Northern Lights tonight 4-16-25
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Started by metmike - April 16, 2025, 10:33 p.m.

I've been meaning to start a thread on this since earlier in the week.

Tonight is the night to see the Northern Lights if you have clear skies and live in the northern half of the US.


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By metmike - April 16, 2025, 10:37 p.m.
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Solar storm brings Northern Lights in U.S. Wednesday and possibly Thursday

https://www.foxcarolina.com/2025/04/16/solar-storm-brings-northern-lights-us-wednesday-possibly-thursday/

By metmike - April 17, 2025, 12:31 a.m.
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This suggests that the storm is subsiding with no chance to see the Northern Lights tonight in this area.

https://spaceweather.com/


THE SEVERE STORM IS SUBSIDING: For much of the past 24 hours, Earth's magnetic field has been reverberating from the impact of a CME  on April 15th. It was a Cannibal CME, so it did an extra-good job sparking geomagnetic storms. For a brief time on April 16th, the storm became severe (category G4) with Northern Lights sighted as far south as France. The storm is subsiding now to category G1/G2, which could still produce high-latitude auroras on April 17th. Aurora alerts: SMS Text