There's the potential to see an aurora as far south as Alabama to northern California.
Share on email has reached Earth and is expected to continue through the weekend, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Space Weather Prediction CenterThe solar storm could potentially disrupt communications, the electric power grid, and navigation, radio and satellite operations, the prediction center said.CMEs have the potential to harm satellites, impact infrastructure and disrupt communications.
"This is an unusual and potentially historic event," Clinton Wallace, NOAA's Space Weather Prediction Center director, said in a news release.NOAA predicts the aurora could be seen for much of the northern half of the country "as far south as Alabama to Northern California."bordering Canada should have a good chance of seeing the aurora borealis, Bill Murtagh, program coordinator at the SWPC, told Axios' Rebecca Falconer Thursday.
Northern Montana, Minnesota, Wisconsin and the majority of North Dakota appear to have the best chances to see it, per SWPC'sSpace Weather Prediction Center"If the geomagnetic field is active, then the aurora will be brighter and further from the poles. Geomagnetic activity is driven by solar activity and solar coronal holes and thus it waxes and wanes with time.
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