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Severe Weather Discussion => General Weather - all topics not current severe weather. => Topic started by: australiasevereweather on 24 July 2009, 08:03:13 AM
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Solar eclipse photos from Hangzhou, China
(http://www.tornadovideos.net/images/stories/2009/july/07.22.09.3rdcontact.klipsi.png)
Extreme Tornado Tours guide Olivier Staiger, AKA "Klipsi," travelled to Shanghai, China last week to prepare to document the total solar eclipse today (July 22). Klipsi says that a few days ago the forecast was very bad for Shanghai, so he decided to blast southwest, ending up in Hangzhou, which is a few hours drive from Shanghai. On the morning of eclipse day, the sky was overcast but it cleared for his location and he was able to get a good view except for smog and haze.
This was Klipsi's<strong> 25th</strong> solar eclipse, and his <strong>12th TOTAL solar eclipse! Klipsi says, "To see a total solar eclipse in the USA we have to wait till 2017.