Solar eclipse now one week away

It’s now one week away from the solar eclipse that some people have been waiting years to see.

Wisconsin is set to see about 85% of the sun covered by the moon on Monday April 8th, but the real prized area to see the eclipse is where the moon completely covers the sun for a few brief minutes from parts of Texas up through Maine.

Millions of people are expected to converge on this line of totality to see the up to four minutes when day becomes night, confusing birds and animals to roost or return home for the night, and crickets to start chirping.

At one week out, mother nature is sending second guesses to eclipse chasers on where they are planning to see the eclipse as a big storm system looks to over ride
the area with cloud cover. Most people had planned on heading to Texas, where cloud cover, based on previous years, would tend to be lower than other parts of the United States, but this doesn’t appear to be the case this year.

While no area has shown it’s self to be a favorable area for no clouds, areas of Illinois and Indiana seem to be the most likely at this time to have a view of the eclipse. What few hotel rooms in those areas that are still available, are going for around $1000 for Sunday night.

KFIZ News Director Doug Raflik is planning on heading to the path of totality and if he is able to get into a position where it’s visible, will plan to live stream the event on the KFIZ Facebook page. Though getting to a clear area will be half the battle to achieve this, as millions of spectators in the same area may over tax the cell towers in the area
making it difficult to get a signal on a phone.

As of Monday, the forecast for Wisconsin doesn’t look conducive for viewing the eclipse as a storm system looks to be overspreading the area.

KFIZ will update Wisconsin’s chance at seeing the eclipse as well as Doug’s venture to chase down a view of the total eclipse as the week goes on.