Follow the solar eclipse's path of totality and its arrival time in New York
What is the path of totality for the 2024 Solar eclipse? In New York, Niagara Falls, Buffalo and Rochester will all be in the path, as will Watertown and Plattsburgh.
Locally, Brockport is directly on the center line of totality, as is the Horseshoe Falls in Niagara Falls.
The shadow will be traveling at an average of about 2,300 miles per hour across New York state and will only take about 10 minutes, from one side of state to the other, said Dan Schneiderman, RMSC's eclipse partnership coordinator.
Across North America, notable cities in the path of totality include Mazatlán and Torreón, Mexico; San Antonio, Austin and Dallas, Texas; Little Rock, Arkansas; Indianapolis, Indiana; Cleveland, Ohio; Buffalo and Rochester, New York; Burlington, Vermont; and most of Montreal, Canada.
Follow the path of totality for solar eclipse 2024
2024 total solar eclipse arrival times in US
What time will eclipse be on April 8, 2024 in Rochester NY?
Starting at 2:07 p.m. April 8 in Rochester, the moon will begin to appear to move in front of the sun. Totality begins at 3:20 p.m. and will last for 3 minutes and 38 seconds (plus or minus a few seconds depending where you are standing.) By 4:33 p.m. the moon will have moved past the sun returning the light to normal.
What happens during total solar eclipse?
The moon will line up perfectly between the Earth and the sun, blotting out the sunlight. It will take just a couple hours for the moon's shadow to slice a diagonal line from the southwest to the northeast across North America, briefly plunging communities along the track into darkness.
Among the cities smack dab in the action: Dallas; Little Rock, Arkansas; Indianapolis, Cleveland, Ohio; Rochester, Buffalo, New York; and Montreal — making for the continent’s biggest eclipse crowd.
But, practically everyone on the continent can catch at least a partial eclipse. The farther from the path of totality, the smaller the moon’s bite will be out of the sun.
Caution: Looking at the sun in an eclipse will fry your eyes painfully. Take it from someone who knows
Why is totality longer?
By a cosmic stroke of luck, the moon will make the month’s closest approach to Earth the day before the total solar eclipse. That puts the moon just 223,000 miles away on eclipse day. The moon will appear slightly bigger in the sky thanks to that proximity, resulting in an especially long period of sun-blocked darkness.
What’s more, the Earth and moon will be 93 million miles from the sun that day, the average distance. When a closer moon pairs up with a more distant sun, totality can last as long as an astounding 7 1/2 minutes. The last time the world saw more than seven minutes of totality was in 1973 over Africa. That won’t happen again until 2150 over the Pacific.
Contributing: Democrat and Chronicle reporter Victoria Freile; USA Today Network; Associated Press
This article originally appeared on Rochester Democrat and Chronicle: Solar eclipse 2024: Follow path of totality and arrival time in NY
