New The Solar Eclipse Strip Map


There are some wonderful interactive maps well-nigh this year's solar eclipse that demo you lot where & when you lot tin sentiment the eclipse in addition to how much of an eclipse you lot mightiness see. The Washington Post has instantly released an interactive map which allows you lot to explore the whole path of totality every bit the Sun moves across the United States.

The Washington Post's Travel the Path of the Solar Eclipse is a strip map which allows you lot to explore the whole path of totality every bit it crosses the US of America from West Coast to East Coast. The map starts at Yaquina Head, Oregon, the get-go house inwards the US of America where the path of totality volition look at roughly 1.15 p.m. on Mon August 21st. You tin follow the path of totality across the country, yesteryear scrolling downward the page, until you lot brand it at Cape Island inwards South Carolina.

The map uses satellite imagery every bit the basemap, over which an opaque round down overlay shows you lot the place of the moon's shadow every bit the Sun passes over the country. As you lot scroll downward the page the map highlights interesting locations which autumn inside the eclipse's path. These points of involvement include information, such every bit how long the eclipse volition final in addition to how much of the Sun volition last obscured at that location. You tin rapidly browse through these points of involvement yesteryear using 'the adjacent spot' in addition to 'back' buttons. You tin likewise purpose the modest inset map to rapidly outflow to a place on the map.
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