If you plan to go looking for the northern lights, also known as the aurora borealis, this weekend, here are a few tips.
The NOAA issued the rare severe geomagnetic storm warning when a solar outburst reached Earth on Friday afternoon, hours sooner than anticipated. The effects were due to last through the weekend and possibly into next week.
The storm could produce northern lights as far south in the U.S. as Alabama and Northern California, according to NOAA. But it was hard to predict and experts stressed it would not be the dramatic curtains of color normally associated with the northern lights, but more like splashes of greenish hues.Stay away from the city. If you can get to a location that has as little artificial light as possible, that will help.
Coronal mass ejections typically see “a billion tons or so of plasma from the sun” arrive on Earth, according to the NOAA. This can result in a “major disturbance” of Earth's magnetic field and cause disruptions of navigation systems, power grids and radio communications.The last geomagnetic storm to receive a G5, or “extreme,” rating was in 2003. That storm shut down power in Sweden and damaged power transformers in South Africa, NOAA said.
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