It took 1 hour 22 minutes from the beginning of the eclipse to the maximum and a little more than that time from maximum until it ended. I would not call that suddenly. And we don’t know if there were no clouds.
I experienced almost this exact thing last year, it’s something that could fairly easily be missed.
I mean, you can see the moon in the sky during the day time… Especially if the air is clear, and I’m pretty sure they didn’t have smog back then.
It’s always hilarious when people pretend an eclipse comes out of nowhere and they totally wouldn’t see the cause, whether or not they understood it fully.
90% obscurance will make the sky darker, especially if it was a cloudy day.
90% of the sun obscured is still quite bright, not something I would describe as darkness.
If it’s the middle of the day and it suddenly gets very noticably darker with no cloud near the sun, 2000 year old desert people will shit their pants
It took 1 hour 22 minutes from the beginning of the eclipse to the maximum and a little more than that time from maximum until it ended. I would not call that suddenly. And we don’t know if there were no clouds.
I experienced almost this exact thing last year, it’s something that could fairly easily be missed.
I mean, you can see the moon in the sky during the day time… Especially if the air is clear, and I’m pretty sure they didn’t have smog back then.
It’s always hilarious when people pretend an eclipse comes out of nowhere and they totally wouldn’t see the cause, whether or not they understood it fully.