Posted on 03/24/2023 4:53:50 PM PDT by BenLurkin
The National Weather Service said that a severe geomagnetic storm alert was in effect Thursday night, with the northern lights visible as far south as Alabama and Northern California.
Cameras operated by PG&E near Mt. Shasta recorded auroras just after 9 p.m., and a passenger on a flight from Alaska to Washington was able to capture video of the northern lights, according to local media outlets.
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I checked last night and while it was clear, surprisingly, I didn’t see a thing.
ARGH!!!!!
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There is a website that watches for when the Aurora Borealis is active, so you can try and catch a night show.
https://www.aurorawatch.ca/content/view/13/1/
The Internet really bogged down that night nationally. I ran speed tests from my client sites in MN, IN, and GA to servers at Comcast, Google and Microsoft. They were all running at something like 10-30% of their normal speed with mediocre-to-terrible ping response. Normally I only see performance drop that much during a major DDOS attack or virus outbreak.
Saw the lights looking north over the sound in NC once.
Clouded out here in Ohio.
Friend in Idaho ditto.
Watched them for days and nights one August
I think the CMEs are colluding with the clouds or it could be the Russians. Most likely its just bad luck.
I didn’t know... very rarely is the sky clear lately.
Saw them in 1968 (I think)..in Kent, WA..step dad got us up @2am
Remember as a child (I’m 70) my father woke us up and told us to come outside. It was the Northern lights, and we lived in the middle of the Pine Barrens of South Jersey.
Extreme SW corner of South Dakota
We watched an absolutely AMAZING auroral display, for about 40 minutes, from our lower pasture, before it petered out, about 1 AM MST. Best display since last solar max.
The main arc, pulsing both brighter & dimmer, as well as higher & lower, was as much as 25-30 degrees above the trees on the not overly distant hill that formed our horizon.
Magnificent, HUGE pillars 30-45 degrees up from the horizon.. One of them may have been a S.T.E.V.E.*
Large pulsating patches of green, crawling across the sky, like a time lapse amoeba. Other stationary pale “clouds” of green pulsing like an almost dead fluorescent lamp.
At times, it seemed the whole northern sky was alive!
Even saw some almost invisible patches of dull red above the green.
* S.T.E.V.E. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STEVE
Nice!
Chamberlain of Gettysburg fame saw them while this company was pinned down during the Battle of Fredericksburg. Shelby Foote said the Rebels thought it was God celebrating their victory.
Despite the local light pollution people in central Minnesota were able to see and photograph the northern lights last night. I’m hoping for another aurora event this summer when we are at our cabin in Northern Minnesota where there is little light pollution.
Rained out in NE OK, too. I did see a Facebook photo post from western OK where they got an Aurora show.
Exactly.
I saw a great one once in CNY in 1990, and have heard of one other one there since then.
I would honestly pay someone to wake me up for one.
Predicted to be as good or even better views tonight, clouded out last night in BC Canada but hoping for a few breaks tonight. Midnight to 0200h is always best time to look, they tend to flare up when your part of the world is aligned with the sun-earth line. But 11 p.m. local time is often good enough.
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