This one passes nearby me. I have a 2 hour car drive planned for the day. Trying to convince people, specially with kids, to go to the totallity path, has proven useless: the websites say "eclipse will be at 99.9 something% here", and they are fully convinced it will be close enough.

Agreed, but I'll just add that annular eclipses occupy an intermediate point on that scale.

With a partial eclipse, shadows look odd and the sunlight "feels" noticeably dimmer and more muted, but if you're not paying attention you might not notice much out of the ordinary.

An annular eclipse is much more dramatic and unmistakable. It's not as striking as totality, and of course you can't directly observe it without eye protection, but the "ring of fire" is beautiful in its own way.

Really? Well that's sad. I'll be going to see my first partial eclipse this week.

If you've ever needed an excuse to rent a sports car and drive for 4-8 hours, this is the one.

Partial and annular solar eclipses are interesting.

Total solar eclipses are magical.

The sun turns into a gleaming jewel and all of nature around you enters another dimension. The animals freak out, the temperature of the air around you drops dramatically, your shadows morph and multiply into weird shapes, it feels like midnight with an ethereal glow.

You see the atmosphere of the sun glow in all chromatic glory.

You'll never witness anything else like it.

Obligatory reference https://xkcd.com/2914/

This is really good, found a possible great spot near Lugo!

it's called Zaragoza

I'll be there! Hoping the forecast changes!

Best of luck with the weather!

I brought binoculars to the 2024 event and made sure to keep my eyes closed during the preceding partial solar eclipse (eye acclimation).

After the total eclipse was over, I watched a single honeybee re-orient itself, having temporarily lost its heliocentric bearings (bees "see" the sun's polarity, which helps keep them oriented).

Having also witnessed the 2017 total eclipse, certainly these are memorable events worth traveling into their totalities (could not say the same for partial eclipses).