# USA TSE, total solar eclipse: April 2024 (was "three years away for USA" when started)

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> [@I just learned about the annular solar eclipse of October 14, 2023, which will be passing right over my house](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-learned-about-the-annular-solar-eclipse-of-october-14-2023-which-will-be-passing-right-over-my-house/962945/165):
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> > [@I just learned about the annular solar eclipse of October 14, 2023, which will be passing right over my house](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-learned-about-the-annular-solar-eclipse-of-october-14-2023-which-will-be-passing-right-over-my-house/962945/160):
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> > Not that it matters to me of course. If I’m around the observing site it’ll be cloudy or rainy, obviously.
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> I thought of you when I read the front page of Wikipedia. There’s an eclipse item in the « Did you know? » section today:
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> > - … that scientists traveled thousands of miles to observe the **[solar eclipse of September 10, 1923](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_eclipse_of_September_10,_1923)**, from Santa Catalina Island, but saw only clouds?

Think of me next April 8 when I’ll be seeing the same. Technically, the chance of the eclipse being obscured by clouds is around 50% at that time of year, but since this is the first time in my life that a total eclipse will occur right where I live, and I’ve been anticipating it for more than two years, we can safely conclude that the chances that it will be obscured by clouds is more like 99.99%.

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