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Keep an eye to the sky Wednesday night if you live across the far northern U.S.: The aurora borealis, or northern lights, may be making a rare appearance. 

Recent explosions on the surface of the sun have sent clouds of charged particles, known as coronal mass ejections, hurtling through the solar system, according to AccuWeather. 

"These clouds of particles are predicted to collide with Earth's magnetic field on Wednesday night into Thursday, sparking dazzling displays of the aurora," AccuWeather's Brian Lada said.

Auroras typically appear as rippling curtains of green, red or purple light.

Geomagnetic storms such as these can also affect infrastructure in near-Earth orbit and on the surface, possibly disrupting communications, the power grid, navigation, and radio and satellite operations, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said.

In this video it's stated 11pm tonight through 5am Wed. is prime

Should be good around Jim Conrad country, set an alarm, shoot us a video Jim? Sam?

My grandmother used to tell me that when she was younger in the 1930s, that they could see the northern lights from Arkansas

I always thought maybe she was full of shît or on that shotgun whisky

I usually don’t check the aurora forecast until later in the year.

The Kp is 5 now which is pretty good. Tomorrow is a 7, which is yuge!

Naturally, the sky is pissing like a race horse.


https://www.gi.alaska.edu/monitors/aurora-forecast

Heck

Won't see them out here, but we usually have a sky full of UFOs.

Oh......those.......for a minute I thought it was an intestinal problem... I was going to tell you to take some Imodium... :^) ... We don't get to see stuff like that here in KY.

We got these durn cityfried scardy cats. Karens that move out here and have they dept of electricity install those god-awful sodium fraidy-lights on telephone poles.

My father, born in 1917, told me that he had seen them once in Alabama in the 1930s. He was never one to exaggerate.

not in Texas

Even up North you gotta get out of the city light area by a few miles. But yes they are great to view. Even better with a camera that can do timed elapsed photography.

They're saying it could be spectacular, I don't think Montana has any cloud cover predicted, those Highline guys may be in for a real show. No city light pollution around Sam or Jim's place either.

I’ve seen them here in the Northern Shenandoah Valley twice. Not very spectacular, just a red curtain effect, but something to remember for certain.

Seem to recall there was a big display visible in VA during the Civil War after a Confederate victory. It was seen as a sign from Heaven in support of the Rebel cause. (I read about this, don’t remember it as I was very young at the time)

I’ve only seen them when flying off the America near the Arctic Circle off of Norway. Distracting but pretty cool.

They must be on their way over to the tunnels in Mt Shasta.

Have seen aurora/northern lights in various places around the world, from northern Canada to Norway, but the most spectacular were seen in central Montana in the late 1980s. Lived on the edge of a tiny town about 25 miles west of Lewistown then, and they covered 2/3 of the sky, with colors ranging from green to orange, and continued until at least 2:00 in the morning, which is when Eileen and I gave up watching them while lying on sleeping bags in the back yard.

Am tempted to stay up tonight, but am more tempted to set an alarm clock and see what's out there after sleeping for a few hours!

We got them fuggers out this way. Fortunately, none right in close proximity, but if I look to the northwest some, where there's some development, a lot of them folks that bought 1.5 - 5 acre lots "in the country" went and had them damn orange lights installed. We're on the edge of one of the best "Dark Skies" areas in the US too.

I have to keep the reins pulled back on the wife and her solar yard lights even.

We saw the Northern lights here in Kentucky in November of 1991 while camping during deer season. Last time I’ve seen them.

I'm not in a good location for viewing from the house.
Far enough north but on the south side of the mountain.

If they hold out till 5am I might drive up to the top of the ridge and drink my coffee, usually get that going around 4 anyway.

Battle of Fredericksburg I believe.

New Years night in the late 90's or 2000 I saw them and they were 360 degrees.