Solar eclipse leaves Bay Area in awe. And also disappointed.

The annular eclipse becomes viewable briefly through the clouds during a viewing event, Saturday, Oct. 14, 2023, on the intramural fields at Stanford University. Discouraged by gloom, thousands of Bay Area residents gathered in parties on early Saturday morning to gaze up at overcast skies.From San Jose to Danville and San Rafael, cheers erupted when skies brightened, then dimmed, as the moon crept across the surface of the sun, shrinking it to a mere crescent.

“I see it!” shouted children at a festive Palo Alto event sponsored by Stanford’s Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology, holding protective glasses to their faces. Lesley and Lyric Dawson, left and center, and Iyanis Ludwig use their special glasses to view the eclipse during a viewing event, Saturday, Oct. 14, 2023, at Stanford University. For the most of the “annular eclipse,” the weather was a tease, cooperating only intermittently along much of its Bay Area path. The clouds opened up to allow a quick peak, then closed again.“It was overcast, as usual.

Eugene, one of the the first cities on the narrow swath of “totality,” was cloudy. So was Ukiah. Instead of sun-gazing, crowds celebrated Pumpkinfest with sweet potato pies and local Low Gap Bourbon.Leaving the U.S., it crossed the Gulf of Mexico into Central America, where skies were clear. Along the crowded beaches of Costa Rica’s south Caribbean, under the direct path of the eclipse, former Mercury News editor Karl Kahler said “at first you could see the moon putting a little dent in the upper right side of the sun. Soon it looked like a crescent moon. By 12:03 p.m., the coverage was almost total, with just the ‘ring of fire’ visible around the moon.

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