Sure, this solar eclipse was a bust, but Mississippi has a much better one coming
Monday’s view of the solar eclipse was rained out on the Coast, but the next one is only 21 years away and will cross directly over Mississippi.
Circle the date of Aug. 12, 2045, when a total solar eclipse will take a path from California to Florida, crossing over central Mississippi.
Then people in South Mississippi can ooh and aah as darkness falls during the total eclipse and the ring of fire forms as the moon travels between the Earth and the sun.
NASA already has a website to provide initial information on that eclipse and others past and future.
The 2017 eclipse in South Mississippi saw schools let out to let students and teachers witness the spectacle and people gathered on the beach to get a good view.
If 2045 seems like a long wait for the next eclipse, Coast residents can do what thousands of people did for Monday’s eclipse and travel to a state in the path of the next eclipse. It will be a long trip, though, as in nine years, an eclipse will cross from Russia and Alaska in 2033.
For a test drive of the 2045 eclipse, a total solar eclipse will be visible from North Dakota, Montana and Canada a year earlier on Aug. 22, 2044.
This story was originally published April 8, 2024 at 3:34 PM.
