The Solar Eclipse Strip Map

There are some wonderful interactive maps almost this year's solar eclipse that demonstrate you lot where & when you lot tin thought the eclipse as well as how much of an eclipse you lot mightiness see. The Washington Post has straightaway 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 the States from West Coast to East Coast. The map starts at Yaquina Head, Oregon, the outset house inwards the the States where the path of totality volition look at to a greater extent than or less 1.15 p.m. on Mon August 21st. You tin follow the path of totality across the country, past times scrolling downwardly 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 downwardly 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 end as well as how much of the Sun volition endure obscured at that location. You tin chop-chop browse through these points of involvement past times using 'the side past times side spot' as well as 'back' buttons. You tin besides purpose the small-scale inset map to chop-chop fountain to a place on the map.