Hotel rooms in Texas were selling for around $800 a night to sky-gazers hoping to catch a glimpse of the eclipse - but now people are trying to offload them because the forecast is for 75% cloud cover.
This week in America it pays to know your cumulus from your cirrus and your nimbostratus from your plain old regular stratus. They are all types of cloud, with cloud cover forecast to play havoc with the plans of hundreds of thousands of people preparing to watch the eclipse on Monday. Unusually for this time of the year, the northeast of the US is likely to have better conditions than the southwest.
'I'm bringing my children with me,' he adds, 'they're nine and six and will be grown and out of the house by the time of the next eclipse in 2044 so it's very special to share this with them. It will be great if we have a clear view.' American network television has been featuring regular updates from its meteorologists about conditions in the path of totality.
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