After witnessing the eclipse in La Serena on July 2nd, 2019, we were interested in finding out how much the atmosphere's surface layer had cooled during the event. Observers reported that they felt colder during the eclipse than before, but that does not necessarily imply that the air temperature dropped considerably, since much of the sensation may be due to an experienced reduction in direct radiative heating of the body. CEAZAMet operates a monitoring network with many stations inside the belt of totality of this eclipse which provided us with near-surface air temperature data. However, no 'obvious' pattern of change, such as a pronounced dip in the temperature curve, is consistently discernible at all or a majority of the stations. The eclipse occurred so close to sunset that temperatures had started dropping before C1 and little radiative energy was available after C4 to raise temperatures again. Furthermore, any features of the **data** from the day of the eclipse which could potentially be www.nature.com/scientificreports/ interpreted as dips in temperature do not stand out against the general background of intra-diurnal variability in the Coquimbo Region. This is because the dominantly southerly wind alternates frequently between a slight on-and offshore flow, which brings with it strong advective temperature changes since a cold ocean borders a strongly heated land surface.