>>>>>Getting a 95% solar eclipse here this morning. Max in about 15mins - already need lights in the office. Perfect conditions to view - a wall to wall clear blue sky.
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>>>>%43 at Istanbul. Weather is cloudly, we felt no difference... :(
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>>>All over to the USA for 2017.
>>>You know how the department of Homeland security would welcome hundreds of thousands of foreigners coming to see the Sun disappear over their country. :-)
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>>Go to Los Angeles anytime. The sun disappeared long ago.
>>Denver is pretty bad too, I'm sorry to say.
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>Sun is out and its a very nice day in London now. Weirdly one of the worst cities for pollution in England is Bath. I thinks its because of the hills around it.

Snowing here in New Jersey today, but I played golf yesterday - at last!

I took some of my military training as a 17 year-old in Denver. Then the air was as pure as you'd find in the Alps.
When I went there on business many decades later, I was shocked when we landed though the brown inversion layer that blankets the city now.