In the after-glow of Monday's eclipse, we can start looking forward to an even more exciting event for the Midwest and Great Lakes region: the 2024 total solar eclipse.
On April 8, 2024, an eclipse will move diagonally across North America, coming up from Mexico and moving out to sea in Newfoundland.
That southwest-to-northeast sweep will bring a total eclipse to virtually all of Lake Erie and Lake Ontario, with cities like Cleveland, Toledo and Akron smack in the middle of the path of totality.
If you can't drive north that day, Columbus will see a whopping 99.88 percent of the eclipse, far better than in 2017, when it saw about 86 percent.
Weather permitting, the 2024 eclipse promises to be even better than this year's.
Timeanddate reports that the 2024 eclipse will begin in Columbus at 1:55 p.m., hitting its maximum point at 3:12 and lasting about two and a half minutes.
For Monday's eclipse, the duration of totality lasted from 20 seconds over Kansas City, Kan., to 2:40 over Carbondale, Ill., the Mother Nature Network notes. The 2024 eclipse will average nearly 4:00 along the path of totality.
