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Northern lights appear over Northern California in rare event
San Francisco Chronicle / SFGate.com ^ | March 24, 2023 Updated: March 24, 2023 7:47 p.m. | Amy Graff,Β SFGATE

Posted on 03/24/2023 11:19:33 PM PDT by thecodont

Skywatchers who caught sight of the shimmery display posted images from Yreka and Lakeport and from aboard a flight from Los Angeles to Phoenix.

The northern lights are most commonly on display in the farthest reaches of the world, and people travel to places like Iceland and Greenland to see them, but according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, a geomagnetic storm made the phenomenon visible as far south as Alabama, as well as Northern California, on the night of March 23. exp-player-logo Read More

Greg Williams, president of the Shasta Astronomy Club, said that a geomagnetic storm is a fancy way to say the "sun burped."

"It threw off a little bit extra charged particles in the solar winds, and those particles interacted with the Earth’s magnetic field," Williams went on.

These geomagnetic storms drive the northern lights, and this particular event was classified as a G4 on a scale from G1 to G5. The peak was last night between 8 and 11 p.m. If you missed the lights last night in California, you're out of luck. NOAA's forecast for Friday night's aurora shows the lights appearing much farther north. Dakota Snyder photographed the Aurora Borealis on a flight from Los Angeles to Phoenix.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: California
KEYWORDS: auroraborealis; spaceweather

1 posted on 03/24/2023 11:19:33 PM PDT by thecodont
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To: thecodont

Wish there had been more advance notice!


2 posted on 03/24/2023 11:20:17 PM PDT by thecodont
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To: thecodont

Are we all going to die? πŸ˜†πŸ€—πŸ˜ŠπŸ˜πŸ˜€


3 posted on 03/25/2023 1:39:11 AM PDT by Mark17 (Retired USAF air traffic controller. Father of USAF pilot. USAF aviation runs in the family )
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To: thecodont

“Most commonly”


4 posted on 03/25/2023 3:27:41 AM PDT by Sacajaweau ( )
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To: thecodont

Lakeport Ca

5 posted on 03/25/2023 4:04:04 AM PDT by conservativeimage (Join Your State Assembly - states.americanstatenationals.org - Bring Back Constitutional Law & Order)
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To: thecodont

More here:

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6 posted on 03/25/2023 5:13:07 AM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this? πŸ˜•)
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To: thecodont

Biden needs to get right on this Withbillions of dollars into attacking the sun; the sun is obviously sending solar plasma our away in an attack on the earth


7 posted on 03/25/2023 6:34:09 AM PDT by rottweiller_inc (inter canem et lupum)
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To: thecodont

MUCH easier to see from 30,000 feet in a plane.


8 posted on 03/25/2023 8:16:48 AM PDT by ridesthemiles
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To: thecodont

Flight from LA to Phoenix?????

Yreka is at least 600 miles north of LA.


9 posted on 03/25/2023 8:17:47 AM PDT by ridesthemiles
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To: Mark17

Assuredly, at some time.


10 posted on 03/25/2023 8:48:18 AM PDT by foundedonpurpose (Praise Hashem, for his restoration of all things! It's )
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To: thecodont

...a geomagnetic storm is a fancy way to say the “sun burped.”

Uhhhhh....

Less like a “burp”; more like brandishing an M4 and sending a hail of fully-automatic gunfire into the woods, then turning and — after an uncomfortable silence — asking “Capisce?”


11 posted on 03/26/2023 12:02:52 PM PDT by HKMk23 (https://youtu.be/LTseTg48568)
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To: thecodont

Then the fourth angel poured out his bowl on the sun, and it was permitted to scorch people with fire. Thus people were scorched by the terrible heat, yet they blasphemed the name of God, who has ruling authority over these plagues, and they would not repent and give him glory.
Revelation 16:8‭-‬9 NET
https://bible.com/bible/107/rev.16.8-9.NET

Not this time.
Maybe not the next, either.
But it’s coming.

It is coming.


12 posted on 03/26/2023 12:05:50 PM PDT by HKMk23 (https://youtu.be/LTseTg48568)
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