Set up my TV refractor + solar filter before 'intrusion' and watched the event slowly progress. One long chain of sunspots then a smaller nice group on the lower right, a bit on 'the edge of the sphere' so to speak. Like being able read some lettering on the edge of a basketball when viewing it from straight on.
A few neighbors wandered over and I gave them a look. Once it reached sufficient altitude and obstruction, the driveway and sled hood was littered with hundreds of tiny solar crescents:
The neighbors were wow'd by this. They'd never heard of it.
The high so far is 93°F. About 10° below usual. Solar intensity really dropped, the light turned 'silvery/gray'. I'm in about the 65% zone. Standing in the Sun was quite a bit cooler than at 1pm CDT (6p UTC). I'm curious how the temporary cooling from the NW to the SE, across such a large area of the continental USA would affect the weather.
My weather station is a Davis Vantage PRO unit with a solar intensity sensor. Here's the hourly readings it stored:
Time (CDT).........Solar Intensity (W/M^2)
12p........................843
1p.........................536
2p.........................335
2:30p......................874
Here's a few photos taken by holding the camera up to the TV's eyepiece. In the first, you can see a large sunspot just to the left of the limb. In photo #2, you can see two smaller groups to the right of the first. This also shows the direction the Moon is moving.