Your carefully worded eclipse forecast

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The solar eclipse is nigh.

For several minutes on Monday afternoon, the moon will cover the sun like an eyelid, and parts of Pennsylvania will be plunged into darkness.

Several northwest counties are in the path of totality, meaning 100% of the sun will be blocked there. Past observers have described a surreal, primeval, even hair-raising experience in which birds flock, dogs howl, and street lights flicker on at midday.

The eclipse will be less than total — but pretty close — in a much broader swath of the commonwealth, yet the question remains: Will clouds ruin everything?

For as long as officials have been preparing for this event, they’ve been worried about Pennsylvania’s pervasive spring cloud cover blocking the bespectacled views. 

“Listen, it’s a genuine concern,” state Sen. Dan Laughlin (R., Erie) said of gray skies in a 2023 interview with PA Local. “We’ll keep our fingers crossed.”

Now that the big day is close, how’s it looking? The answer is "not as bad as some people feared," with a heavy dose of caveats. 

David Marsalek, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Cleveland, which covers Erie, told the Times-News that sky cover is “one of the hardest things” to predict but noted conditions were “‘looking on the slightly optimistic side’ with only partly cloudy skies, dry conditions and temperatures in the mid-50s” expected there on Monday, the paper reported. AccuWeather is leaning mostly cloudy.

The loss of radiation from the sun during a total eclipse can cause temperatures to drop in minutes and cloud cover and winds to decrease, the NWS recently tweeted. So there's that.

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The answer is "B. Hershey's Kisses."

A bill that would make Kisses Pennsylvania's official state candy is on its way to the state Senate after passing the state House last week, despite a some lower chamber opposition. 

The bill is part of civics education project by a group of Bucks County 11th graders. It was first proposed when they were in middle school.

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