Aurora tonight! Geomagnetic storm in progress

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EricTheCat

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Just a heads up, there is a moderate geomagnetic storm in progress. I can confirm aurora is visible right now from Southern Minnesota.

From https://spaceweather.com/

HIGH LATITUDE AURORA WATCH: Today's surprise geomagnetic storm, described below, is subsiding a little, but it is far from over. Solar wind conditions favor continued storminess; currently, indices are fluctuating between category G1 (Minor) and G2 (Moderate). These storm levels could produce auroras in northern-tier US states after nightfall especially during the hours around local midnight.
 
Unfortunately, I can affirm that if you look at the northern sky from southeast Texas, you can't see shit. :(
 
Unfortunately, I can affirm that if you look at the northern sky from southeast Texas, you can't see shit. :(
It would take a pretty strong display to make it down there.

From what I can see here it is fairly bright but not all that dynamic. Hopefully it starts dancing a bit more. Maybe I should play some good tunes.
 
Right after I posted that it got way better. I just came in to warm up. Right before that I could see aurora all the way to the South.

It turns out I picked the right couple days to take off to burn vacation time in order not to lose it at the end of the month.

Funny thing, I monitor the airplane "guard" frequency (121.5 Mhz AM) and once in a while I hear pilots mentioning it. Normally they use that frequency for issues.
 
not gona be visible here in middle merica we are getting the firehose rain from the gulf
 
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