Local animals and birds often prepare for sleep or behave confusedly during totality. Local temperatures often drop 20 degrees or more near totality. During totality, the horizon is illuminated in a narrow band of light, because an observer is seeing distant localities not under the direct umbra of the Moon's shadow. Eclipse shadows travel at 5,000 mph at the poles, and 1,100 mph at the equator. The width of a path of totality is 167 miles wide.
Local animals prepare for sleep or act confused during totality.
Temperatures drop 20 degrees or more at totality. The horizon glows from distant localities not under the direct umbra.