on your channel. We love you and I look forward to your weekly content. I think it’s a great idea to have you focus more on the creative side of things. Sending so much love.

So glad you filmedit, appreciate it. Especially the solar flares

Saw Totality up in Burlington VT. Same reaction - it's so big and dynamic and sparkly! The guy next to me said "it's like a giant fire made of diamonds" and it is! So it's not the darkness, or anything else. It's this amazing sparkly shimmering HUGE thing up in the sky and then it's gone. Now every time I see the Sun I think: "I know what you're hiding. Show it to us again, won't you?"

Hi Joe I can't pinpoint a exact moment that I was amazed by but I have to say that the return of the sunlight was kind of magical ! Not that the eclipse wasn't but it kind of surprised me how quickly the effects was, not like s sunrise, different! Anyways was watching you while it was going on. Thanks

I really enjoyed your livestream. Thank you providing it!

THAT 'Mass ejection' at the '6 o'clock' position grew and grew and, just thinking that... THAT was probably a SIMILAR SIZE to the Earth itself! 🤔😮 😎🇬🇧

I live in North Carolina. So not in the path of totality, but it did get dark enough for crickets to chirp. I’m glad someone else noticed the crickets. Really enjoy your channel

Was down in Paducah, KY; I was completely blown away. I will be traveling to see any eclipse I can in the future. I won't be bringing my camera either, I will simply be in the moment. Picture don't do it justice, it just sparkles... any of ya'll out there, the next american one is in Alaska 7 years from now, GO SEE IT! You will not be disappointed.

@naciremasti

3 ай бұрын

March 30, 2033, is 9 years from now.

I was lucky enough to see two total eclipses. And yes, I was also Total Douche Eclipse Guy. We even dragged a friend a few hours away to see this one. She now understands too.

A photographer friend made the comment today, as the geomagnetic storm sweeps the world, that one of the most incredible things he is experiencing is the shared joy of people, all around the world, who would not normally have the experience, getting to see the northern and southern auroras. Much the same as you described about your eclipse experience.

I'm so sad, from where I am there won't be any total eclipse in the next decades, hope I can feel it someday! so glad I get to catch the livestream, it was fun 😌 and can't wait to see the new projects you're working on, Joe 🙌🏼

I love both channels Joe, keep up the great work as it suits you. Best wishes

I have told everyone that this was the most amazing thing I have ever seen in my entire 47 years of life. I was completely mind-blown by it. We lucked out in Southern Ontario near Windsor that we had completely blue skies. What I feel made the experience so much more was sharing the experience with 60 other people, at a farm brewery, in the middle of nowhere(the beer probably made it a bit more intense as well). Just as it happened after the flash, and the cheers, we just all went quiet. 100 seconds of everyone in awe. It really made the experience something, where nothing else mattered but this...Temps dropped 12 degrees Celsius.

Drove down from Nebraska to my brothers in College Station, then spent the day in Waco for the Eclipse, was awesome. After the 2017 one was right over my house in Wyoming. I told myself then that I would be in Texas for this one.

Hehehe... Joe, now you know why we in Arizona and New Mexico keep saying, "Yeah, but it's a DRY heat." Shade is even cooler if you've got a nice breeze blowing by.

You are spot on about not feeling the drop in temperature due to the humidity in Dallas. We experienced the eclipse from the Dallas Arboretum where a techie group had a computer set up that monitored the temperature change during the eclipse. Their setup registered a 10 degree drop in temperature during totality. We didn't really feel the temperature drop either. We were lucky enough to experience the 2019 eclipse in desert in Chile, and in that dry environment and at a relatively high elevation it went from a hot day to noticeably cold during totality.

Travelled from Edmonton, Canada to Dallas, and then drove around ridiculously to find sky and finally settled in Waxahachie to watch the spectacle unfold. It was awesome! Wish I could have run into you at some event, so many famous people I watch were there! :) I also tell people now that the difference between 99% and 100% eclipse is the difference between foreplay and an orgasm! ;)

We had to drive about 30 miles to be dead center of the path. I'm glad we did. We considered staying home and seeing the 99%, but decided it wasn't too much effort to head out, and at worst go about 10 miles and be briefly in totality. Anything after was just icing on the cake. We managed to find a small town park where it wasn't too crazy. After, we had to stop and get gas before heading home, and it was amazing how these small groups of people were forming to share their experience while waiting to pay (their pump card readers were out). I will never forget it. And, like you, I am now trying to figure out how to get to the next one.

Sometimes the emotion in an emotional experience *is* just wonder and awe. I saw that emotion coming off you in droves when you turned around and saw it. Some of us feel intensely small and connected and get moved to tears, but others just feel a whole lot of "whoa," and it sounds like that's you.

Definitely felt a decent temperature drop begin about 10 minutes before the time for partial coverage and then rebound about the same, here in Tulsa, OK.... Love the video! 😊🌎❤️🕺🏻🐶

I live in Cedar Park on the northwest border of Austin and the clouds parted just in time for us to see the full eclipse. It was a miracle! It got so dark that the street lights came on. And we DID feel the temp lower about 10 degrees or so. It surprised us. And of course, amazed us. I didn't think much about it until it actually happened. Much more impactful than I imagined. So glad I got to see it.

I drove from California to Dallas to experience the eclipse. When the weather looked dismal that morning, I consulted the aviation weather forecasts to find somewhere without cloud. So I ended up in a small town in Oklahoma surrounded by strangers. The forecasts were nonsense, it was dense cloud until a minute before totality. The eclipsed sun went in and out of cloud, which made for some really beautiful photos. Didn’t notice any change in temperature, and the birds kept chirping and flying overhead throughout. Magical experience.

Here in Ohio there was a noticeable temperature decrease. My cat totally was unfazed in that he wasn’t freaking out but he did run to the window to see what was happening. Yes it was totality. And guess what? I have feelings too 😜.

@9:44 - that just makes you human. No one ever wants something fun to end, or to just experience it once.

I'm in Utah where we had 47% coverage. My dad has been in the hospital for a while so I couldn't travel to see it. Instead, I sat with him in his room and talked about it. We watched it on TV at the same time we had our peak coverage. I hope to catch the next one in person, but it was more important to share the time with my dad. I saw the ring of fire last year in Colorado. That was pretty cool. I'm sure a total would be astounding.

We had cloud cover here in southern Ontario...looked at radar in the morning and the cloud cover was supposed to be over us around 5ish(est)...and then a couple hours later it seemed the cloud cover movement accelerated...so we didn't get to see it but we hung out in our backyard and watched the live stream...thank you for showing it...we did experience the temp change though..had to have dropped at least 5c(9Freedom Units)so that was neat...and thanks to your livestream we found out about the Egypt eclipse in 2027 and are working out a plan to be there.

We got to see the eclipse in Detroit while at work. We all stopped what we were doing and experienced it together. Not as co-workers, but as human beings if you know what I mean. When it got dark the street lights came on and the temperature dropped. The birds were kind of freaking out and something cool my boss pointed out was the reflection of the eclipse on the windshields of the cars from the lot next door. Really dope effect. I would have loved to hear the crickets. I can only imagine how cool that was. As you say, Joe, I'm glad that we got to experience it together.

I was in Ontario, which got 99% (so not quite totality) and because I had eye surgery a few months ago I was too scared to actually look up because my eyes are still sensitive and healing. I went outside though and listened to the birds singing evening songs at 3pm, and watched the sky get dark around me. I was able to "watch" a little bit through my phone (I was looking at the screen with my phone pointed up, so as not to damage my eyes with what is essentially a magnifying glass lol) but it was really cool to just sit and be in the world and hear it sit in silent awe for a few moments. I am very lucky though, because the next day I was able to watch 360° VR videos on my Meta Quest and look directly at the Sun all I wanted! So I am so grateful to the people who upload VR content, because it allowed me to also experience it (although it's obviously not as surreal as in real life - it's better than nothing!) - If anyone else has a VR headset, i highly recommend looking up eclipse content (and honestly just space content in general - Felix and Paul Studos has an incredible series that was filmed in VR on the ISS which makes me cry every time I watch it lol)

I wondered about the bright light. Bless your heart.

I'm so happy people loved watching it, personally not a thing that had any interest to me, but seeing people be wowed and enjoy sharing in a moment, is always great, wether that moment is something unique and rare, or common, the shared experience is the key.

Even if you roast us on a few shorts, just part of the fun. 😂

I saw the 2017 total eclipse with my son who was 7 at the time. He’s 14 now and we all went including my wife to see this one. Drove from memphis up to Cape Girardeau MO, and the fog that morning on the drive up was just horrendous. Super hazardous driving over 45-50 mph on the interstate. But it cleared out later in the morning and we ended up having perfect weather. I definitely noticed the solar radiant heat on my jeans before the eclipse, and as it got closer to totality that radiant heat was almost nonexistent. All in all an unforgettable experience.

I didn't notice if the temperature dropped but I did notice the wind. It was a calm day but a few seconds after totality the wind starting blowing 10-15km/h and stopped shortly after. Every eclipse I'd seen until now had been as you said, either a partial or up close on video through a filter. Interesting, but definitely not the same as being fortunate enough to experience a total eclipse right in my own back yard w/ no filters. It was awesome.

We were in Fredericksburg, TX! The clouds held off _just_ enough for us to have a great experience!

I felt very glad/ lucky as well to have been able to experience this! I live in the northern part of Ohio, right in the dead center of the totality zone! I also felt kind of sad throughout the rest of the day. It was like it was here and gone so, so fast! I didn't really react emotionally to this, but had mostly a fond memory, like some sort of gratitude or something I can 't really explain, I wanted to hold on to with this experience, especially when thinking of my mom, she's 82 years old, has never seen a total eclipse and may very well never see another one. Don't want to think of that, but that's reality. Thanks for sharing your thoughts with us Joe!

Glad you had a chance to be right in the path and share it with everyone. Not to be too much of a contrarian but I would like to close my eyes and see if I notice other effects, though given the chance you had I probably wouldn't. Fun detail about the crickets. One sundown I was talking with my dad outside and noticed that a bunch of birds instantly went silent when the sun dipped below the hills. One sunrise I was assisting in a film (in a graveyard of all places) when the instant the sun crested there was this blast of sun-warmed wind. Sun seemed particularly golden that morning, too

As one of those people south of you who had a terribly overcast day - we got to see the eclipse for about 20 seconds at the start of totality and about 10 seconds at the end. It was super cool! But it was SO short - I feel really bad for everyone who travelled to be around here for it..

I'm from Pennsylvania. We traveled to Erie to see totality and I was blown away. I've seen footage of eclipses but nothing could prepare me for actually seeing it. I almost cried. It was well worth the miserable traffic 😂

I saw the total eclipse in 2017. It was at high altitude in Wyoming and the temperature drop was READILY apparent. Perhaps my favorite part was looking up, seeing the moon and the sun together with the bright planets arrayed to either side, I realized I was looking at a vista of the solar system as a single object and THAT'S where I started weeping uncontrollably. That's a perspective I'll never forget.

Joined you on my laptop near H-town, in the bed of a truck while my phone was face down on selfie mode doing time lapse. Had been drizzly all morning & near 80°, suddenly became partly cloudy & dried up. There was no change in shadows, & the chickens didn’t act out of ordinary, but the temperature dropped to 74°, & the lizards that had been catching rays on the pit, were gone in a blink of an eye. The other two partial eclipse I’ve witnessed were, all around, pretty dramatic.

It was amazing here in Dallas that the skies cleared up just in time to see the eclipse. The gradual movement of the moon seen through those special sunglasses that suddenly produced that perfect ring and quickly bare eyes got to witness this 4 minute wonder. Yes. I want to experience this again!

Love that your leaning into more what feels good for you, I’m in the hard reset process and the book buy back your time by Dan Martell has been an incredible ressource.

I’m a high schooler, and I wasn’t in the path of totality, but we did get a good percentage of totality. My school passed around free eclipse glasses (no idea how we got the funding for that) and right when I got home was around when we were going to get the most coverage. I was super hyped, just generally being a space nerd. But the thing that got me most really was just sitting around with neighbors I’d never met looking up at the sky. Like, we were all different ages and races and walks of life, but we were all just experiencing this. When I got a good look, I passed around my eclipse glasses, and made some friends because of it. Great experience all around.

I saw this over at my brother's house. It was an experience. I'm not sure if they knew what was going through my head but I walked away feeling great.

I saw the 2017 eclipse. I will never forget it. Absolutely incredible.