Bright blue skies greeted Vermonters — and thousands of visitors — on Monday morning ahead of the 2024 total solar eclipse. Interstate traffic was beginning to stack up in some places, and early birds snagged prime viewing spots along waterfronts from Burlington to Newport and places in between. In Burlington, the sky will begin to darken around 2:15 p.m. as the moon starts to obscure the sun; it will go completely dark at 3:26 p.m. The "path of totality" — where the eclipse will... Read this story