NEWSWEEK
As millions of people across the United States are set to witness a rare total solar eclipse on Monday afternoon, a meteorologist shared an updated forecast for several popular cities along the path of totality.
Kelly Godsey, senior service hydrologist and meteorologist at the National Weather Service (NWS) in Tallahassee, Florida, said on Sunday night during a phone call with Newsweek that the storm systems moving across the U.S. over the next 12 hours will play the biggest factor in how good of a view eclipse spectators will have during totality.
The celestial phenomenon on Monday, which will pass over a vast majority of the United States, Mexico and Canada, coincides with the peak of a solar maximum when the sun is exceptionally active, according to forecasters with NASA and the US National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR). It will also be the last total solar eclipse visible in the U.S. until 2044.
