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Awesome St. Patrick’s Day aurora – March 17, 2015 – from Pekka Isomursu in Finland.

A coronal mass ejection, or CME, hit Earth’s magnetic field early yesterday morning (March 17, 2015) and sparked a wonderful geomagnetic storm, the strongest geomagnetic storm of the current solar cycle – sporadically peaking at G4 intensity on the five-point scale. Before sunrise on March 17, people in several northern U.S. states including Minnesota, Wisconsin, Montana, the Dakotas and Washington reported auroras. Of the early-morning March 17 display, Colin Chatfield in Canada wrote:

I have been fortunate to take thousands of aurora pictures previously, but this was the best display I have ever seen.

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