CONWAY — For close to an hour, the roads were quiet. Then the streetlights snapped on. And crows began to caw. Then gradually, the light got less flat, and soon the world as we know it returned. We had weathered the eclipse. And the weather gods smiled on us Monday by giving the region clear skies for the much-anticipated solar eclipse. Which is good, because the Granite State won’t be in the direct path of a solar eclipse again until 2079.
As most everyone knows by now, a solar eclipse occurs when the moon passes between the Earth and the sun, blocking our view of the sun as it passes. It’s called a total solar eclipse when the moon completely blocks the light of the sun. These events are rare, and luckily, northern New England was in the path of totality this time.
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