The Aurora Borealis

[Coldwater]

or Northern Lights are putting on a spectacular display tonight here in New England

According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, G4 storm levels were reached Tuesday night. G5 is the highest and considered extreme.


https://img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net/tenant/amp/entityid/AA1Qg4Ds.img?w=620&h=349&m=6


Link

https://www.msn.com/en-us/weather/other/northern-lights-visible-over-massachusetts-due-to-severe-geomagnetic-storm/ar-AA1Qg6RI?ocid=BingNewsSerp

[usonian]

1. The atmosphere is experencing a solar storm.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/122894430

That is one amazing aurora.

[Celerity]

2. the pic

[MustLoveBeagles]

3. Beautiful

[TommyT139]

5. That's Massachusetts?!

Gorgeous!

I never know where to go. I'd like to see them someday.

[usonian]

7. They're in the upper atmosphere, so exact location shouldn't matter, only your latitude.

Good luck finding one or more .

Oh, and clouds ...

[Coldwater]

8. Latitude makes all the difference

but when the storm is this powerful, clear skies rule the night

[2naSalit]

4. Up in...

Maine it's been snowing but it looks like it may clear off soon. That looks amazing!

The clouds do have a weird glow to them.

[Coldwater]

9. Hopefully the skies will clear soon

especially with snow on the ground, that's next level viewing

[2naSalit]

12. Right? If it doesn't clear in the next few minutes,...

I'm not waiting up, too tired.

[2naSalit]

13. Lo and behold!

It's become windy and the clouds are thinning and there is definitely colored light behind them!

[usonian]

6. K&R

[Bayard]

10. A friend of mine down the road just sent me a couple of great shots from her porch

I didn't know we were supposed to be looking tonight here in southern Kentucky.

[Coldwater]

11. The geomagnetic storm is a powerful level 8

so, it's likely you can view the Aurora in Southern Kentucky and even further south.

[StarryNite]

14. Phoenix area, just a hint of pink if we use our phone cameras.

We can't see it with the naked eye.

[JCMach1]

15. Here even in Texas...

[electric_blue68]

16. Glorious! TY!

Sigh... I missed the extremely rare aurora in NYC a year and a half or so ago. I was so upset! Been wanting to see them for decades but have no interest in going to Alaska.

Someone in my sister's area where there is a dark area park wise took a glorious picture. She was too tired to check out her window, although she faces the wrong direction.

I keep an eye out on the aurora forecasts from Alaska University. Check them about a week or two at a time. They give a 27 day forecast which would change if an unexpected solar storm flared up.

Both my parents have seen them decades apart. My dad on a visit to Seattle for business mid '60s. My mom as a kid n NYC sleeping up on the apt building's rooftop with her family on a hot summer's night late 1920's or so.