Lake Tahoe provides ideal place for Sunday solar eclipse

A solar eclipse will occur over the western United States today during the late afternoon and early evening with Lake Tahoe being a good location for careful viewing. This event will begin as a partial eclipse around 5:15 p.m., then peak as an annular eclipse around 6:30 p.m. for less than five minutes in all gray shaded areas on the map, and finally return to a partial eclipse which will end around 7:30 p.m.
Mostly clear skies are expected during the eclipse with very good viewing conditions for the Lake Tahoe basin and the Reno-Carson City vicinity, according to the National Weather Service in Reno. Isolated to scattered cumulus will develop by late afternoon in Mineral and Mono counties, spreading north across Lyon and Churchill counties, and in northeast California north of Susanville, but most of the eclipse should still be visible. Temperatures will range from the upper 70s to the mid 80s in lower elevations, and 65-70 degrees in the Lake Tahoe basin. The next total or annular solar eclipse will not occur directly over western Nevada or eastern California until August 2045.
Do not look directly into the sun. Use eclipse-specific eye protection.

Here is information directly from NASA on viewing:
"Partial eclipses, annular eclipses, and the partial phases of total eclipses are never safe to watch without taking special precautions. Even when 99 percent of the sun's surface is obscured during the partial phases of a total eclipse, the remaining photospheric crescent is intensely bright and cannot be viewed safely without eye protection. Do not attempt to observe the partial or annular phases of any eclipse with the naked eye. Failure to use appropriate filtration may result in permanent eye damage or blindness."
The site reports that the safest ways to see an eclipse is by projection, "in which a pinhole or small opening is used to cast the image of the sun on a screen placed a half-meter or more beyond the opening. Projected images of the sun may even be seen on the ground in the small openings created by interlacing fingers, or in the dappled sunlight beneath a leafy tree."