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It’s still early, but the weather maps for next Monday’s total solar eclipse path across the United States favor cloudy skies along the majority of the path. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s latest Global Forecast System model run (see the top of this post) shows cloud cover across most of the eclipse path in…

The sun erupted on March 22 at 9:45 p.m. EDT (0145 GMT on March 23) with a powerful X-class solar flare and unleashed a barrage of super-hot plasma towards Earth in what is known as a coronal mass ejection (CME). The energetic onslaught hit our planet at 10:37 a.m. EDT (1437 GMT) on Sunday, March…