Nature feels no compulsion to play by our rules.

The rare super-blue-blood-moon (or was it blue-blood-supermoon?) sounded nice: an eclipse (amazing) at the moon's closest point to earth (bonus) while the moon was full (we can feel the photo-op building) and a "blue moon"—second full moon of the month—to boot (just because this thing needed extra novelty).

The timing was not so good in central Missouri: the moon was setting in the west as the full eclipse was happening, and the sun was rising. But there was still a chance: if you were on a high point, with an unobstructed view to the west, just maybe...

Then the clouds rolled in.

As the lunar eclipse began, the somewhat-overcast skies cast a haze around the dying light. But by 7:15 a.m., by the time the eclipse was in totality, the sky was fully shrouded in clouds, and the moon's antics were invisible to us mid-Missourians. Before the clouds arrived, local photographer Al Griffin managed to snap the photo above.

So go these natural phenomena: they come and go without regard for our curiosity. And mid-Missouri got its fair share of amazing eclipse action with the full total eclipse in 2017. Thankfully, the next total lunar eclipse isn't too far off: Jan. 21, 2019.


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