Annular Solar Eclipse

During a solar eclipse, it’s important to protect your eyes from the sun’s harmful rays. Looking directly at the sun, even during an eclipse, can seriously hurt your eyes and even cause permanent damage.

To keep your eyes safe, you must use special eclipse glasses or solar filters to safely watch a solar eclipse. These glasses have special lenses that block harmful light, allowing you to enjoy the eclipse without any worries. Remember, never use regular sunglasses or homemade filters for eclipse watching – only certified eclipse glasses or approved solar filters will keep your eyes out of harm’s way!

Eclipse glasses or solar filters must be used the entire time of the eclipse. You cannot take off the glasses, even during annularity.

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Tom Green County October Eclipse Weather Climatology

Cloud cover across much of the eclipse path is usually ideal for eclipse viewing, especially from Nevada into West Central Texas. While there is no strong indication for rainfall, the three-month outlook that includes the eclipse time is more likely than not to be warmer than normal.

Temperatures

The average high in San Angelo is 81 degrees. Highs above 90 degrees are relatively common (10%) and may approach 100 degrees. The average low temperature is 56 degrees. Morning lows below 45 degrees are not uncommon (15%), but the only freeze occurred over 80 years ago in 1940.

Rainfall

Severe weather on Oct. 14 is rare (1%). Chances for the weekly period around the eclipse are higher (41%), with lightning chances about 47%. There have been numerous reports of large hail up to golf ball size, damaging winds and flooding during the period around the eclipse in October.

It has rained around the eclipse date around 20% of the years, with the most occurring when 3.92 inches fell on Oct. 12, 1969.

Climate information provided by the National Weather Service.