Go Outside and Look at the Sky!

[Yazata]

The aurora is visible almost everywhere in the US and Canada! They are seeing it as far south as Florida and Texas!

It's all over the internet!

Unfortunately, I didn't see anything here in the SF bay area. There's clouds and lots of light pollution.

NW Wisconsin

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Scottsbluff NE

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Dallas/Fort Worth

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Longmont CO

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Abilene TX

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Central Massachusetts

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NE Oklahoma

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The scientists say they are interested in what people see, where they see it and when. They are telling people to keep the reports and photos coming in, they are being collected, mapped and collated.

The color of the aurora is useful data. Almost all the reports are of red auroras. These are the highest auroras at the very thin top of the atmosphere up in space. They want to know if anyone sees the green auroras common at higher latitudes like Alaska (excited molecular oxygen) or the rarer purple or blue auroras (excited molecular nitrogen). These latter are lower in the atmosphere and only seen in the strongest solar storms.

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[Syne]

Just looks like thin clouds here. No discernible color. Might just be clouds.

[Zinjanthropos]

Snow and rain in Niagara area. Nothing to see here. Might be an increase in ‘End is Near’ sandwich board signs today following the blood red sky view. Perhaps it’s 31/Atlas up to no good.

[C C]

Tonight, I do see an orchid-like tint to the whole sky, with one heavy, curtain-like band that clearly qualifies as aurora like.

[Yazata]

Tonight, I do see an orchid-like tint to the whole sky, with one heavy, curtain-like band that clearly qualifies as aurora like.

The NOAA space weather people did predict that it would likely happen again tonight. So yeah, what you see probably is the aurora!

They say (CME means Coronal Mass Ejection):

"Final CME arrived & passing over Earth now. Conditions generally weakening, but variable. Strong solar wind speed and periods of favorable magnetic field orientation are driving up geomagnetic storms to G1-G3; with G4 still possible tonight. Stay aware at http://spaceweather.gov "

https://x.com/NWSSWPC/status/1988793252213059680

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