Eclipse viewing is a vicarious affair
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Mike Creger
Katherine Nistler talked about the solar eclipse with her eighth-grade students at Cloquet Middle School. It was too cloudy to see anything over Cloquet Monday but Nistler handed out eclipse-viewing glasses for the students to try on. Some went to her lighted model of the earth, moon and sun, including, left to right, Kai Huhta, Ollie Unger, Bryson Barnes, and Owen Sylvester.
It wasn't just your run-of-the-mill cloud cover that kept Carlton County residents inside looking at the eclipse online on Monday. It was what writers call a leaden sky, oozing rain all day. A real soaker, with a deck of bruise-colored clouds blotting out any semblance of a sun, let alone one that was diminished by just over 70 percent as the moon moved over its path.
It was dark all day, but perceptibly darker around 2 p.m., when the partial eclipse reached its peak. Or maybe it was just another deep rain band clipping through.
Minnesota, and particularly the northeast, basically had the crum...
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