Eclipse 2019: Why does a total lunar eclipse NOT occur at every full moon?

Those in the south west of the UK will be most likely to lay on eyes on the event this morning.

Emma Smith, a meteorologist for the Met Office, said: “We probably won’t be able to see it around central or southern England, the Midlands, East Anglia, London. It will be quite overcast.

“In the south-west – Devon, Cornwall – there will be clear skies, you could see it there and around the coast of Wales, but mainland Wales, it will be grey and overcast but the west coast of wales, it’s clear.

“Northern England has a good chance of seeing it and southern and eastern Scotland and Northern Ireland.

“But there are outbreaks of rain and sleet and snow and in western Scotland, it will be cloudier, so you won’t be able to see it there.

“Where it’s cloudy it will be quite overcast, there won’t be many gaps in the cloud to see the moon, which is a shame.”