March 20: Solar Eclipse and Equinox, same day

[hotdogPi]

Times are in UTC, using 24-hour time. (Pacific Daylight Time is UTC-7, and Eastern Daylight Time is UTC-4.)

The solar eclipse begins at 7:41 and ends at 11:50. However, it will not be visible from any populated area of North America (except eastern Newfoundland), and the majority of our members are in North America. However, we have a few members from Europe, and they will experience it.

The equinox is at 22:45. Winter will finally be over!

Sources:
http://www.timeanddate.com/eclipse/solar/2015-march-20
http://www.timeanddate.com/calendar/march-equinox.html

[CNGL-Leudimin]

UTC+1 for Central Europe Summer Time, which is my time zone. We don't have advanced to DST yet (We will do so on March 29th at 1:00 UTC)

And yes, I'll be able to see the eclipse. But only a partial one. It will be total in Svalbard islands. I remember the October 2005 one, which was an anullar one with its path going right through Spain. But the one that will happen in April 2026 IIRC will be better, a total eclipse which will hit my hometown. Of course, in the US there will be other dates for watch a solar eclipse.

[Zeffy]

The equinox is at 22:45. Winter will finally be over!

Not for me. They are predicting rain and snow with colder temperatures for the 1st day of Spring.

[SSOWorld]

First Day of spring? no such thing.

(IMO - The equinoxes and solstices DO NOT indicate a change of season.)

[froggie]

(IMO - The equinoxes and solstices DO NOT indicate a change of season.)

Astronomically, they do.  But not meteorologically.

[CNGL-Leudimin]

Replying myself:

And yes, I'll be able to see the eclipse. But only a partial one. It will be total in Svalbard islands.

Also the Faeroe islands will see the total eclipse. Anyway, I don't think I'll be able to see it, the weather forecast says it will be overcast in my area .

[CNGL-Leudimin]

Finally clouds allowed the eclipse to be seen in my area. I didn't saw it due to not having proper equipment, but my parents were able to see (not directly, obviously) how the Moon obscured three quarters of the Sun at its peak (which was at 10:10 my time zone, 5:10 EDT). Now it's time to wait until 2026 for the total eclipse which will hit my area. And in less than half-a-day, we get into Aries sign.

[english si]

I had ~86% of the sun obscured by the moon, but all that was further obscured by a thick layer of high fog/low cloud.

It just didn't become lighter (as it normally would) from about half 8 to half 9 - clouds that would have been white were merely grey. By half 10, the low clouds had been burnt off, not much (but slightly) later than usual.

[Desert Man]

Here's a vid from BBCOne, the path of totality skipped the UK...between Scotland, Norway and Iceland and was best seen in the Faroe Islands in the North sea and Svalbard in the arctic.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iG9GdfL_ToU

I'm awaiting to view the one in Aug 21, 2017 which the path of totality crosses the Salem, OR area (closest to me in CA). I remember the July 11, 1991 total solar eclipse on live TV on a non-school day, when that was seen over Hawaii, the tip of Baja Cal. and over Mexico city in Mexico.

[kkt]

Yes, 2017.  I'd bet on eastern Oregon a bit north of Bend.  It's less likely to be cloudy than the Willamette Valley.

[SSOWorld]

(IMO - The equinoxes and solstices DO NOT indicate a change of season.)

Astronomically, they do.  But not meteorologically.

and yet meteorologists treat it as a "first day of [insert season here]" despite the misnomer.