Today's Solar Eclipse

Copied from Astronomy Magazine:

Today a celestial lineup will turn daytime into dusk during the 21st century's sixth total solar eclipse. As the Moon slowly covers the Sun's face — then hides it for as long as 2.5 minutes — where you are will determine how much of this event you'll see.

This total eclipse is visible from within a narrow corridor that traverses half the Earth. The path of the Moon's umbral shadow — the dark, inner part where the eclipse is total — begins in Canada and extends across northern Greenland, the Arctic, central Russia, Mongolia, and China. Inhabitants of those regions outside the central eclipse path will see a partial eclipse if they fall under the much broader path of the Moon's penumbral shadow — the outer, lighter part. The partial eclipse zone includes northeastern North America and most of Europe and Asia. Unfortunately, none of the United States falls under any part of the Moon's shadow.

A total solar eclipse occurs when the Sun, the Moon, and Earth align, with the Moon in the middle. In a rough sense, this happens every 29.5 days, each time there's a New Moon. The Moon's orbit tilts about 5° to Earth's orbit, so most of the time the Moon lies above or below the center line of the three bodies. Only when it lies on that line does totality occur, and then only for a narrow path where the inner (darkest) part of the Moon's shadow touches Earth.
Regions that fall under the outer portion of the Moon's shadow experience a partial eclipse. The closer a location is to the center line, the deeper (percentage-wise) the eclipse.

The eclipse begins in Canada, touches parts of Greenland, Russia, Kazakhstan, and Mongolia, and ends in China.
The shadow will reach its most northerly latitude, 83°47', at 9h38m UT in the Arctic Ocean.
The instant of greatest eclipse occurs at 10h21m07s UT at latitude 65°39' north.
The shadow attains a maximum width of 147 miles (237 km).
The total shadow path is 6,325 miles (10,200 km) long.
During the eclipse, the Moon's shadow covers 0.4 percent of Earth's surface.
The entire eclipse lasts 2 hours, 3 minutes (totality lasts a maximum of 2 minutes, 27 seconds).


I'm in the northeastern States and the small hint of the eclipse is being overshadowed by the total cloud cover we have today. No observation for me.
Has anyone else been able to observe the eclipse?

I thought this kind of eclipse was much more rare. Every 29.5 days! it's practically commonplace, LOL.