Watch the moment the solar eclipse hit Northeast Ohio

News 5's Mark Johnson and Katie McGraw were live the moment totality hit Northeast Ohio during the total solar eclipse. This is what the eclipse looked like in the Cleveland area.

[@MuchMoreMatt]

The red "flare" wasn't a Baily bead, it was a solar prominence. I saw it, too, outside Erie, PA. Drove all the way from Rochester, NY to get to clear skies. 10/10 would love to see another one!

[@yusefendure]

Correct.

[@drlax15m]

I thought it was some sort of solar flare, but it is called a prominence, you could see it arcing pretty far, incredible

[@katiesykes2215]

I love watching/hearing all the emotional reactions of people who haven’t seen one. So magical.

[@claudiozamudio2952]

Words can’t describe how awesome it looked with the Naked eye

[@thirteenthtribe402]

This is exactly our experience. It’s impossible to describe properly to others who do not experience it. Very emotional on numerous levels. Absolutely incredible video coverage and the raw unscripted emotional commentary was fantastic.

[@Loca_216]

I definitely cried 😆

[@Xane_Dragon]

It's total euphoria 😮

[@user-mn6sq3is4t]

People in US Canada and Mexico are very lucky to watch this😢😢😢😢😢

[@johnnywrath6969]

Watched from the Cleveland suburbs. OMG! Cleveland is cloudy 86% percent of April 8ths historically. It was just wispy thin clouds and a perfect view!! Truly breathtaking. All it would have took was a spring thunderstorm to ruin it. I am so happy!

[@yusefendure]

I was at Oberlin College in a packed field, and it knocked my socks off!! The stars, planets, high clouds, and the second sunrise blew everybody away. That was a phenomenal, once-in-a-lifetime event! Life is precious!

[@FoOtFoOt542]

That shiny ring of the corona was intense. Photos do it no justice. Has to be witnessed in person.

[@colty7764]

to see that bright ring up in the middle of the sky is incredibly awesome in person. Unreal and magical in person.

[@Rebecca-oh5yh]

It was so beautiful! I wasn't expecting it.

[@yusefendure]

100% agreement!

[@Xane_Dragon]

Yes, it looks like a diamond cut mirror shimmering and sparkling...looks like an actual piece of beautiful jewelry hanging closely above 😮

[@davecrupel2817]

I've never seen such a ghostly white in my life. 😮 It was unbelievable.

[@theteleisewilliamsexperience]

I live in Garfield Heights the sun was in my front yard we watched from my front steps. The temperature changed it was amazing.

[@sky173]

I traveled from Flint, Michigan the day before. It took about 3 hours to drive there. The drive home was crazy. I averaged 30mph all the way home because the highways were parking lots, but I'd do it all over again. It was amazing to see my first, and possibly my last eclipse.

[@game_critic]

Yup, a crawl from Toledo to Ann Arbor. Was in that mess too. Like you said, it was worth it.

[@user-mn6sq3is4t]

Once in a lifetime experience😢😢😢😢😢

[@Longenecker1776]

I can’t imagine being in the middle of an eclipse and required to talk non stop about it while I’m looking into a TV camera for news. Anyway, I’m glad I could enjoy it with my family in our backyard! It was truly amazing.

[@game_critic]

Traveled from the Upper Michigan to Forest Ohio. Parked right next to a train track just outside of town. Such a beautiful sight! There is no words that can truly captuere how amazing it was to be in totality. Awe inspiring. *EDIT* Thank you to all the Ohioans who were friendly and tolerated us tourists.

[@curiousnomadic]

Cool. Was that dead center? We went to Wapakoneta at the Neil Armstrong Space Museum expecting amateur astronomers there since they have so much gear. A lot of people there?

[@game_critic]

@curiousnomadic The town was getting busy, and they had food vendors and souvenir shops. Was very nice, but we wanted to get out somewhere away from traffic. Yes, Forest was right in the path of totality. Great time!

[@Geoffr524]

@@curiousnomadic I was also at the "Armstrong Air & Space Museum" too, with a friend. I did a video there, a "crowd reaction video".

[@curiousnomadic]

@@Geoffr524 Nice. Wasn't the vibe there cool? Everyone being generous and friendly with one another.

[@user-mn6sq3is4t]

Watching from India wish I was in Ohio to watch it live🇮🇳🇮🇳🇮🇳🇮🇳🇮🇳

[@EmilyTienne]

The excitement in these two is AWESOME. one minor correction: that red dot is a solar flare.

[@markbenfield6980]

Commenting from Fairborn Ohio here, we all here could definitely see some type of either solar flare or solar activity from the corona of the sun at around the 7 o'clock position so it was obviously still active as the moons shadow was crossing into areas further northeast of where I live. But what an awesome and spectacular celestial phenomenon to view! This particular kind of eclipse only happens about once every 500 years peeps. There will be another eclipse this year, in October, but it won't be total solar eclipse, it will be an annular one, which not the entirety on the sun will be blocked out by the moon, we would see what is called a ring of fire around the circumference of the moon but unfortunately that eclipse will not be visible here, we'll get a partial eclipse, about 10%, but not a full one.

[@stephaniedickson9580]

We saw the same in Beavercreek! How amazing!

[@gamemods855]

The next one is in 2 years... Another one in 2027. Don't know where you got 500 years from.

[@Xane_Dragon]

​@@gamemods855 Yeah, it's Iceland in 2026, not America 😂

[@4st1zz9]

The screen went black before anything even happened

[@THERSC216]

I was at University Heights' party in the Walter Stinson Park. It was beautiful

[@kim-pm8gi]

Lexington ohio was an awesome view of totality for at least 3 minutes. Right off my back porch 😊

[@GEOMETRICINK]

That’s amazing. I had the same experience in 2017. I watched it from my backyard in grand island Nebraska. This year I live an hour from Cleveland, so we had over 90% of the sun blocked out. It was still very cool.

[@ZeeZee9]

@@GEOMETRICINKYou should have driven to Cleveland. Big difference between 90% and total. A tiny sliver of sun still lights up the earth quite a lot. It's crazy

[@GEOMETRICINK]

@@ZeeZee9 I know! We tried. We didn’t anticipate the traffic. I didn’t realize we needed to drive there a day early or leave in the wee hours. We were super disappointed

[@ZeeZee9]

@@GEOMETRICINK Oh man. Well at least you got to see the totality in 2017. Cheers :)

[@jayjonesii4049]

Watching the solar eclipse, the once in a lifetime thing was incredible I mean amazing. 😁 It's exciting.

[@MrCyberShow]

Why are you looking at the camera? Just look at the eclipse.

[@hardblockz95]

I was there when it happened at that park 😊

[@steveb7429]

I traveled from Florida to Avon Lake. Words don’t do it justice. It was incredible!

[@debbiegundel3455]

This is amazing!

[@MyCatChloe]

Parma, Ohio!! It was absolutely incredible

[@sandrarhine7600]

God blessed us with a nice view THANK YOU

[@Matthew12_14]

he really did !!!!😢

[@JoeyBoBoey]

🤔😏

[@eastcoast16s]

Drove from Central PA to Chagrin Falls to capture it. Watched the weather and picked that area based on cloud cover maps and forecasts the night before and early in the AM. Glad we picked the spot we did. It was perfect!!! Traveling to Spain in 2026 for the next one. Got a ton of photos

[@sphexes]

The collective excitement was the best.

[@kilroy987]

"You're never going to see this again" well, maybe in 21 years.

[@SarahB1863]

Not in Ohio. The next total solar eclipse in Ohio is in 2099, 75 years from now. There will be a total eclipse in the Dakotas and Montana in 2044, but it will be a sunset eclipse so not nearly as dramatic. There will be one in 2045 that will go over parts of the South, but it's a narrow band.

[@Justice55339h]

God is on the throne. He gave you clear skies! Us too

[@Xane_Dragon]

Who....Lord Rah

[@s.p.muthuramalingammadurai6320]

Very Beautiful ❤

[@lotuspod1222]

we had cloud cover so all we got was dark it sucked

[@ZeeZee9]

Was it still cool though?

[@focused4841]

The animals was going cray lol

[@orionharmon6017]

It was a one amazing, epic and remarkable total solar eclipse we had yesterday 🤩😍🌘🌑

[@Rayzzace1]

WoW

[@TheIronDuke9]

Drove me crazy that she kept looking at the camera! lol

[@user-bg8st7ko2t]

It was. So cool at ,y house

[@phantomblindsight907]

it's beatlegueise and beatleguiser in the red

[@frankendoodle6379]

The red light is a prominence. The pinkish glow around the sun is the chromosphere (helium makes it pink), and the haze is the corona, very mysterious corona, why is it so hot? Bailys beads happens when the sunlight passes thru valleys n craters along the edge the moment before totality, and after. Sorry to be that guy. Very magical moment none the least.

[@jolyonwelsh9834]

Hopefully this will bring more money to this broke cheap-ass Town of ours.

[@HermiluzTahimic]

oki

[@JoeSlops]

Sad that I will never see another total eclipse but so thankful that I got to witness today. It was beyond amazing...

[@davedaves3489]

The guy should pipe down a bit and enjoy more.

[@billsauer3164]

I work 3rd shift so I missed it 😢😢

[@user-mn6sq3is4t]

😢😢😢😢😢😢

[@jmorrison44601]

This was the rapture and all of us were left behind

[@TattedIrishxxx]

😆

[@lydianyakundi5749]

The second coming will be like a thunderstorm storm in the sky times 1000… meteorologists should be predicting this ..too bad His coming is unpredictable.

[@TattedIrishxxx]

@@lydianyakundi5749 if you believe in that fairytale.

[@linuslanser4719]

Why do your people wish the world to end? Is it because you read it in a book?

[@dancanwasaal1870]

The works of God is amazing.I am amazed by your works Lord.Praise the Lord who does great wonders in the sky.

[@MrHall64]

Pope Leo X Purgatory Priest Carl Luke - Hail Mary for the Holy Souls in Purgatory

[@mariovo5]

🤗🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳🫣

[@user-bh7cs4dp2r]

Just a little bit over reactive maybe ?!?!

[@SarahB1863]

Did you see it?

[@user-bh7cs4dp2r]

@@SarahB1863 yes

[@RandyTalk]

His is dum I didn’t see that happening because tho ugly cloud ☁️ get in way of it and block it out for me Who else miss out on see his happened 👇

[@Yesica1993]

God's design of His creation is incredible! But how many of these people will give glory to Him?

[@cezzanne490]

What an amazing event! God is the Ultimate Creator ! Thank you God! In the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit ...... Amen!

[@bobsmith5746]

Earth is flat brother

[@YouBetterPreach]

Only a fool says in his heart that there is no God...

[@Xane_Dragon]

Quoted from a fantasy novel 🙄😖

[@seyoumsolomon5627]

JESUS IS THE TRUTH, THE LIFE AND THE WAY...JESUS IS COMING VERY SOON!

[@vigo894]

You're like a broken record. We moved on from it.

[@TattedIrishxxx]

Keep your religious beliefs to yourself. No one cares.

[@linuslanser4719]

We don’t understand why your kind of people wants the world to end. You’re all waiting for 3 days of darkness, earthquake and some other crap you read from a book. We’re still still alive just so you know.

[@aminn7743]

If Jesus turned water to wine and stone to bread that would mean he preformed magic aka witchcraft.

[@agent1.618]

a complete overreaction 🙄

[@richarddemp2413]

The way this dude is overreacting, you'd think he saw Uranus.

[@pastelle_music]

Not overreacting, that's an authentic flabbergasted response

[@psychickumquat]

Maybe come out of your rock for a bit and you'll understand

[@deansullivan6353]

Holy shit did you see that? Neither did eyes 🤓🫢

[@Rayzzace1]

WoW

[@user-mn6sq3is4t]

❤❤❤❤❤❤❤