Western Washington's view of Sunday's solar eclipse was shrouded by cloudiness, but despite that, the KIRO 7 StormTracker was able to capture the moon's shadow as it moved across the Pacific.

Using the GOES-West satellite at 22,236 miles above the equator, a timelapse movie shows the transit of the eclipse shadow from Asia east-southeastward across the Pacific Ocean and the southwestern U.S.

In fact, the extensive cloudiness over the Pacific related to our soggy forecast this week actually enhanced the view from the satellite's perspective.

Had the skies above the Northwest been clear, the moon's disk would have partially obscured the sun, though we are too far north to have seen the "perfect" annular eclipse, called the "Ring of Fire."  

That phenomenon was seen across parts of the southwestern U.S.