Northern Light Show - Possible

[jssailem]

This weekend promises to be an exciting.

SPECIAL STATEMENT - Northern Light Show ??

May 10 2024

NOAA has issued a “Severe G4 Magnetic Solar Storm Watch" for today into the weekend of May 11,12. This is a rare “Watch”. It is the first such alert issued by NOAA since 2005 - before we had ‘smart phones’!

G4’s are the second-strongest forms of geomagnetic storms - these type of solar storms can cause disruptions in communications of all types - satellite, radio, cell towers, electric power grids, GPS navigation, as examples. “If geomagnetic storms were hurricanes, ‘severe’ would be Category 4,” says SpaceWeather.com.

Patrons: given a clear sky forecast tonight & this weekend, look out for Aurora borealis (northern lights) - which may be visible as far south as northern California.

-Rufus

 

[JamesG161]

Those may extend South to the Gulf Coast too.

Jim...

 

[Tally Ho]

Weather girl in Chicago is saying to set my alarm for 3:00 am tomorrow morning for a chance to see the northern lights. We have rain and clouds predicted from 22:00 tonight until around 1:00, and then some clearing…

Hmmmmm….do I really want to get out of bed “for a chance….”

I have never seen the northern lights in my 62 years…so I would like to see them, and this has to be easier than getting to Alaska

Ok…I talked myself into it.

Greg

 

[Leeward Rail]

so I would like to see them, and this has to be easier than getting to Alaska

Nowhere near as fun though. Aurora Borealis included.

 

[JamesG161]

may extend South to the Gulf Coast too

Jim...

 

[JBP-PA]

I checked about 10 last night in Northern Ohio. Nothing. (Though we have a lot of light pollution here.)

 

[jssailem]

These sightings posted by my daughter from south of the 45th Parallel. Bend OR 23:06PDT

Then I got this from our SBO own RWR race crew. @Hayden Watson and @MikeHoncho
From their moorage near Deception Passage WA

It was quite a light show.

 

[MikeHoncho]

 

[Tally Ho]

I got up and out of bed at 3:00 on day 2 of the solar storm….and didn’t see anything.

Not sue if it was due to light pollution here or what. But I was disappointed... I have never seen the northern lights in my 62 years.

Greg

 

[JamesG161]

have never seen the northern lights in my 62 years.

Hope this helps

Jim...

 

[JamesG161]

and didn’t see anything.

Many people in same area as me, said the same thing as you.

Eyes are personal filters.

Camera snapshots saw all of the colors.

Jim...

 

[jssailem]

Don't feel bad Greg... There is likely still time.
I have been to Fairbanks AK in search of the lights. They did not appear. Neither here in Salem this past weekend. We drove out into the country Saturday evening well away from the city lights but no colors in the sky.

My daughter and grandson stepped outside their front door and were rewarded with the light show.

I seem to have more luck with eclipses than northern lights. But I will keep searching.

 

[Tally Ho]

Don't feel bad Greg... There is likely still time.
I have been to Fairbanks AK in search of the lights. They did not appear. Neither here in Salem this past weekend. We drove out into the country Saturday evening well away from the city lights but no colors in the sky.

My daughter and grandson stepped outside their front door and were rewarded with the light show.

I seem to have more luck with eclipses than northern lights. But I will keep searching.

I was in the path of totality for the recent solar eclipse, but alas, it was cloudy. Got dark, but I didn’t see the sun

Greg

 

[Tally Ho]

Many people in same area as me, said the same thing as you.

Eyes are personal filters.

Camera snapshots saw all of the colors.

Jim...

Maybe my eyes weren’t open as much as I thought….should have used the phone camera.

Greg