Total Solar Eclipse of August 21, 2017

Total Solar Eclipse of 2017 August 21

Monday, August 21, 2017, a total solar eclipse will track from the Pacific to the Atlantic. The shadow of the moon will track over parts of Oregon, Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, Nebraska, Kansas, Missouri, Illinois, Kentucky, Tennessee, North Carolina, Georgia, and South Carolina. The total eclipse will begin near Newport, Oregon at 1:16 PM EDT and will end near Charleston, South Carolina at 2:48 PM EDT. A partial eclipse will occur for the rest of the United States. The next total eclipse that can be seen from a large portion of the United States will not occur until 2024. The next total eclipse that can be seen from the west coast to the east coast will be in 2045. For the bi-state area, most areas will see between 94 to 99 percent eclipse of the sun midday on Monday, August, 21, 2017. The only areas that will see total 100% eclipse of the sun will be across central Missouri...roughly from the St. Joseph and north Kansas City area to Jefferson City to south of St Louis and into southwest Illinois. See maps and links provided for more details on eclipse information.

Above: Total solar eclipse over Missouri

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credit: NASA

Above: Total solar eclipse over Illinois

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credit: NASA

Climatology Information

Station/Variable	KCOU	KJEF	Freedom	Rosebud	Union	KFAM	KSUS	KSTL	Festus	KCPS	KSAR
8/21 Normal Low	65	65	63	62	65	64	65	69	64	64	64
8/21 Normal High	87	87	87	87	90	87	88	88	87	88	87
8/21 Average Precipitation	0.15	0.16	0.09	0.05	0.03	0.11	0.10	0.09	0.05	0.11	0.03
1 PM Average Temperature	84	84	N/A	N/A	N/A	83	85	85	N/A	85	84
1 PM Average Heat Index	86	86	N/A	N/A	N/A	85	87	87	N/A	87	86
2 PM Average Temperature	85	85	N/A	N/A	N/A	85	86	86	N/A	86	85
2 PM Average Heat Index	87	87	N/A	N/A	N/A	87	88	88	N/A	88	87
1-2 PM Chance of Rain	7%	7%	N/A	N/A	N/A	10%	7%	7%	N/A	4%	M
1-2 PM Chance Cloudy	35%	22%	N/A	N/A	N/A	24%	22%	52%	N/A	24%	M

M = Missing Data N/A = hourly data for these variables not available.

KCOU = Columbia Regional Airport

KJEF = Jefferson City Memorial Airport

KFAM = Farmington Airport

KSUS = Spirit of St. Louis Airport (Chesterfield, MO)

KSTL = Lambert-St. Louis International Airport

KCPS = St. Louis Downtown Airport (Cahokia, IL)

KSAR = Sparta Community-Hunter Field Airport (Sparta, IL)

Long Term Weather Forecast

The Climate Prediction Center has forecasts available ranging from 3 months, 3 - 4 weeks, 8 - 14 days, and 6 - 10 days.

http://www.cpc.noaa.gov/

Short Term, More Specific Forecast
On every National Weather Service Weather Forecast Office home page, there is a point-and-click map which will give you a forecast for the point you selected. We also have other pages available which can give you the forecast in graphical or tabular form. One of the forecast fields is Percent of Sky Cover (cloud cover forecast).

Hourly Weather Graph -- Get an hourly forecast for a specific point, including the forecast for the percent of cloud cover. On the map, click on the point you are interested in.
Weather Activity Planner -- User selected Sky and Weather Parameters
User Defined Area Forecast -- General forecast for an area defined by the user

Eclipse maps courtesy of NASA.
For more information on the 2017 total solar eclipse, see: https://eclipse2017.nasa.gov/

NASA Interactive Map: https://eclipse2017.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/interactive_map/index.html

Eclipse resources: https://eclipse2017.nasa.gov/downloadables

St. Louis Eclipse Task Force: http://www.missourieclipse2017.com/

NASA Satellite Imagery: https://weather.msfc.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/sportPublishData.pl?dataset=goes16abiconus&product=11p20um

Total Solar Eclipse of August 21, 2017

Climatology Information

Long Term Weather Forecast

The Climate Prediction Center has forecasts available ranging from 3 months, 3 - 4 weeks, 8 - 14 days, and 6 - 10 days. http://www.cpc.noaa.gov/

The Climate Prediction Center has forecasts available ranging from 3 months, 3 - 4 weeks, 8 - 14 days, and 6 - 10 days.

http://www.cpc.noaa.gov/