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| From @RyanHanrahan this evening in CT |
The coronal mass ejection from Tuesday's X-class solar flare slammed into Earth's magnetic field hours ago, triggering a severe geomagnetic storm, and the Aurora Borealis ("Northern Lights") have already been sighted this evening as far south as the Bahamas! If you live in Oklahoma and want to see this tremendous atmospheric wonder, go outside and look to the north when it gets dark!
The geomagnetic storm is likely to last all night long, with "sub-storms" of varying intensity shifting auroras all over the map.
You can view reader-submitted aurora photos from this evening in Europe and North America here at SpaceWeather.com, my Spaceweather/Aurora Twitter feed, or the below Twitter feed.
Tweets by AuroraNotify
How To Find The Ideal Location For Northern Lights Photography. An 𝕏 Thread by @hunterhurleywx. (Link to full thread in case tweets don't embed properly)
Starting off, we're going to use a Light Pollution Map to identify your current location, and where you may need to go to get out of light polluted areas.
— Hunter Hurley (@hunterhurleywx) October 9, 2024
- https://t.co/BL2bhKVuRs
For me, since I live in the Kansas City metropolitan area, I would want to go northeast to get… pic.twitter.com/9Xi0yOIoIK
If you're having trouble finding a spot, you can use Google Maps street viewer to make finding locations a little more helpful. I've used it dozens of times to mark flat terrain with little to no northward obstructions.
— Hunter Hurley (@hunterhurleywx) October 9, 2024
(4/5) pic.twitter.com/dGizPFehwt
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