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The world is all thanks to the sun, the moon and the earth being in perfect alignment. of course the moon casting its shadow on a very distinct part of the world including you in london. starting at 8:25 this morning, we'll start to see that shadow just cast over westminster and big ben. we have 80% totality that's 80% of the sun being covered by the moon's shadow. that's at 9:31. so you want to check that out. if you get a check, weather conditions not so good in northern parts of europe. you will want to travel to the adriatic to get your best viewing conditions. the united kingdom looks fai...

Welcome back. violent winds have wreaked havoc across parts of italy and croasia. our meteorologist is at the world weather center. >> it's so strong it is push vessels like this ashore along the adriatic. this is in croasia. wunds of 160 clumters per hour recorded across this region. it's also overturning 18 wheel trucks on the highways. causing all kinds of problems. look at this heres a wind gust recorded 162 kilometers per hour. the northeastern sections of italy, this also saw the localized winds funnel through the mountain ranges creating

Wind. it's just churning across parts of the adriatic. split croatia. wind gusts measuring 162 near the dolamites. wind gusts of 136. you can see the strongest winds along the coast of croatia even stretching towards slow vain yeah albania and northern greece. this is a very localized wind event. it's all thanks to the mountain regions that help funnel this down to the coast creating the damaging winds. natalie? >> we are hardly a boring old planet, are we? >> no. >> we're fascinating. >> maybe we need to go to mars. >> i don't know. i like all the weather here. i'm going to stay put. i think ...

Across parts of italy. really strong winds in that part of the world. >> this has made headlines in the weather center for about two days. just because it's leaving scenes like this. it's pushing up vessels and ships aground across the adriatic. that's how strong and how violent this localized wind pam known as the bora winds is. it's done something incredible in the northern parts of italy. look at this footage. we teased it earlier before the commercial break. this is several hundred skiering being air-lifted from cable gondolas. they narrowly escaped what was a potential of a terrifying fal...

Cables could snap. that's why they initiated the rescue attempts. fortunately the hundreds of skiers that were rescued were all brought down by safely by hospital or by cable. the wind gusts across this region, near the coast of croatia, 162 kilometers purr hour. the dolomites, that was 130 kilometers per hour. and the bora winds continue for the next 42 to 48 hours. parts of greece and certainly across the adriatic into parts of italy. this is all thanks to a part of pressure gradients, forming behind the mountain line. this low pressure system we've been discussing moves in a westerly direct...