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We've been unlucky for totals across the US recently... but there will be one in 2017! The biggest temperature drop I experienced for a non-total (but very close) is 10 degrees in May 1994. (90 to 80F). In Libya we measured a 15 degree (F) temperature drop... but that was in the desert near noon...

Hi Kellie-- actually, the U.S. is not particularly under-represented eclipse-wise, it just seems that way lately. The problem is that the eclipse path is so small relative to the Earth's size, that the probable frequency for a total solar eclipse to occur at any one spot on Earth is, on average,...