Vancouver Will See Near Total Solar Eclipse (90%) on August 21, 2017

[DonLever]

Today there was a total solar eclipse over Europe. We will get a chance to see a Near Total Solar Eclipse on August 22, 2017. 90% of the Sun will be blotted out. 10:22 am is maximum coverage.

Last tine Vancouver saw such an eclipse was 1918.

Hope it won't rain that day.

[6of1_halfdozenofother]

Oh great, right in the middle of our ???? audit. What the frack were the sun and moon thinking about, man?

[thejazz97]

Wonder if Saskat - never mind, I might not be here then. Hope I get to see it!

[MRAY]

Interesting...I cant wait then!

[avelanch]

Oh great, right in the middle of our ???? audit. What the frack were the sun and moon thinking about, man?

you know when you are going to be audited 2.5 years in advance?

[Green Building]

Today there was a total solar eclipse over Europe. We will get a chance to see a Near Total Solar Eclipse on August 22, 2017. 90% of the Sun will be blotted out. 10:22 am is maximum coverage.

Last tine Vancouver saw such an eclipse was 1918.

Hope it won't rain that day.

1918?

I remember being in elementary school in the mid 80's and having the teachers call us all outside to witness an eclipse that darkened much of the sky, don't know about percentages though.

[6of1_halfdozenofother]

you know when you are going to be audited 2.5 years in advance?

Annual audit. Falls right into that time of year.

[The Horvatian One]

I wonder if Bo will be the captain by then?

I wonder who our goalie will be then?

I wonder if Kassian will still be getting shopped?

I wonder if Virtanen will be on the team?

Only Bo knows

Anyways, yeah that's pretty cool hopefully it wont rain haha

[Ghostsof1915]

And it will rain that day.

It's in late August. The PNE almost always brings rain.

[Offensive Threat]

And it will rain that day.

It's in late August. The PNE almost always brings rain.

PNE without the lines. I go only if it does rain.

Ive seen a few partials. Once in Ottawa as a kid our teachers gave everyone these cardboard sunglasses to wear, kinda like cheap 3-D glasses,and told us not look anyways. I dont know if that was a total eclipse or not. Seemed close if it wasnt.

[DonLever]

There is a site that list every solar and lunar eclipse from 1900 to 2099.

http://www.timeanddate.com/eclipse/"]http://www.timeanddate.com/eclipse/list.html

If you look up the June 8, 1918 eclipse, Vancouver fell under the path for a 90% blockage of the sun, similar to what we will get in 2017. We have never got such an eclipse since then. There was one in 1989 that was barely noticeable since it only cover half the sun.

[Ronalds.Kenins41]

Reminds me of that time we were supposed to have some meteor shower here and one of friends decided to stay outside for the night so he could get a chance to see it. It was going to start from 12 am. He said he'd call me when it started (he always had to tell me whenever he saw something amazing). He never called and came the next day very upset, tired and sick. I asked what happened? He replied "I waited all night for it to come and it never did, instead all I got was a airplane and a cold."

He was upset because he noticed that everyone on the East Coast had amazing stories about the meteor shower and he just had a cold. Vancouver is always terrible for this stuff.