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4:45 AM on Apr 8, 2024 CDT — Updated at 4:10 PM on Apr 8, 2024 CDT
Editor’s note: This story is part of The Dallas Morning News’ coverage of the 2024 total solar eclipse. For more, visit dallasnews.com/eclipse.
A total solar eclipse cut across Texas Monday, turning day to dusk over a large swath of the state.
This is a historic day for Dallas, which was last in an eclipse’s path of totality in 1878, and won’t be again for nearly 300 years. While the eclipse generated much excitement, it also caused worries of gridlock traffic and fuel shortages and a laser-like focus on the weather forecast.
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Reporters and photojournalists with The Dallas Morning News are stationed across Texas, at parks, museums, places of worship, dive bars and even in the sky, via Southwest Airlines. We’re tracking the eclipse as it sweeps across the state and will provide updates throughout the day and evening.
The sun is reappearing from behind the moon as the total solar eclipse leaves North America. There won’t be another coast-to-coast spectacle on the continent until 2045.
- The Associated Press
After viewing the eclipse from Exall Park, brothers Chris and David Divine and David’s partner, Ace McCasland, had iced coffees at Merit Coffee in Deep Ellum.
The trio became “eclipse junkies” after viewing the 2017 solar eclipse in Wyoming. They started planning the trip to Dallas several years ago and said it was worth it.
”Just kind of reminds you of your spot in the universe,” David, 54, said. “Seeing the moon going through just gives you a reminder that you are super, super small. But you’re part of it.”
McCasland, 54, said it was magical to see the way the colors of the sky changed.
“A couple of stars came out when the eclipse happened,” she said. “It’s just a reminder that the stars are still out there, even though we can’t see them.”
For Chris, 53, one of the coolest parts was how long it lasted.
“It was just like, wow,” he said. “It wasn’t just 60 seconds.”
They head back to their homes in Oregon and Colorado on Tuesday morning.
- Marcela Rodrigues
North America’s biggest eclipse audience ever — with a couple hundred million people living in or near the shadow’s path, plus scores of out-of-towners flocking in — witnessed the solar eclipse Monday.
The weather also cooperated at the last minute near Austin as well as Dallas.
”I will never unsee this,” said Ahmed Husseim of Austin, who had the eclipse on his calendar for a year. Husseim and his family were among hundreds who gathered on the lawn of Southwestern University in Georgetown, with blankets, lawn chairs and country music.
- The Associated Press
After the eclipse, Pam Koester, 60, and Laura Hartgroves, 56, of Phoenix, said they thought the experience was “both eerie and emotional.”
”But in a good way,” Koester added.
Koester and Hartgroves were stationed at the Main Street Garden, where the vibe was a festival atmosphere with families, couples and groups of friends sprawled out on blankets and in lawn chairs.
During totality, people took off their protective glasses and cheered on the moon’s last bit of cover. The crowd then cheered again for the sun when it started to peak back out.
“I didn’t expect to be so inspired and impressed,” said Nan Poopat, 49, of Los Angeles. “Our friends kept telling us to go. We saw pictures before, but this was nothing like the photos.”
”It was great to be able to take off the glasses and see the ring,” said her husband Natee Poopat.
Most people said they planned their trip well in advance and had no problems flying or driving into Dallas.
- Maria Halkias
Hundreds gathered in downtown Mesquite cheered and whistled as the clouds parted in the final minutes before totality.
As the sun finally became cloaked, the crowd grew louder, whipping off their eclipse glasses to soak in the unforgettable view of the sun’s corona, or spiky outer atmosphere, and Venus shining brilliantly off to the right.
City officials reminded everyone that the last total solar eclipse in these parts was the 1870s, making this one all the more special. Eclipse-themed music was turned off as the big moment approached.
”Oh God, it’s so dark,” marveled Aiyana Brown, 14, who watched alongside her grandfather, Mesquite Mayor Daniel Aleman Jr. “I’m a huge science nerd, and this is amazing.”
- The Associated Press
Ever since watching the moon landing as a teenager, Clay Duos has been fascinated by what’s above us.
With the path of totality four and a half hours from his house in Eunice, Louisiana, and a place to stay with his sibling in Shreveport, Duos rounded up his family to see the sun obscured by the moon.
”I’m 69 years old,” Duos said. “I’ll never get another chance to see the eclipse.”
Cutting the dark lenses of solar eclipse glasses to fit his camera, Duos tried to rig a film to capture the waning sun at a picnic table at the outdoor pavilion in the heart of New Boston, an East Texas city of 4,500.
“I hope I don’t go blind,” he joked as he tried to tape two lenses together.
In their cooler, they had Moon Pies, Milky Ways and a full bag of Sun Chips.
Duos didn’t get the camera to work, there was too much light seeping in. He took a couple of photos on his iPhone as the sky returned from darkness to light. He figures he’ll be able to find good photos online, but the pictures don’t matter at the end of the day. He saw it with his own eyes, beside his family in a row of camping chairs.
”It was just beautiful,” Duos said.
- Arcelia Martin
At the peak of totality, claps and a screech of “that is so cool” pierced the silence at Reunion Tower. A few “wows” and cheers accompanied the following four minutes of darkness.
Jacci Doss kept her three sons — 12-year-old Ezra, 8-year-old Ezekiel and 6-year-old Hezekiah — out of school Monday so they could witness those four minutes as a family.
”I thought it was really peaceful, she said.
What did Hezekiah think about totality?
“Everything,” he said.
- Nicholas Wooten
Emergency lights clicked on outside D.A. Hulcy Middle School as the last sliver of the sun disappeared. Students cheered and whooped, sitting on towels and picnic blankets in an adjacent parking lot.
”I’m a new person,” eighth grader Nia Modkins said.
Students and teachers took off their eclipse glasses and pointed at the sky, taking pictures and videos. Once three minutes elapsed, their teachers told them to put their eclipse glasses back on as the sun prepared for its return act.
Once daylight swept over the parking lot again, eighth grader Sky Johnson swiped through her phone, looking for the video she’d taken during totality.
”Two minutes of me screaming, literally,” she said.
- The Associated Press
Fulfillment of a bucket-list item brought Steve and Kitty Rudometkin to North Texas to visit Cam Cunningham and Thomas Johnson. Steve had always wanted to see an eclipse, with some of his other goals including seeing the Northern Lights and a World Series game.
The Rudometkins arrived from California last week to spend time with their friends, who live in Arlington.
The acreage at the arboretum stilled for a few moments as totality ensued. Then cheers began to bubble up from across the grounds, and the four friends exchanged their astonishment, some with audible “aahs,” while situated on a quieter stretch of pathway facing Garland Road, yards from the populated lawns.
Johnson shared when it was safe to remove eclipse glasses, and they passed around a pair of binoculars.
”When you get to be in your 70s and realize the next one won’t be for another 20 years, you realize the time is now,” said Kitty.
- Anna Butler
Totality came and went at the Buc-ee’s in Temple with some tension. More than 200 people flocked to the pitstop along Interstate 35, setting up picnic blankets and camping chairs on the grassy areas that lined the gas station’s gargantuan parking lot.
As totality neared, the clouds parted and revealed bands of blue sky. One woman counted down the minutes with at cellphone timer set for when totality would begin. As she announced that two minutes remained until full moon cover, low flying dark clouds blocked visibility. People took off their eclipse glasses amid worried groans as they tried to catch the sliver of the sun as the sky darkened.
Then, less than a minute before totality began, the clouds around the sun cleared to cheers and the sky darkened. People quietly marveled at the orange horizon clearly visible from all sides of the flat, field-lined Buc-ee’s about 125 miles south of downtown Dallas.
A few bright celestial spots peaked through while the temperature dipped and the corona became visible. Scientists said planets, including Jupiter, Venus, Saturn and Mars, could be seen during the eclipse.
”It just makes me remember there is so much going on out there,” said Kelsey Appleton, an Atlanta resident there with her parents Bob and Margaret Appleton from College Station. “I’m just a part of it.”
”I just felt like this might be the only chance in my life to see one,” Bob Appleton said. “I’m grateful.”
Within 30 minutes, the vast majority of spectators of the cosmic event had left, leaving to clear traffic.
- Phil Jankowski
In seconds, day faded to night. The breeze chilled. Cawing grackles quieted. Families gathered on the grass at Bachman Lake hollered and cheered for the experience of a lifetime.
A thick line of grey clouds that covered spectators’ view for several minutes of totality parted slightly, revealing for the first time a clear sight. A spark of light curved around the moon’s shape.
“Wow,” said 10-year-old Adithi Sitaraman, who watched the spectacle with her family. “It looks like a stroke of a pencil.”
Bharath Sitaraman, Adithi’s mother, grinned toward the sky and lowered her eclipse-viewing glasses as the moon covered sun.
Under the eclipse’s darkness, Bharath, her husband and three children stood up from their blanket and marveled, giggling and shouting.
”It looks like midnight,” 7-year-old Abhiram shouted. “I can’t see anything. It’s so dark on this planet.”
- Leah Waters
The crowd gathered at the Dallas Zoo erupted into cheers as totality darkened the sky.
At the Gregg Hudson Giants of the Savannah area, Brittany LaCour, who works at the Dallas Zoo, told the crowd about the animals’ reactions to the eclipse as zoologists reported it through their radios.
Gorillas and giraffes moved toward the doors that lead to their indoor habitats. All birds headed to their evening roost, where they rest for the night, and grew quiet. Zebras and ostriches huddled together among their own species. Okapi seemed to look up at the sun during totality.
- Valeria Olivares
What did Dallas experience during totality? Stars. Animal noises. A drop in temperature. That’s according to Ashley Greeley, a research scientist in the heliophysics laboratory at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland.
Greeley has been in Dallas since Friday, using her expertise to aid in the everyday person’s understanding of the eclipse and eclipse-related safety, among other outreach activities.
”Everybody wants to take in a moment like this and be altogether,” she said. “Whether you’re a scientist or a citizen, it’s something that unites people.”
This was the first eclipse for Casey Swails, NASA’s deputy associate administrator based in Houston.
”This is the fun part of the job – being here, seeing everyone excited about NASA’s mission and seeing the next generation excited about science,” Swails said. “I had a little boy come up to me, whose dad is an ophthalmologist, and he knew everything about the eclipse. He was talking about the corona and explaining it to his grandfather in front of me. It was really special.”
- Anna Butler
Childhood friends Nathan Schemel, 46, and Roland Cao, 45, flew in from California with their families and camera gear hoping to capture the perfect photo of the eclipse.
Schemel, a photography hobbyist, calls it the wedding ring shot. In a cloudless sky, a ring glows in darkness and the kiss of light peaks from the sun’s rays, forming a burst as the eclipse opens and closes.
As the moon moves across the sun, he hopes his long, telephoto lens and special UV filter system work better than his last eclipse experience.
Schemel and Cao drove 10 hours to Oregon for an eclipse sighting five years ago. That time, the friends bought fancy screw-on filters for their cameras, which were too hard to remove during the darkness of totality.
For the Dallas eclipse-viewing trip, the photographers created their own homemade UV filters out of cardboard so they could easily remove them when totality begins.
”When the sun fully eclipses, you got to pull all the filters off because we can look at the sun with the naked eye,” Schemel said.
- Leah Waters
Illinois media outlets are reporting that some solar eclipse glasses bought on Amazon.com have been recalled due to a “potential safety concern.”
According to Chicago CBS TV station, Amazon sent an email notifying customers that there may be issues with items sold as “Biniki Solar Eclipse Glasses AAS Approved 2024 – CE & ISO Certified Safe Shades for Direct Sun Viewing (6 Packs)” and that they were being recalled.
The glasses were also sold through several retailers in Illinois as well, the station reported.
Functioning solar eclipse glasses block out UV rays and nearly all visible light. Viewers shouldn’t be able to see anything except for a bright light source such as the sun or halogen light bulb. If you put on an old pair of eclipse glasses and see light filtering through a window, that’s a sign they should be replaced.
- Staff reports
Cloud cover didn’t deter crowds from venturing to Dallas’ “town square” for the total solar eclipse.
“We really want to have created a town square for Dallas, and so that’s why we’re having this event today,” Klyde Warren Park President and CEO Kit Sawers said as a band blasted their rendition of Aerosmith’s “Sweet Emotion” on stage behind her.
The park was packed, with thousands lounging on the grass, learning from Perot Museum programming, dancing to music and playing yard games.
”When there’s something big like this and the city wants to gather, we want to make sure we’re a part of it,” Sawers said.
Klyde Warren partnered with the Perot museum to provide the park with 35,000 pairs of eclipse glasses, astronomers from Carnegie Science and programming from the museum itself. The park hired a band and put it all together, with help through donations from Choctaw Casinos.
”There’s a lot of out-of-town guests. These hotels surrounding Klyde Warren Park have been booked for months now,” Sawers said. “We’re prepared for 35,000.”
As Sawers spoke, the sun peaked through the clouds behind her.
”People, a lot of times, think of Dallas as buildings and business, so it’s fun to do something that has to do with nature in a city like Dallas,” Sawers said.
- William Kavy
Avis Buchanan and Kenneth Nunn came to Dallas from Washington, D.C., and picked the grassy knoll to watch the eclipse.
”I was thinking that I’m 66 years old, and I didn’t know whether I’d get a chance to see this again in my lifetime,” Nunn said.
Nunn said he has always been interested in celestial events, including eclipses, equinoxes and solstices. Buchanan said she’s here for the collective experience of the eclipse.
”It’s more than just seeing it, it’s feeling it,” she said. “And just knowing that you there and having that to remember for the rest of your life.”
- Marcela Rodrigues
As the moon began its traversal in front of the sun, heads turned skyward at the Buc-ee’s in northern Temple. There, the wide multi-acre parking lot had steadily filled over the past hour.
Several have been here since the morning, staking out prime spots on the northern edge of the pitstop’s lot where they set up camping chairs, picnic blankets and cameras aimed at the sun.
Among them was Tim Murphy, 74, of Houston and his two daughters Shannon Murphy, 41, and Heather Robinson, 43. Murphy had his 1976 Nikon F2 perched on a tripod and was tinkering with the settings as the eclipse began.
”I want to get the chromosphere — all those fiery lights,” Tim Murphy said.
So why pick Buc-ee’s for a once-in-a-lifetime celestial event?
”After we scouted the area, we went off our checklist: Gas, food, clean bathrooms,” Shannon Murphy said. “That’s Buc-ee’s.”
A few cars over, Lucy Valedez crocheted a temperature blanket with stripes of sky blue, lilac, sunflower yellow and light green in her camping chair. Lucy and her husband José Valedez traveled from Bryan Monday morning.
“We figured if we’re going to travel, we’d go somewhere that had parking,” José Valedez said.
From Vashon Island, Wash., the Lockes sat by their rental car waiting for the event to being.
”I promise they haven’t been on screens all day,” said Joe Locke, 36, sitting on a picnic blanket and gesturing to his daughter Galaxy, 9, who lied in front of him in headphones and his son Sky, 13, who scrolled away while sitting in their car’s hatchback.
They were enjoying the fruits of their decision to make Buc-ee’s their spot to view the eclipse — ghost pepper jerky, ICEEs and more.
The Lockes had a near-miss with totality in 2017, when a band of the country that stretched from Washington State to South Carolina experienced a total eclipse. They stayed home, where they were treated 97% totality.
”It was amazing but everyone that came back from seeing the total eclipse made me feel like an idiot,” Joe Locke said. ”So we made a longer trip this time,” Elisa Locke, Joe’s wife added.
- Phil Jankowski
A group of eighth graders at Dallas ISD’s Jesús Moroles Expressive Arts Vanguard gazed up at the sky just after 12:45 p.m. Each of them sported solar glasses donated to the school district by the Perot Museum of Nature and Science.
”I’m gonna cry if these clouds don’t move,” 13-year-old Denise Reyes said.
Moments later, the sky listened. “Eeeeee!” Denise screamed as the clouds parted and revealed the moon beginning to cover the sun.
”It looks like Pac-Man,” said her friend, Brooklyn Bruff.
Brooklyn and Denise agree: They’re the perfect age to get to experience this total solar eclipse. The little kids at their school may not remember this moment decades from now. But they know that they will.
”We can tell our kids,” Denise said.
- Talia Richman
As partiality began, Donnie, a 5-year-old Pit Bull, found shade under trees near Reunion Tower with his owners, Mark Ebanks and Autumn Flowers.
The trio made the 14-hour drive from Jacksonville, Florida, yesterday, arriving in Dallas just after 2 a.m. The trip was spontaneous. Ebanks didn’t know about the eclipse until Flowers, a self-described space nerd, told him about it last week.
They were among a growing crowd of onlookers who arrived at Reunion Tower around lunchtime. Some left nearby office builds for funnel cake, corn dogs and Chick-fil-A.
The couple plans to drive back to Florida once totality ends. They haven’t thought much about the traffic they may run into, but they may stop in Louisiana in hopes of finding crawfish.
”It was like spur of the moment, all her idea,” Ebanks said.
- Nicholas Wooten
About 12:20 p.m., Dinosaur Valley State Park visitors cheered as a large cloud subsided just in time for the start of the eclipse.
Among them, Frank and Andrea Jablonski, their son Fynn and his girlfriend Lorette Genot, who traveled to Texas from Germany.
”We found the park event just by fortune,” Frank Jablonski said.
Frank and Andrea saw a total solar eclipse in Germany in 1999.
”That was a lot easier,” Frank Jablonski said with a laugh. “But we thought it was so spectacular and impressive and we wanted to share it with our son, so we said, ‘Let’s go to Texas!’”
The family came prepared with matching T-shirts, eclipse glasses and a contraption normally placed to view the eclipse on telescopes, but they used it to take photos with their phones.
- Lana Ferguson
Andrés Torres is a 21-year-old from Bogotá, Colombia, who came all the way to Dallas by himself to witness the eclipse.
Torres, who studies astronomy at the Universidad Distrital Francisco José de Caldas, said seeing a total eclipse in person has always been his dream. He even brought a professional telescope with him, which he positioned in the Founders Plaza in downtown Dallas.
“It was a long trip. I went from Bogotá to Miami, and then from Miami to Austin,” he said. “[The eclipse] is already starting. I’m so excited.”
- Marcela Rodrigues
Steve Fano, a meteorologist for the National Weather Service in Fort Worth, said the agency expects “much of the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex” to have some visibility.
”What we were concerned with was the high cloudiness and the ability to see through it, but the high cloudiness, at least over the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex, is largely absent right now,” Fano said. “We’re really just dealing with the scattered to broken cumulus clouds, but I think as the eclipse gets deeper into totality you may lose some of those clouds.”
- Hojun Choi
Around lunchtime Monday, the East Plano Islamic Center was mostly empty. A tired-looking volunteer wearing a Dallas Cowboys hat, who was up until 6 a.m. celebrating Ramadan, chatted with a security guard in the empty foyer.
In just one hour, more than 1,000 people were set to arrive at the mosque, one of the largest in North Texas.
Today’s eclipse falls during the holy month of Ramadan, a time of prayer and fasting for millions of Muslims worldwide. Ramadan ends Tuesday.
Afreen Syed, 46, said she only got four hours of sleep after a Ramadan celebration and that her husband has slept at the mosque for the past several nights to mark the end of the month.
Syed said her family is exhausted but excited to watch its first total solar eclipse.
- Joy Ashford
The main attraction at Niagara Falls is typically the more than 750,000 gallons of water that rush over the brink every second. On Monday, it was the eclipse.
Tourists streamed into Niagara Falls State Park with wagons, strollers, coolers and chairs. Photographers’ tripods lined a railing under cloudy skies.
In Niagara Falls, Synthia Nguyen and Jen Cerna of Washington, D.C., claimed a prime lawn spot next to the rapids at 6 a.m. They were excited that totality would last a few minutes, long enough for it to sink in. The pair work in an ophthalmology office.
“We’re expecting a lot of calls tomorrow,” Cerna said.
People should NOT look at the partial eclipse without certified eclipse glasses. The intense light from the sun can damage eyes in a matter of seconds. It’s only safe to look at the eclipse without eclipse glasses during totality. Time to find glasses is fading. Home Depot, Lowe’s and Walmart are all reliable places to buy glasses in person. Warby Parker is giving away free, ISO-certified solar eclipse glasses at all of its stores, while supplies last. The Dallas Public Library and many others are also distributing glasses.
- Staff and wire reports
Those who traveled from across the globe Monday set out folding chairs and picnic baskets along the grassy banks of Bachman Lake to claim spots about an hour before the eclipse. Families lying on blankets squinted as the sun’s warm rays passed through patches of white, fluffy clouds that covered the sky for most of the morning.
With each hour that passes, Daniel Schlarmann is feeling more optimistic about an unobstructed view.
Schlarmann, 35, traveled from Germany with a mirrorless camera and zoom lens to practice his new photography hobby on the celestial phenomena. He’s been scouting weather reports for days and has high hopes the clouds will clear long enough this afternoon to snap a few shots.
“I want to see how the moon goes in front of the sun because it’s really special,” Schlarmann said.
Melissa Gaona, 52, is curious how her chihuahua Ugly will react to the moments of eerie darkness when the moon takes its place in the sky. The Arlington resident’s yellow blanket is saving space in the grass for her family to join her later to witness the event. She wants her grandkids by her side so she can watch them experience the moment together.
”It’s not always that they get to see something so beautiful, something so different and spend time with the family,” Gaona said.
- Leah Waters
Mark and Sharon Nash, 61 and 63 of Southlake, read online about Southwest Airlines’ eclipse flights and booked theirs right away. They don’t typically travel out of Dallas Love Field since their home is closer to DFW International Airport, so they usually fly on American Airlines.
At about $415 a ticket, the couple hopes for a fun experience, something neat they’ve never done before. They’re also making a trip out of it by visiting a friend in Pittsburgh.
”It just makes it memorable,” Sharon said.
- Alexandra Skores
At the only Starbucks in Eagle Pass, Peter Gruber and Laura Beck sat at a table and analyzed the cloud coverage on an iPad. Gruber, 65, majored in astrophysics at Western Sydney University in Australia.
Gruber’s motto: “Chasing the sun.” His goal? Watch the sun block out the moon.
His first two opportunities to see totality – the Caribbean in 1998 and Germany in 2001 – were ruined because of cloud coverage. The Germany one was so bad, it was raining.
He hoped this time would be different. He and Beck spent about $8,000 and two days traveling to Texas because in researching long-term weather patterns, he noticed that south Texas offered the best chance for clear skies. They flew 11 hours from Munich to Houston, then drove down to Eagle Pass.
”It’s one of the most spectacular experiences one can have,” Gruber said.
As he spoke, he looked at an app called “Windy” on his iPad that showed what cloud coverage in the coming hours. At 10 a.m., there was 100% cloud blockage, an hour later it would be at 80%. And at 2 p.m., it would be below 50%.
”You get the impression it’s kind of improving, but you never know how it turns out,” Gruber said.
- Aaron Torres
Carrie Eve Knoll flew into Dallas from southern California on Sunday ahead of the eclipse. As a self-proclaimed amateur photographer, she thought the Dallas Zoo would make a great location to snap some shots of birds and, if the sky clears up, the celestial phenomenon.
Before heading out for the day, Knoll made sure to check the weather, pack a poncho in case it rains and read up on how to photograph an eclipse. Knoll is also hoping to photograph people while they observe the animals or react to totality.
”It’s all good from a photographer’s point of view,” she said. “Even if the clouds don’t part, it’s still all amazing.”
- Valeria Olivares
A panel of astronomers from Carnegie Science Observatories finished a practice session on Klyde Warren Park’s stage about 10 a.m. while hundreds of already present park visitors listened in. Carnegie Science partnered with the Perot Museum to educate and excite Dallas schools and the public in preparation for the eclipse.
”We wanted to do outreach, get people exited and ready for the eclipse, and Dallas is the biggest metropolitan area in the path of totality,” Dr. Peter Senchyna said behind the stage. “It was looking like a pretty promising place to view it as well, but we’ll see.”
All last week, the scientists visited DISD schools to teach students the science behind this once-in-a-lifetime event. The partnership also sought to provide eclipse glasses to every DISD student.
“I’ve been in classrooms all week, volunteering at the Perot, answering questions from folks,” Senchyna said. “Just trying to get folks an idea of what this actually is, how to view it safely.”
The post-doctoral fellow is excited for a total eclipse experience despite the day’s cloudy conditions.
”It’s worth keeping in mind that the eclipse is cooling, too,” Senchyna said.
That cooling will be felt, along with dusk-like darkness, despite the clouds in the sky, and it will likely cause the area’s animals to sit still and quiet for the duration of totality. Senchyna said it can also influence the weather, but cautioned that he is an astronomer, not a meteorologist.
“That cooling can actually change the weather, and it can change it in such a way that clouds will dissipate right around the eclipse,” Senchyna said.
- William Kavy
From Topeka, Kansas, Russ and Becky Lantz already had to come to Dallas for a medical appointment this week, but the timing couldn’t have been more perfect for the couple to experience this year’s eclipse.
About 10:30 a.m., the two were having tacos for breakfast at the farmer’s market in downtown Dallas, getting ready for the big event.
Becky, 72, loves everything about the weather and the sky. Russ, 59, said he’s along for the ride. The couple has seen a partial eclipse before, but this will be their first time experiencing totality.
“When it starts to occur, it’s like nothing else you’ve ever experienced. I have chills just talking about it,” Becky said. “And beyond words, you know that we are not all that there is. We believe in God, the Creator, anyway, but during that time, oh my goodness, you feel his power.”
- Marcela Rodrigues
The moon has begun to inch across the sun in the South Pacific in a partial eclipse. Mexico’s Pacific coast will be the first spot in North America to hit totality at about 1 p.m. Dallas time.
Millions along a narrow corridor in North America from Mexico’s Pacific coast to eastern Canada hope for clouds to clear as they eagerly wait for totality to reach their location.
The partial eclipse will begin in Dallas around 12:23 p.m., with totality beginning around 1:40 p.m. and ending around 4 minutes later.
The moon will then move away from the sun, with the spectacle ending around 3:02 p.m. Exact timing will depend your location in the Dallas-Fort Worth area.
- Staff and wire reports
Louise Folayan, 76, and Betty Pride, 72, were the first to arrive and set up chairs in the parking lot of Kiest Park in anticipation of the eclipse.
The two crossing guards had a coffee and sandwich from McDonalds prior to coming to the park and were expecting their neighbors and friends to show up closer to noon. Folayan said she had been hearing about the eclipse all through the week on the radio and on Facebook, and couldn’t recall the last time a celestial event had come so close to home.
”Given my age, I might not see the next one, so I was gonna make this one,” Folayan said.
A few paces away, seniors from the Kiest Park Recreation Center had set up two tables to play Rummikub, a tile-based game that blended elements from other games like Rummy and Mahjong. Some got up to dance to music playing out of speakers.
“It’s a mind game,” Pat McGilbra, one of the players, said.
Each player had a stack of tiles in front of them as they contemplated their next move. Members of the city’s Active Senior Adult Programs, the seniors meet every day at the recreation center to play. Monday, they decided to take it outdoors to take part in the action.
- Devyani Chhetri
At the Buc-ee’s along Interstate 35 in Temple, the 124-pump mega-pit stop hummed with activity Monday morning. At the center of it was Buc-ee’s pitmaster Randy Pauly.
Dressed in a cowboy hat, Wrangler jeans and a red and blue Buc-ee’s branded shirt stitched with his name, Pauly handed out solar eclipse glasses to employees.
Monday is an all-hands-on-deck situation for Buc-ee’s, Pauly said, akin to the busiest travel days as people fan out across the area of totality chasing clear skies. The sun was peaking through high atmosphere clouds in Temple, providing an aura of optimism.
“It’s Super Bowl weekend for us,” Pauly said.
For out-of-state visitors, the occasion was allowing Buc-ee’s to serve as an unofficial ambassador of Texas, Pauly said.
“We’re going to show them a little bit of Texas,” Pauly said.
He jumped in with perhaps the most visible staffer at Buc-Ee’s to pose for a photograph with this location’s chief of cutting meat, Ginette Cortes, both donning solar eclipse glasses before she carved up a smoked brisket.
Pauly said he expects this location to go through at least 100 briskets Monday, topping about 1,000 pounds of smoked beef rolled up into breakfast tacos and other fare.
”It’s pretty wild,” said Craig Kleine of the enormous gas station. Kleine, a Tucson, Arizona, resident was headed about 90 miles north to Cleburne to view the eclipse.
- Phil Jankowski
Aaron Steele, 40, flew from Tucson, Arizona to see the eclipse.
At 10:30 a.m. he drank a Dr. Pepper Icee outside of a Royse City Buc-ee’s for breakfast. While Steele had plans of being in Dallas for the eclipse, a friend invited him to his house in Sulphur Springs, where the likelihood of viability is improved.
He and his two friends were able to snag a deal on a rental car in October, for $113, hundreds less than the going rate days ahead of the eclipse.
- Arcelia Martin
There were more reporters than eclipse watchers Monday morning on the lawn in front of Reunion Tower.
Danielle Fischetti and Daniel Imperato of Long Island, New York, were the first to claim their spot in the grass around 8:30 a.m. The couple wanted to be in the path of totality for the eclipse, and said they had had two choices: Texas or Buffalo. They bought their flight to Dallas in December. Fischetti said they didn’t want to chance it with Buffalo weather.
”I’ve known it to snow in Buffalo, so I said we’ll go down to Dallas,” Fischetti said.
Fischetti and Imperato landed on Friday, spent Saturday at the Six Flags amusement park and Sunday in Grapevine.
”I’m a nerd, and I wanted to go see the Warhammer store,” Imperato said.
Their flight leaves Tuesday morning, and they plan to visit Reunion Tower’s observation deck after the eclipse. Fischetti is frustrated by Monday’s cloudy conditions in D-FW while Imperato is more optimistic.
”It’ll work out,” he said. “And if it doesn’t work out, you still had a fun time.”
- Nicholas Wooten
It was a quiet morning on the Ronald Kirk Bridge in West Dallas as residents jogged and walked their dogs. Meanwhile, those who came from out of town to chase the eclipse set up cameras and tripods to capture the moment of the year.
Christine Ho, 48, traveled from Long Beach, California, to watch the total solar eclipse from Dallas. She came to the same spot on Sunday to test her equipment and choose, as she said, the perfect location to capture the historic event.
”They are rare occurrences and part of history, but they rarely occur. So I choose here because it is cheaper to do it domestically than going overseas to catch it,” said Ho, who spent around $2,000 on her trip to Dallas.
Next to her, David Sim, 40, of Carrollton, set up tripods, digital cameras, Go Pros and a telescope.
Sim, who has been interested in eclipses since elementary school, said he shares his passion with his 11-year-old daughter. The pair traveled to San Antonio last year to see the annular eclipse.
Sim said he also plans to try an experiment. He created a handmade Campbell-Stokes recorder, a type of sunshine recorder invented in 1853. The unit is designed to record the amount of sunshine in a given day, which will burn a hole through a photsensitive card.
”I am hoping that the totality will be long enough that there will be a burning hole,” said Sim, who brought a six-pack of water bottles, pop tarts and sunflower seeds to get him through the wait.
- Maria Ramos Pacheco
Is the eclipse going to mess with all those satellites up in space? Nope, says John Gagosian director of the Joint Agency Satellite Division of NASA, and here’s why.
”Fortunately, satellites won’t be affected by the eclipse,” he said. “They’re designed to operate without solar power for a period of time.”
Most satellites aren’t going to be in the path of today’s eclipse anyway, he said. Satellites including the International Space Station take 90 minutes to orbit the Earth and it would be a “big coincidence if one passes at just the right point.”
“But they do encounter eclipses now and then and they just switch to battery from solar power,” said Gagosian, who is participating in a public program today at AT&T Discovery District.
- Maria Halkias
The moment J.L. Franklin saw a report about the 2017 solar eclipse, she knew she had to be at the next one. She immediately began planning, ordering 30 eclipse glasses a year in advance because she worried they would run out.
It soon turned into a sort of family reunion, with 24 of her nieces and nephews, along with some of their family and friends, tagging along to watch the eclipse at the Dallas Zoo.
“We’re zoo and aquarium people, all of us,” Franklin said. “My last time at the zoo was my senior skip day in 1972 … so we thought this would be the perfect place to see it.”
Some traveled all the way from Colorado and Florida. Others in Fort Worth, Gun Barrel City and Mansfield were able to drive in.
- Valeria Olivares
As of 10 a.m. Monday, Steve Fano, a meteorologist for the National Weather Service in Fort Worth, said the only part of Dallas-Fort Worth without dense, low clouds is northwest Tarrant County.
”The good news is it does look like, although the clouds are in place, now through the afternoon there will be some scattering of that low cloud deck. Some places will get enough breaks to have decent visibility.” Fano said.
Thinner, high clouds also moved into the region, but “they shouldn’t completely obscure eclipse viewing,” Fano added. For eclipse chasers, the best viewing is likely north of I-20, according to the weather service.
- Hojun Choi
Mike Barker, 45, often watches planes land at Love Field Airport while he works from the Starbucks near Bachman Lake. The Dallas native saw a little uptick in traffic this weekend for the tourists flooding his hometown for the eclipse
He’s not a fan that the rare celestial event has devolved into a tourist attraction instead of a special experience for each individual.
“It’s a moment of reflection and meditation for many people, but I think the masses are looking at it totally different,” Barker said.
Barker didn’t buy special eclipse-viewing glasses and said he isn’t planning on watching the event. Instead, he wants to focus on feeling through other senses.
“I think it’s an energy and if you really are into spirituality and you’re into meditation, I think that’s the way you really feel this event more than wearing a t shirt or glasses,” Barker said.
Ralph and Kim Haefner, who flew into Dallas from Minnesota, walked around Bachman Lake Monday morning to scope the best spot to view the moon pass in front of the sun.
“Millions of years from now as the moon keeps getting slightly farther and farther away from the Earth over time, it’ll be too small to cover the sun,” Ralph said. “It’s just this weird little coincidence that you can see this amazing spectacle.”
The Haefners booked a home through Vrbo last February, when hotel reservations were filling up fast. Ralph’s lifelong love of astronomy led him to a graduate degree in astrophysics. He’s an eclipse chaser hoping for clearer skies after clouds blocked the couple’s view of the 2017 solar eclipse from Missouri.
Though the Haefners couldn’t see the moon pass over the sun in 2017, the couple said the experience was still otherworldly. As the moon’s shadow slowly covered the Earth, temperatures dropped and the sky turned black as night.
“The animals just got quiet when it turned dark,” Kim said. “The birds stopped chirping. It was weird.”
- Leah Waters
The weather isn’t looking ideal for a large part of the eclipse’s path, including in Dallas, with the heaviest clouds expected in parts of Texas.
There are patches that may be clear. And meteorologists point out that the eclipse might still be visible if the clouds are high and thin. But clear skies are expected is northern New England through to Canada.
That area has “a pretty solid lock to be able to see the eclipse pretty crystal clear,” said National Weather Service meteorologist Cody Snell.
Sarah Laneau, of Westfield, Vermont, woke up at 4 a.m. Monday to bring her 16-year-old daughter to nearby Jay Peak ski resort in Jay, Vermont, to catch the eclipse from the top of the mountain after a morning on the slopes.
“This will be a first from me and an experience of a lifetime,” said Laneau, who was dressed in a purple metallic ski suit with a solar eclipse T-shirt underneath.
- The Associated Press
The heavy traffic predicted by the Texas Department of Transportation had not hit Dallas-area roads by 9 a.m. Monday, with commuters experiencing average road conditions.
Though the agency has warned the state could experience heavy traffic before, during and after the eclipse thanks to the predicted 1 million visitors, most congestion is expected after totality as drivers converge on highways to get home.
TxDOT is coordinating with local law enforcement agencies, many of which will have a heightened presence throughout Dallas-Fort Worth during eclipse events.
Severe storms, which could include large hail, are expected to hit North and Central Texas after the eclipse, and the National Weather Service warned those traveling to have a plan in place.
- Amber Gaudet
It was still quiet at Kiest Park, as staffers for council members Carolyn King Arnold and Zarin Gracey set up chairs and tables for a watch party.
David Vartanyan, an astronomer with Carnegie observatories in California, arrived to track the moon’s movement using an application. He is among 30 scientists who flew from Los Angeles to work with Dallas’ Perot Museum.
A few members from the city’s Code Compliance stood nearby as he held his mobile phone toward the sky to show where the eclipse will begin.
“Worst case scenario, even if it’s cloudy, even if there’s no relief from the clouds, not even a partial gap. You’ll still see it get a lot darker because the moon will now be covering a sun,” Vartanyan said. “I think we should be able to hear the turn of silence because animals think it’s nighttime or at least they’re confused, so they go quiet for a bit.”
Today Show host Al Roker is among the guests Monday at the Perot Museum. Roker spoke to students from the Lamplighter School and Uplift Atlas Preparatory while filming a segment at the museum.
- Devyani Chhetri
The first two who staked out a spot in Main Street Garden Monday morning around 7:45 a.m. are also first-time eclipse travelers.
Pam Koester, 60, of Phoenix came to Dallas for the event on the advice of her stepson who experienced the 2017 eclipse and told her, “Go. It’s the single most fabulous natural event you will see in your life.”
Koester and Laura Hartgroves, 56, also from Phoenix, flew into Love Field Friday and are staying downtown because they didn’t want to have to drive anywhere.
“I’ve never been to Dallas and I’ll be telling everyone to come. People are so nice and we walked everywhere,” said Hartgroves.
They’ve been to the Dallas Museum of Art, the JFK Museum, Dealey Plaza, the Holocaust Museum and the Dallas Aquarium. Koester started planning the trip a year ahead. She booked the Indigo Hotel and an Airbnb and was glad she did. The Airbnb canceled 10 days before they were scheduled to arrive.
“The only negative is the weather, but we’re hopeful,” Koester said. “We know a lot of people dumped Dallas and went to Indianapolis and Vermont.”
- Maria Halkias
Low clouds moved into Dallas just after 8 a.m., but the National Weather Service said coverage will be heaviest between 9 and 11 a.m. Clouds are expected to break up a little before the eclipse.
High, thin clouds, which would allow a glimpse of the eclipse, are forecasted for much of North Texas, although some unlucky areas will have dense, low clouds that limit viewing.
“There are some patches of dense high clouds moving in, but a good portion is still fairly thin,” the weather service said, adding that the best viewing will be north of I-20.
Severe storms are expected to hit after the eclipse, and the weather service warned those traveling to have a plan in place. Large hail is the primary threat, but tornadoes, damaging winds and flooding are also possible. A simulated radar shows storms moving into North Texas at 9 p.m. Strong to severe storms are also possible Tuesday.
A few minutes of totality could equal a big economic boom.
Downtown Dallas buzzed with excitement on Sunday, with packed sidewalks and traffic-jammed streets. Downtown Dallas Inc., said city officials estimated visitor traffic to jump 30% over the weekend.
In fact, today’s spectacle could generate nearly $700 million in total spending to the Dallas-Fort Worth area, with tourists expected to spend about $200 million, according to research from the Waco-based economic analysis firm The Perryman Group.
Texas businesses in the path of totality are looking at economic gains in the hundreds of millions of dollars. Statewide, the study predicts that tourists will spend $179.8 million in the restaurant industry, $280.6 million on retail and another $221.8 million on rental options such as hotels.
“When a wonder of the world is this easy to get to, people are more likely to travel,” said James Petrick, a professor at Texas A&M University who studies tourism. “And Dallas is very easy to get to.”
Dinosaur Valley State Park in Glen Rose was quiet around sunrise Monday, save for birds chirping and the hum of an ATV.
Park staff installed barricades to block off one of the main eclipse viewing areas, near large dinosaur statues sporting Texas Parks and Wildlife eclipse-approved sunglasses. Signs by the entrance of the park warned visitors it would be at capacity today.
State parks are among the most popular spots to view the eclipse, with more than 30 Texas parks in the path of totality. Visitors are not able to enter parks today without a camping permit or pre-purchased day pass.
- Lana Ferguson
You’ve got your solar eclipse glasses and your viewing location. Next up: the perfect playlist.
We curated the ultimate 2024 solar eclipse playlist, which includes an abundance of songs with “eclipse” in the title, along with songs about the sun, moon and space. Eight journalists with varying music tastes on The Dallas Morning News Audience Team sorted through their music libraries to find related songs, ranging from pop and country to metal and K-pop.
Songs include Bonnie Tyler’s “Total Eclipse of the Heart,” Pink Floyd’s “Eclipse,” Johnny Cash’s “Ring of Fire,” Phoebe Bridgers’ “Moon Song,” and Rihanna’s “Music of the Sun.”
The best eclipse viewing conditions will likely be north of I-20, according to the National Weather Service.
Cloud coverage will be heavy between 9 and 11 a.m., but some of those clouds are expected to break up before the eclipse.
A thin veil of high clouds, which would allow a glimpse of the eclipse, is forecasted for much of North Texas, the weather service posted on X, formerly Twitter. Some unlucky areas will have dense, low clouds that limit viewing.
“There are some patches of dense high clouds moving in, but a good portion is still fairly thin,” the weather service said.
- Hojun Choi
😎#Eclipse2024 Cloud Update:
— NWS Fort Worth (@NWSFortWorth) April 8, 2024
✅The best viewing conditions are likely north of I-20
☁️It might look BAD around 9-11 am this morning, BUT we are expecting some low clouds to scatter before eclipse time.
🤞High level clouds should remain thin in many spots. #dfwwx #ctxwx #txwx pic.twitter.com/7E12e1CYgt
A town that has been in the spotlight due to an ongoing immigration debate is drawing attention for a once-in-a-lifetime cosmic spectacle. Eagle Pass, with a population of roughly 28,200, will become the first U.S. city to experience totality.
The last time this area of the state, correction, the world, saw this cosmic spectacle – Jan. 21, 1395 – it would be another 450 years before Texas became the nation’s 28th state.
So the city hosted a pre-eclipse three-day music festival at the Kickapoo Lucky Eagle Casino ahead of the total solar eclipse. Visitors flocked from other cities, states, countries and continents.
There were 55-year-olds Michelle Moore and Joel Lockhard, a couple from San Antonio who drove in to see Randy Rogers band Sunday at 9 p.m.
There was Emma Stiglical and Marco Stiglical, a father and daughter from Rome who flew two hours to Paris, then 10 hours to Dallas, before driving the final 6 hours to Eagle Pass to watch as the moon slowly covers the sun.
Marco Stiglical,60, was setting up a telescope outside of Yopo’s restaurant on Sunday night. Astronomy is a hobby for Stiglical, a businessman. He’s already seen a total solar eclipse on July 11, 1991 in Baja California. Emma Stiglical, 19, has not.
But as they arrived in Texas, so did the clouds.
“We were pretty excited but we saw the weather tomorrow,” Emma Stiglical said on Sunday. “So it’s kind of surprising – but we hope for the best.”
- Aarón Torres
Those traveling into downtown Dallas today could see “rolling” road closures on major highways.
From about 1 to 2 p.m., highway exits headed into downtown will be affected by the temporary closures, Dallas police said in social media posts. Drivers leaving downtown should not be impacted, police said, with exits going out of the area remaining open.
The closures will encircle the downtown area, impacting stretches of Interstate 35E, Interstate 30, I-345 and Woodall Rodgers Freeway, including where it connects with U.S. 75 , according to a map provided by Dallas police.
Traffic jams on highways and roads are expected across the city, particularly in the late afternoon after the eclipse ends and people leave their viewing spots all at once, officials have said.
- Aria Jones
Traffic Alert
— Dallas Police Dept (@DallasPD) April 7, 2024
Be aware of rolling road closures INTO downtown Dallas on April 8, from approximately 1:00 pm to 2:00 pm.
The exits off our major highways, highlighted on the map, INTO downtown will be affected by the rolling closures.
Exits OUT of downtown will remain open. pic.twitter.com/5EYhc0kkK0
The eclipse will draw eyes — and cameras — to the sky. While fancy cameras can capture striking images, smartphones work, too. Here are some tips for snapping photos with your smartphone.
First, turn off your flash, advises the American Astronomical Association, a professional astronomy society. “Flashes are an annoyance and, if nothing else, spoil the mood of the spectacle,” the society says in a photography guide.
Do not bother with your smartphone’s zoom feature, says NASA. Using a phone’s manual zoom will weaken the resolution, turning the image grainy. Instead, NASA advises smartphone users purchase a $20 to $40 zoom lens phone attachment to magnify images. Another feature to avoid? Your phone’s auto-focus. Instead, manually focus your camera’s image. To do so, tap the screen and hold your finger on the moon, then slide your finger up or down to light or darken the exposure, according to NASA.
Protecting your eyes during a solar eclipse is crucial, and the same is true for photographing an eclipse. You risk damaging your camera or phone if you take photos of the eclipse without a filter. Also, consider a tripod for steadiness.
“We’re humans and not statues. We can’t be fully still,” said Olivia Arratia, a visiting lecturer of photography for Southern Methodist University. “A tripod will give you a stronger, less shaky photograph.”
North Texans are used to gridlock, but traffic this week could be a different beast.
A Texas Department of Transportation spokesperson has said eclipse traffic could be as if several large football games all end at once, and officials in Texas’ Hill Country have issued dire warnings about gridlock. The Texas Department of Motor Vehicles banned oversized loads in more than 80 Texas counties, including Dallas and Tarrant, until midnight tonight curb some of the gridlock.
The best advice out there: Arrive early, stay late. Get to your viewing spot as early as possible today. If possible, don’t hit the road the moment the eclipse is over. Authorities are encouraging drivers to delay their post-eclipse return trip as long as possible. Anyone planning to be on the road should prep their vehicles by checking tire pressure and stocking up on snacks and water.
Just how bad could it get? Delays in 2017, when a total eclipse crossed over the U.S., were substantial. “The rare eclipse was memorable,” read a 2017 headline from the Lexington Herald-Leader in Kentucky. “The ride home was something they want to forget.”
Good morning, Texas. The big day has arrived, and we’re here to answer your questions and provide the latest on the weather and clouds. Here are the basics:
What time is the eclipse? Around 12:23 p.m. in Dallas, the moon will inch across the sun, with totality — or total coverage of the sun — beginning around 1:40 p.m. and ending around 4 minutes later. The moon will then move away from the sun, with the spectacle ending around 3:02 p.m. Exact timing will depend on location in the metroplex.
Where can I see the eclipse? Just look up. Several Texas cities will be in the path of totality, including Dallas, most of Fort Worth, Waco, Temple, most of Austin and parts of San Antonio. Denton, however, is outside the path of totality.
What about watch parties? There is no shortage of parties. Restaurants, museums, ballparks, colleges and even zoos are planning eclipse parties. You can check our list of watch parties and our list of restaurant food and drink specials.
What causes a total solar eclipse? A total solar eclipse requires a precise astronomical alignment, writes science journalist Adithi Ramakrishnan. The moon must pass between the sun and Earth at exactly the right angle, casting its shadow onto Earth.
Still need glasses? Before you look at the sun, you’ll need protective eyewear. Only during totality is it safe to remove your glasses. Looking at the sun without eye protection can damage or kill cells in the retina that allow us to see, leading to dark spots and distortion in our vision. For those who still need glasses, check Home Depot, Lowe’s and Walmart, all reliable places to buy glasses in person. You might need to call around to find stock. Warby Parker is giving away free, ISO-certified solar eclipse glasses at all of its stores, while supplies last. The Dallas Public Library and many others are also distributing glasses.
The big question remains: Will weather — specifically, clouds — ruin everything?
Today’s forecast calls for cloudy skies across North and Central Texas, but what does this mean for viewing? It depends on the kind of clouds, and there’s some good news for North Texas. The National Weather Service predicts a thin veil of high clouds, which would allow a glimpse of the eclipse.
Visibility is looking less optimal in Central Texas, where thick, low clouds are forecasted. “These clouds will be capable of significantly limiting viewability if they do not scatter out by midday,” the weather service wrote on its website.
If these low clouds haven’t broken apart by noon, it is unlikely visibility will improve by eclipse time, the weather service said. An interactive graphic from the weather service projects about 60% cloud cover for Dallas-Fort Worth at 1 p.m. Monday.
After the eclipse, thunderstorms are likely. The chance of showers starts increasing at 3 p.m. and reaches 90% by 7 p.m. Heavy rain and thunderstorms are expected to continue Tuesday and possibly into Wednesday. Rain would likely worsen post-eclipse traffic, already a concern.
🤔 Wondering what our latest cloud forecast is for the upcoming #Eclipse2024? There is a low chance (~20%) that clouds will break enough for some optimal viewing, but it is incredibly difficult to attribute these breaks to any specific location well in advance. #dfwwx #ctxwx pic.twitter.com/oDkBRgy5Y0
— NWS Fort Worth (@NWSFortWorth) April 7, 2024
Did you nab a hard-to-get day pass to a Texas state park? Or are you hosting an eclipse-themed celebration? Maybe you’re going to get married just as the sun blots out the moon? We want to hear how you’re observing this once-in-a-lifetime occasion.
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Staff writers Aarón Torres, Amber Gaudet, Aria Jones, Devyani Chhetri, Hojun Choi, Lana Ferguson, Leah Waters, Maria Halkias and Valeria Olivares contributed to this report.
Sarah Bahari, Staff writer. Sarah Bahari is a trending news reporter. She previously worked as a writer for the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, where she covered a bit of everything.
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