{"id":736456,"date":"2026-08-13T08:02:12","date_gmt":"2026-08-13T08:02:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/736456\/"},"modified":"2026-08-13T08:02:12","modified_gmt":"2026-08-13T08:02:12","slug":"solar-eclipse-2026-caught-on-camera-across-wales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/736456\/","title":{"rendered":"Solar eclipse 2026 caught on camera across Wales"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Most of Wales seemed to stop on Wednesday evening, to take in the biggest <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/live\/c4gwd5rwvx5t\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">partial solar eclipse<\/a> in nearly three decades.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">People gathered to enjoy the spectacular sight with more than 90% of the Sun&#8217;s disk covered in some locations.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It came as Wales provisionally recorded its hottest August day on record with 35.3\u00b0C (96F) in Gogerddan, Aberystwyth, according to the Met Office.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A solar eclipse happens when the Moon moves between the Sun and Earth, blocking the Sun&#8217;s light either partially or fully when viewed from Earth.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">And BBC Weather Watchers were out and about to capture the moment on camera.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Most of Wales seemed to stop on Wednesday evening, to take in the biggest partial solar eclipse in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":736457,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[59,90,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-736456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-science","tag-gb","tag-science","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/736456","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=736456"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/736456\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/736457"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=736456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=736456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=736456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}