As you may be aware, there’s a solar eclipse across the country today. Iowa is only going to get a partial experience of it, though. A little sliver of the very southwest corner is supposed to be in the “path of totality”, but if the map overestimates the shadow by half a mile on either side, that won’t happen. Fremont County has made preparations, although Waubonsie State Park itself isn’t in the path.
Cosmic irony being what it is, most of Iowa will be under overcast if not rainy skies, because that’s what happens in an abnormally dry month that absolutely needed one sunny day. (OK, three sunny days, since my two at the state fair also got dripped on.)
UPDATE: Totally a bust in most of the state. The Register, however, went with those Fremont County eclipse-seekers and school kids to the VERY southwest corner of the state to watch the 30 seconds of totality on the fringe.
(Totality on the Fringe would be a good name for a rock band.)