Many places in Ireland are looking good for the solar eclipse on Wednesday evening – the most complete until 2090. The partial solar eclipse will begin between 6.09pm in the most northern parts of Ireland and a bit later the farther south you go. Mid-eclipse will be between 7.07pm and 7.13pm and it will end just after 8pm across the island.Eclipse coverage (the percentage of the sun’s surface blocked by the moon during a solar eclipse) will range from 94 per cent in the far north to almost 97 per cent in the far southwest.The current weather forecast for around 7pm on Wednesday evening is for the southeast and Waterford to be completely cloud free with Dublin and parts of north Leinster to be mostly cloud free. Unfortunately, the far southwest corner is looking like it will have almost complete cloud cover. At 7pm Wednesday evening, Met Éireann is showing cloudless skies in Dublin, Co Wexford, Kilkenny city and Waterford city. [ ‘Thousands of special viewing glasses’ sold for most prominent solar eclipse in 27 yearsOpens in new window ]In Cork city it is partially cloudy at maximum eclipse. In Castletownbere in the Beara peninsula, the forecast is for cloud and rain. Many places will have a dry and sunny day on Wednesday with a yellow heat warning for 12 counties in the east and southeast, but the presence of clouds makes detailed forecast difficult for the time of the eclipse, says Met Éireann chief forecaster Andrew Doran-Sherlock. He says the southeast is the best place to watch it, other parts of the country may have breaks in the clouds, but it is hard to predict where. He rates the probability of clear skies as “high” for the southeast, slightly lower in Dublin and uncertain for the rest of the country for which there are “no guarantees”. He stressed everywhere has a chance of breaks in the cloud given that the eclipse is two hours long in total. “There is uncertainty in it and to try and say that within the time frame is difficult at the moment,” he concluded.