Signs of the Times: “X Marks the Spot”: Rare Total Solar Eclipse Coming Soon Hasn’t Happened Since 1918… but Here’s Where It Gets Weird
Coming this summer, we will see an event unlike any we’ve seen in North America since 1918: a total solar eclipse crossing the entire United States in a line from coast to coast on August 21, 2017.
Path of 2017 total solar eclipse.
The eclipse will begin around 9:48 am
Pacific Standard Time. According to NASA, the longest duration of
totality will be 2 minutes 41.6 seconds at 37°35′0″N 89°7′0″W in Shawnee
National Forest south of Carbondale, Illinois and the greatest extent
will be at 36°58′0″N 87°40′18″W near Cerulean, Kentucky.
(Img: NASA)
Although it is a narrow swath, it will be the first total solar
eclipse visible in the US at all since July 11, 1991. While the rest of
the country will see only a partial eclipse, it will be the first
visible in the southeastern part of the country since March 1970.But here’s where it gets even more interesting…
Even though a total coast-to-coast solar eclipse hasn’t happened in America since 1918, not only are we seeing one this year, but we’re set to see another total coast-to-coast solar eclipse just seven years after that on April 8, 2024… and the other one will complete a giant “X” across the entire United States.
2017 and 2024 total solar eclipse paths over the US.
And that’s not all…If you plot the two total eclipse paths on a map, it would appear the giant “X” intersects right over the New Madrid fault line near Cape Girardeau, Missouri and Paducah, Kentucky — which will thus see two total solar eclipses in less than seven years.
Some people say these are “signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars” in a Biblical, end times type of sense… just saying.
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