Northern Michigan and Maine may be treated to glimpses of the northern lights on July 24 when a solar storm collides with Earth.
Geomagnetic storms may spark auroras in northern Michigan and Maine after a strange explosion on the surface of the sun.On July 21, a magnetic filament connected to sunspot AR3757 erupted, sending two plumes of dark-colored solar plasma careening into space.The plasma then formed a coronal mass ejection, which may collide with the Earth in the coming days, causing a G1 geomagnetic storm.
Thus, there is a little ambiguity, but the folks I have talked with at NASA's Moon to Mars forecasting office have agreed that the STIX observation is not consistent with the bulk of the signature,' she said.This is expected to spark a G1-class geomagnetic storm, which is the weakest form of geomagnetic storm on the NOAA Space Weather Scale. The scale ranges from G1 to G5, with G1 being the mildest and G5 being the most severe.
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