http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/sc ... ceeclipse/
Needless to say, that doesn't happen very often. The last one was in 1638 or 1378... depending on your source.
Clouds here are forecast to be around 90%. That always seems to happen when something astronomically cool happens where I live. I'm definitely going to be taking peeks outside a lot, to see if the clouds happen to part for a bit.