Aurora tonight! Geomagnetic storm in progress

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.

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pmbug said:

Unfortunately, I can affirm that if you look at the northern sky from southeast Texas, you can't see shit.

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Planet Earth is getting rocked by the biggest solar storm in decades.

Late Friday, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration declared that the Earth was experiencing a G5, or "Extreme," geomagnetic storm. This is the first G5 storm to hit the planet since 2003.

NOAA warns several waves of flares will slam into the Earth over the next few hours and days, potentially disrupting communications and navigation, triggering power outages and damaging satellites. The 2003 event briefly knocked out power in part of Sweden and damaged electrical transformers in South Africa.

NOAA's Space Weather Prediction Center says that this latest storm may induce auroras visible as far south as Northern California and Alabama.
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