Special Report
The whooping students quieted. The NASA broadcasters just let the cameras run. Laser physicist Barry Coyle got goosebumps.
From confused animals at Riverbanks Zoo in Columbia to timid viewers in North Charleston as clouds and lightning approached the Lowcountry, there were a mixed bag of experiences of totality across the Lowcountry and the state.
Around downtown Charleston, the fantastical mixed with the mundane as hundreds gathered to watch the eclipse while others went about their lives as if nothing much was happening.
Congratulations, you live in the Charleston area or you're here visiting, and you've got a front row seat to one of the most anticipated astronomical events in recent memory.
The potential 1 million visitors expected in Charleston Monday should be warned: It may be cloudy during the eclipse.Â
Monday won't be the typical start to the work week in the Charleston area as residents and visitors alike prepare for the sky to go dark mid-afternoon.Â
The eclipse experience in South Carolina? Clouds and crowds.
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — How do you top the celestial event of a lifetime? By getting engaged, totally.
Thousands of people saw the solar eclipse from Charleston on Monday.Â
A military training mission provided a North Charleston-based flight crew with a bird's eye view of Monday's historic solar eclipse.
The eclipse experience in South Carolina? Clouds and crowds.
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — How do you top the celestial event of a lifetime? By getting engaged, totally.
ISLE OF PALMS — Lightning flashed across cloudy skies during Monday's solar eclipse, but the people jammed on the beach were cheering.
The total solar eclipse Monday drew arguably the largest numbers of people to the Cape Romain National Wildlife Refuge, Francis Marion National Forest and area small towns in their history.
Totality had ended, but alcohol and blaring pop music fueled an eclipse party well into the afternoon hours Monday outside Fleet Landing restaurant in Charleston.Â
The whooping students quieted. The NASA broadcasters just let the cameras run. Laser physicist Barry Coyle got goosebumps.
We knew where it would go, this moon shadow. Across America. Oregon to Charleston in about 90 minutes. A total eclipse of the sun.
MONCKS CORNER — The sterile tang of two enormous latex balloons mingled with the sweet smell of ozone, precursor to a summer storm. The wind picked up, and thunder cracked over the treeline.
From confused animals at Riverbanks Zoo in Columbia to timid viewers in North Charleston as clouds and lightning approached the Lowcountry, there were a mixed bag of experiences of totality ac…
Ominous gray rain clouds held off for the total solar eclipse Monday at The Bend in North Charleston, allowing for complete visibility of the historic event for thousands of onlookers.
FOLLY BEACH — Many came a long way for an event they had been anticipating for months.
COLUMBIA — Most fascinating to scientist Adam Hartstone-Rose were the siamang apes at the Riverbanks Zoo.
COLUMBIA — The steps of the South Carolina Statehouse began to fill up hours before people's eyes turned to the sky.
MOUNTAIN REST — Outside the Stumphouse Ranger Station in Oconee County's Sumter National Forest, some families had taken spots for hours in advance to be among the first people in South Caroli…
The folding table in the middle of Boeing's North Charleston plant was all set with Moon Pies and special eclipse glasses, but there was more than one kind of drama in the sky.
the moon is unmoving.
Around downtown Charleston, the fantastical mixed with the mundane as hundreds gathered to watch the eclipse while others went about their lives as if nothing much was happening.
While tourists and locals alike begin to flood eclipse events, traffic in portions of the greater Charleston area are beginning to see delays.
Congratulations, you live in the Charleston area or you're here visiting, and you've got a front row seat to one of the most anticipated astronomical events in recent memory.
A "Total Eclipse Charleston" celebration is planned noon to 4 p.m. Aug. 21 along the Ashley River at the recently opened 17-acre outdoor venue The Bend. It's free and the first 5,000 attendees…
Ben Shapo has watched total solar eclipses from a crowded beach in Venezuela, a lake in Hungary and a desert in Mexico. When deciding where to travel from his home in Washington, D.C., to agai…
While most agencies did not alter their hours due to the eclipse, some local government offices are closed all day or closing early so that employees can avoid being on the roads during the ec…
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The potential 1 million visitors expected in Charleston Monday should be warned: It may be cloudy during the eclipse.Â
Monday won't be the typical start to the work week in the Charleston area as residents and visitors alike prepare for the sky to go dark mid-afternoon.Â
A feeling that you're tiny. Maybe a sensation of vastness. A sense of the world being grander than you typically notice.
In many cultures throughout history, an eclipse has been seen as an omen, a sign of something gone awry in the heavens.
A few hours before the solar eclipse passes over South Carolina, dozens of balloons equipped with video cameras and long-distance transmitters will begin floating toward the stratosphere.
The total solar eclipse on Aug. 21 isn't the first eclipse to wow spectators in Charleston, nor will it be the last.
If there’s a wind, it tends to still near totality, the point where the moon completely eclipses the sun.
Do the movements of the heavens affect human behavior? You bet, especially when the moon the passes in front of the sun. On Monday, millions of Americans will stop what they’re doing and bask …
Over the past 2,000 years, the area we know now as South Carolina has experienced 21 total solar eclipses, including 16 of their central paths.
WASHINGTON (AP) — It's not just the skies that get dark when there's a total solar eclipse. So do we.
South Carolina's population could temporarily swell by more than 40 percent by Monday if high-end estimates are on target, calling for nearly 2.2 million eclipse chasers to flood the Palmetto State.
Forecasters with the National Weather Service are warning that cloud cover could obscure views of the Great American Eclipse on Monday in Charleston and the rest of the Lowcountry.
When the heavens go dark, as they will for a brief moment during Monday's solar eclipse, it's understandable that people would search for a higher meaning about what's going on.
Five college football games ending all at once. A hurricane evacuation. Several inches of snow.
In the hours around Monday's total solar eclipse, cities and venues around South Carolina will offer dozens of viewing experiences.
Summer is almost over, school's back in session, and on the shores of Lake Marion, tourist season is winding down.
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Eclipse mania is building and so is demand for the glasses that make it safe to view the first total solar eclipse to cross the U.S. in 99 years.
A 288-foot yacht owned by Sears SEO Eddie Lampert - not billionaire entrepreneur Mark Cuban - was turning heads of motorists Friday on the James Island connector.Â
Experiencing a total solar eclipse is like abruptly finding yourself on an alien planet.
The muddled message of whether NBC meteorologist Al Roker will cover the eclipse Monday at Patriots Point has been cleared up.
Airbnb hosts across South Carolina will rake in $2 million thanks to the solar eclipse passing over the state on Monday.
Some homeless men and women in Charleston will get to watch the solar eclipse on Monday with safety glasses but supplies are limited.
Kelly and Matthew Smith are towing their miniature tear-drop camper on its maiden voyage as they stake out a viewing spot for a rare astronomical event: Monday's total solar eclipse.
Cloudy is still the forecast over Charleston for Monday's rare total solar eclipse.
Total solar eclipses occur every year or two or three, often in the middle of nowhere like the South Pacific or Antarctic.