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Solar Eclipse to Occur at Sunrise on Thursday for
Northeastern U.S.
Published: June 08, 2021 at
03:00 p.m.
By: Press Release from AccuWeather Global Weather
Center
1st US solar
eclipse in years to darken sky in major cities
Right at sunrise on Thursday morning, people
across the northeastern U.S. and eastern Canada will be able to see, if
skies are clear enough, more than half of the sun blocked out by the moon.
AccuWeather Global Weather Center – June 8,
2021 – The Earth, moon and sun will align again for
the second time in as many weeks to create a solar eclipse that will be
visible for part of Canada and the United States — but only if Mother
Nature cooperates and provides clear skies.
On May 26, the moon passed through Earth’s
shadow during a lunar eclipse, and on June 10, the roles will be reversed
as the moon casts a shadow on the Earth during the first of two solar
eclipses in 2021.
This event will be a far cry from the Great
American Eclipse of 2017 when day turned to night from Oregon to South
Carolina, but it will still be an impressive show for those in its path.
The upcoming celestial alignment will create
an annular solar eclipse, otherwise known as a “ring of fire” eclipse as
the moon will be slightly farther away from the Earth than normal, meaning
it will not quite be large enough to block out the sun entirely.
The result will be a halo of sunlight around
the moon during the height of the eclipse, but this spectacle will only be
visible to the remote areas of northern Ontario, far northwestern
Greenland, around the North Pole and eastern Russia.
However, millions of people will still be
able to see a partial solar eclipse.
A global map of
the shadow path for the June 10, 2021, annular solar eclipse. Times are in
Coordinated Universal Time (UTC). (Image/NASA's Scientific Visualization Studio )
Right at sunrise on Thursday morning, people
across the northeastern U.S. and eastern Canada will be able to see, if
skies are clear enough, more than half of the sun blocked out by the moon.
This includes metropolitan areas like New
York City, Boston, Toronto, Montreal and Quebec
City.
The shaded area of the map is where the solar
eclipse will be visible after sunrise on June 10, 2021. (Image/NASA)
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