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A Total Solar Eclipse is expected for the month of April and can be observed in much of North America. It does not have the potential to cause any risk to people’s health, but United States authorities have already issued several warnings related to the phenomenon.
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What’s behind so many alerts?
Just in the last few days, it was ordered to close all schools in the state of Texas, in addition to recommending that the population stock up on fuel, water and food, including for pets.
The authorities’ fears are not related to the eclipse itself, but to the large increase in the flow of tourists expected for the date. There have already been warnings about increased pressure on transport and emergency services.
All this because some small cities are expected to triple in population and do not have the structure to accommodate so many people.
What we may have are crowds here that we are not used to. We are not prepared for this. Many of the roads here are two lanes. This isn’t Chicago, this isn’t Cleveland, where we have a lot of four-lane, six-lane roads coming in, so traffic can be very extreme here if we have more crowds than we expect.
Dave Freeman, director of the Lorain County Emergency Management Agency
Cell phone towers can also become overloaded, affecting signal quality and hampering communications. The information is from IFLScience.
The eclipse
- On April 8, the Moon will cover the Sun in a Total Solar Eclipse that can be seen from various regions of North America, allowing millions of people to observe the phenomenon, which results in an almost perfect coverage of the star.
- Unfortunately, the event will not be seen in Brazil.
- The phenomenon is the same as that recorded in 2017, but there are some differences.
- In the last event of this type, the Moon was a little further away from Earth, so the range where the phenomenon could be observed in its entirety varied from 100 to 115 kilometers wide.
- In what happens in April, this range will vary from 170 to 200 kilometers.
- This year’s Total Solar Eclipse will be visible in cities and more densely populated areas, allowing 31.6 million people to watch the phenomenon, compared to 12 million in 2017.
- In the 2017 eclipse, the longest period of totality occurred near Carbondale, Illinois and lasted 2 minutes and 42 seconds.
- In 2024, it will be longest near Torreón, Mexico, lasting about 4 minutes and 26 seconds.
- Durations longer than 4 minutes, however, will also occur up to close to the Canadian border, when the eclipse will last 3 minutes and 21 seconds.
- Another difference is that the year 2024 is closer to solar maximum, where the star’s activity is greatest.
- Therefore, when the Moon covers the Sun, it is very likely that fire snakes will appear in the stellar corona, unlike the simpler appearance in 2017.
