What you need to know if you are in metro Atlanta [Video]

The next total solar eclipse, when the moon comes between us and the sun, is happening on April 8. 

The path of totality, where the moon will completely block out the sun, will be 115 miles wide and cut diagonally across the United States.

The moon’s shadow will move across Mexico, then enter the United States west of San Antonio at around 1:27 p.m. local time, crossing Austin and Dallas. From there, it will cut northeast through parts of Oklahoma, Arkansas, Missouri, Kentucky, Illinois, Indiana, and Ohio, then the northern portions of Pennsylvania, New York, Vermont, New Hampshire and Maine.

Viewers in the path of the total solar eclipse, which is called the Great American Eclipse, may notice a drop in temperature, a change in the wind, the appearance of bright planets in the sky, and the quieting of birds and other wildlife.

If the sky is clear, viewers in …