Yesterday, the Saudi Ministry of Education warned all its employees against looking directly into the sun with the naked eye, as of Thursday morning, as the eclipse will witness the first to cross the lands of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia in 97 years.
The ministry said in a statement that "the eclipse will start at 5.33 am, and its peak will be at 6.37 am, and it will end at 7.45 am."
The Professor of Climate at the Qaseem University, Dr. Abdullah Al-Misnad, warned against looking at the coming sun during the annular eclipse taking place in the Kingdom, which coincides with the exit of students from their homes to their schools.
He said, "The phenomenon of the annular eclipse Thursday is the first to cross the lands of Saudi Arabia in 97 years. Therefore, the Saudis who have not lived from them now have not seen this phenomenon in their land before, even those who were just over 97 years old."
Al-Misnad continued in a series of tweets, saying, “Looking at the sun is very dangerous to the retina of the eye, whether or not the sun is panning, and I call upon everyone to avoid looking at it directly or even by using sunglasses or burning films and the like, due to the danger of visible and direct rays on the eye, which may "You become temporarily blind, even with eclipse glasses."