Clear skies expected as P.E.I. counts down the hours until total solar eclipse
CBC
The much-anticipated day has arrived for sky watchers, and a total solar eclipse will begin making its way across the western third of Prince Edward Island just before 3:30 p.m. AT.
That's when the moon's position in the sky will start to block our view of the sun — leading to a short period of darkness when the rays that illuminate and heat our planet will be completely blocked for many locations on Earth.
The astronomy folks at the University of Prince Edward Island have posted a chart showing the best watching times for various communities across the Island. Click here to check for your area.
"If you're not able to spend the entire two-hour-plus duration of the eclipse watching it," UPEI's physics department said on its website, "then the most interesting part will be around the time when the eclipse is at its maximum.
"That is when the most of the moon's disc is covered by the sun."
The physicists said more than 99 per cent of the sun would be obscured at that moment of totality, everywhere on the Island.
But if you miss this eclipse, it's not like missing a bus and just catching the next one.
After this event slips away from Prince Edward Island, at 5:44 p.m., the next total solar eclipse seen from here will not be until May 1, 2079 — 55 years from now.
Given that, several communities in Western P.E.I. have been planning eclipse-watching events. CBC News will set up at the one at the Mill River Resort in Woodstock.
But that event's 400 tickets released to the general public have long been snapped up.
Here's a list of a few other venues, some of which include music, refreshments and activities for children:
Eclipse tourism is expected to bring hordes of people to Western P.E.I., including many of the 2,500 cruise ship passengers arriving on Port Charlottetown's first visit of the season, from MSC Poesia.
Closer to the centre of the Island, the City of Charlottetown is also bracing for an influx of eclipse watchers.
In a news release Friday, the city said it would temporarily close the inside lane of the Victoria Park Roadway, between Terry Fox Drive and Victoria Park Driveway, from 2 p.m. to 7 p.m. Monday, to let the public to safely watch the eclipse.
Miles Purden started noticing woodpeckers taking aim at his home in North Kamloops in 2020.
Flu cases are on the rise across the province, while immunization uptake is the lowest it's been in more than a decade, two infectious disease experts say.
At his ranch in Black Pines, just outside Kamloops, B.C., Ed LeBourdais knows how to get his bulls' attention.
Anxiety is the most common reason Island students are turning to well-being teams in schools, says a social worker involved with a P.E.I. support program.
Pauline Frost, chief of the Vuntut Gwitchin First Nation in northern Yukon, usually looks forward to late January, when the winter sun returns to her Arctic village.
This story is part of Welcome to Canada, a CBC News series about immigration told through the eyes of the people who have experienced it.
Will it be sticker shock for Toronto homeowners again this year?
Researchers at the University of Waterloo say they've made a breakthrough in introducing a new trait into bacteria found in wastewater, giving them the ability to break down microplastics.
Aircraft dropped water and fire retardant on steep hills, and ground firefighting efforts were stepped up in a bid to stem the eastward spread of the Palisades wildfire in Los Angeles on Saturday, amid new predictions of wind gusts that could hit 110 kilometres per hour.
Seven people are in custody following a raid on a home on Mundy Pond Road in St. John's on Saturday.
Four people were taken to hospital, at least one with serious injuries, after a fire early Saturday in a duplex in Lower Sackville, N.S.