This image provided by NASA shows a solar flare, as seen in the bright flash in the lower right, captured by NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory on May 9, 2024. A severe geomagnetic storm watch has been issued for Earth starting Friday and lasting all weekend _ the first in nearly 20 years.
This image shows a solar flare, as seen in the bright flash in the lower right, captured by NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory on Thursday. A severe geomagnetic storm watch has been issued for Earth starting Friday and lasting all weekend — the first in nearly 20 years. A series of powerful solar storms could make the northern lights visible unusually far south Friday and Saturday night in Canada.
In this case, the sun produced a series of CMEs beginning Wednesday, and they are headed toward Earth, said the U.S.-based National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration .It's possible that some of these ejections will combine — increasing the magnitude of the storm. The latest storm could produce northern lights as far south in the U.S. as Alabama and Northern California, according to NOAA."As these coronal mass ejections hit, those northern lights can actually creep down to lower and lower latitudes," Cohen said.
The most intense solar storm in recorded history, in 1859, prompted auroras in central America and possibly even Hawaii.
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