Yes, we will experience a total solar eclipse in 2024, this spectacle of an event rarely happens but this year on the 8th of April 2024, the world will experience a solar eclipse, particularly in the United States of America. On the 8th of April 2024 we will not just experience any eclipse but a total solar eclipse. The last time a total solar eclipse was experience was on 21 August 2017. Here is your guide to the 2024 Total Solar Eclipse!
What is a total solar eclipse though? In order to understand what a total solar eclipse is, first you need to understand what solar eclipse is? When it occurs and what happens when it does.
What is a Solar Eclipse?
A solar eclipse is a natural occurrence of beauty that occurs when the moon passes between the sun and earth, blocking the sun’s view and casting a shadow at a specific area upon the earth. The event in itself is a sight to marvel at and occurs almost every 6 months in a general. In the past solar eclipses were considered bad omens but scientist have now managed to accurately predict eclipses and explain how they occur.
What is a Total Solar Eclipse
So, during a solar eclipse there is a part of the earth that experiences a total blocking of the sun, that is, the moon covers the disk of the sun completely while passing, the area that is directly underneath this phenomenon is said to be experiencing a total solar eclipse at that time. Naturally other areas within that part of the earth will also experience the solar eclipse but from an angle, so they don’t get to see the moon fully cover the sun but partially.
On the 8th of April 2024 the North American continent will experience a solar eclipse and some states in the United States of American and places in Mexico will experience a total solar eclipse.
Which areas in the North America will experience the total solar eclipse
According to NASA, Mexico, United States of America and Canada are the only countries that will experience the total solar eclipse and these will occur in the following areas of each of the country:
- Mazatlán, Mexico
- Torreon, Mexico
- Texas, United States
- Oklahoma, United States
- Arkansas, United States
- Missouri, United States
- Illinois, United States
- Kentucky, United States
- Indiana, United States
- Ohio, United States
- Pennsylvania, United States
- New York, United States
- Vermont, United States
- New Hampshire, United States
- Maine, United States
- Tennessee, United States
- Michigan, United States
- Southern Ontario, Canada
- Quebec, Canada
- New Brunswick, Canada
- Prince Edward Island, Canada
- Cape Breton, Canada
The eclipse will then exit the North America continent on the Atlantic coast of Newfoundland, Canada, at 5:16 p.m. NDT.
That’s not all you can determine the exact location and time in the above areas of when this will occur along the total solar eclipse path on the NASA website.
When is the Next Total Solar Eclipse
To all solar eclipse chasers, according to TimeandDate the next total solar eclipse will happen on 12 August 2026 in Greenland, Iceland, Portugal, Russia and Spain.
And just a side note, Spain is the country to be, they will experience the phenomena twice in the next 5 years.
When will Namibia Experience a Total Solar Eclipse
Six years from now Australia and the southern part of Africa will have a chance to experience the the total solar eclipse. This will happen on 25 November 2030 and countries like Australia, Botswana, Lesotho, Namibia and South Africa will be fully under the total eclipse.
