Anyone experiencing the solar eclipse on April 8 felt a noticeable drop in temperature as the moment of totality approached and the moon blocked out the sun.

And while all eyes were looking upward during the once-in-a-lifetime astronomical event, the Cleveland Water Alliance’s buoy sensors were busy recording all of that unique environmental data.

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Kim Palmer of Crain's writes about CWA's Smart Lake Erie Watershed and the data captured about the total solar eclipse on April 8th.