As viewed from the GOES-17 weather satellite. Of course, the darkest area is the totality.   For comparison, 12:58pm. The eclipse, at 1:42pm. It is the dark area over Texas. The black area is the eclipse's shadow.  Eclipse 1:46pm. You can see the circular nature of the cloud cover.  The cirrus clouds over Mexico are already lightening as the shadow moves rapidly northeast.  1:52pm, the back edge of the eclipse shadow.  Color animation of the eclipse from above is here .  And, even an airplane can't outrun the eclipse .  This might be the plane.  Eclipse Shadows in Wichita (partial eclipse): BTW: so far, it appears the cloud forecasts have been excellent. Nice job, weather science!