August 18, 2017
Grab your solar eclipse glasses: sunny skies are predicted in the Philadelphia region for Monday afternoon's partial solar eclipse.
"There are no issues," said Mitchell Gaines, a forecaster with the National Weather Service in Mount Holly.
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Forecasters earlier in the week had worried about cloud cover to the south creeping northward, but that's no longer a concern.
Temps should be in the mid-80s Monday afternoon as a partial eclipse shadows about 75 percent of the sun in the sky above the city.
Monday's eclipse will cut a 70-mile-wide path of totality across the country from west to east as the moon moves between Earth and the sun, blocking it for as long as 2½ minutes.
It's the first coast-to-coast full eclipse since 1918.
The nearest location to Philadelphia to see a total eclipse is theoretically South Carolina, but scattered thunderstorms and lots of cloud cover are likely to obscure the sun there.
The partial eclipse here begins at 1:21 p.m., hits maximum shadow coverage at 2:44 p.m., and ends at 4:01 p.m.
Viewing the eclipse without using solar glasses can cause vision damage, experts warn.
