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Grant Privett
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I got a very similar result at Lebrancon near Molinas de Aragon.

I assumed the cause was 3 fold:

Extinction due to the low solar elevatio at totality
Dust suspended in the atmosphere – Spain was bone dry (our car was covered with it)
Smoke particles arising from the wildfires

Certainly on a cloud free day in Madrid the day before, the sky was not blue but whitish – I would swear when we left the hotel we could faintly smell burning one day.

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