Northern Lights coming South....

[kadee79]

At least further south than normal....

The Northern Lights are going south this weekend.

A geomagnetic storm, caused by a cloud of charged particles ejected from the sun, may bring the aurora borealis as far south as Iowa, Colorado and Washington on Saturday, as these particles bombard Earth, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Space Weather Prediction Center.

"If the storm is oriented properly, we could have a chance for auroras for several days after impact," said Tamitha Skov, a space weather scientist based in Los Angeles.

www.msn.com/en-us/weather/topstories/solar-storm-heading-to-earth-may-bring-northern-lights-far-south-heres-how-to-see-the-auroras/ar-BBV79LJ?ocid=spartandhp

[sesfw]

I would love to see them …….

Unfortunately I live too far south

Maybe  few remnants will come our way.

[weltschmerz]

I saw them when I was spending a weekend at Lac Memphrimagog, near the Vermont border.
I thought I was hallucinating.
It was stunning. Curtains of red and green shimmering across the sky.
Just beautiful. Hopefully, I'll see them again this weekend.

[Tennesseer]

Saw them once in Connecticut driving home from work on an unlit highway back in the winter of 76, 77, or 78. I stopped on the side of the highway and stopped two of my co-workers who were behind me and the three of us watched it. Just the green color though.

[Cheesy FL-Vol]

We saw them fairly regularly where I grew up in WI. In my opinion it is the most goose-bumpy, mind-blowingly beautiful natural phenomenon. The aurora borealis is on MY bucket list to take DH to see.

[alabamagal]

My parents have taken 2 trips to Alaska in the winter to see the northern lights and never saw them. Second trip they got just a hint of them via camera but couldn’t see them with naked eye🙁.

And while they are “heading south” I doubt they will make it to south Florida where they live.

[irishpad]

I grew up and currently live in northern Minnesota so I have seen the northern lights a lot.

When I was 24, I was on a retreat at a monastery just north of New Orleans across lake Pontchartrain to the north.   When the monks would go to the church for morning/evening prayer, they would line up in the monastery starting with the Abbot and then all the monks following with me and another guy at the end, go outside under a covered sidewalk (lots of rainy days down there.)  Sidewalks were bordered by a short row of hedges.    Well, one evening, we leave the monastery for the church, it is dark already.   As we are walking, suddenly the line stops, then the Abbot and several monks jump over the hedges out on to the lawn and all are looking up in the sky.  I also go out and look up and think "oh, the northern lights, cool but why are these guys going nuts."  The next day in the paper I read that it was the first time in over 100 years they had appeared down there.   

[Tennesseer]

Mar 24, 2019 20:56:58 GMT -5 irishpad said:

I grew up and currently live in northern Minnesota so I have seen the northern lights a lot.

When I was 24, I was on a retreat at a monastery just north of New Orleans across lake Pontchartrain to the north.   When the monks would go to the church for morning/evening prayer, they would line up in the monastery starting with the Abbot and then all the monks following with me and another guy at the end, go outside under a covered sidewalk (lots of rainy days down there.)  Sidewalks were bordered by a short row of hedges.    Well, on evening, we leave the monastery for the church, it is dark already.   As we are walking, suddenly the line stops, then the Abbot and several monks jump over the hedges out on to the lawn and all are looking up in the sky.  I also go out and look up and think "oh, the northern lights, cool but why are these guys going nuts."  The next day in the paper I read that it was the first time in over 100 years they had appeared down there.   

Irishpad-hows the Red river? Any serious projected flooding this spring?

[irishpad]

Tenn - latest prediction is major flood levels with like a 5% chance of record levels.  The city where I live now had record levels 10 years ago but much more protected now.   The last 10 days and prediction for the next 2 weeks is a gradual thaw so that is good news for us.   As you know, this is a weird area:  the river flows north (so the water is flowing into areas that are still frozen) and the "valley" is a 60 mile wide area that is flat as a pancake so easy to have a lot of overland flooding.   

[Tennesseer]

Mar 24, 2019 21:48:02 GMT -5 irishpad said:

Tenn - latest prediction is major flood levels with like a 5% chance of record levels.  The city where I live now had record levels 10 years ago but much more protected now.   The last 10 days and prediction for the next 2 weeks is a gradual thaw so that is good news for us.   As you know, this is a weird area:  the river flows north (so the water is flowing into areas that are still frozen) and the "valley" is a 60 mile wide area that is flat as a pancake so easy to have a lot of overland flooding.   

Good to hear not too bad in your area. The Mississippi River is high in our area but in no danger for the Tennessee side as we are up on a bluff (Bluff City nickname). If it rises even higher I will post pics.