Last night Michigan was treated to an amazing show of Northern Lights as the skies exploded in red, green, white and even blues and yellows of the best display of the Aurora Borealis in years. Our Michigan Northern Lights Log and Flickr group lit up with photos and reports.
There were places you would expect – Marquette, the Keweenaw Peninsula, Escanaba – but also reports from literally EVERYWHERE in Michigan: Bath, Bellaire, Big Rapids, Blanchard, Clare, Charlotte, Charlevoix, Clark Lake, Coldwater Lake, East Leland,
Frankfort, Fostoria, Grand Rapids, Jackson, Lapeer, Leland, Leelanau County, Lenawee County, Mecosta, Mikado, Mulliken, Ottawa County, Onsted, Pontiac, Petoskey, Reading, Saginaw, Stockbridge, Tecumseh, Traverse City, Unionville, Whitehall & White Lake. People even checked in with reports from Pittsburgh, Indiana & Ohio.People at southerly latitudes in the U.S. and elsehwere across the globe are reporting a fantastic display of northern lights seen during the night of October 24, 2011.
The northern lights – also called an aurora borealis – occurred after a coronal mass ejection (CME) from the sun struck Earth yesterday at approximately 1800 UT (2:00 pm CDT) on October 24. According to spaceweather.com:
The impact strongly compressed Earth’s magnetic field, directly exposing geosynchronous satellites to solar wind plasma, and sparked an intense geomagnetic storm. As night fell over North America, auroras spilled across the Canadian border into the contiguous United States.The phenomenon known as the northern lights, or the aurora borealis, made a rare appearance as far south as Georgia Monday evening, according to WSAZ in Huntington, W.Va., and other news organizations.
There were places you would expect – Marquette, the Keweenaw Peninsula, Escanaba – but also reports from literally EVERYWHERE in Michigan: Bath, Bellaire, Big Rapids, Blanchard, Clare, Charlotte, Charlevoix, Clark Lake, Coldwater Lake, East Leland,
Frankfort, Fostoria, Grand Rapids, Jackson, Lapeer, Leland, Leelanau County, Lenawee County, Mecosta, Mikado, Mulliken, Ottawa County, Onsted, Pontiac, Petoskey, Reading, Saginaw, Stockbridge, Tecumseh, Traverse City, Unionville, Whitehall & White Lake. People even checked in with reports from Pittsburgh, Indiana & Ohio.People at southerly latitudes in the U.S. and elsehwere across the globe are reporting a fantastic display of northern lights seen during the night of October 24, 2011.
The northern lights – also called an aurora borealis – occurred after a coronal mass ejection (CME) from the sun struck Earth yesterday at approximately 1800 UT (2:00 pm CDT) on October 24. According to spaceweather.com:
The impact strongly compressed Earth’s magnetic field, directly exposing geosynchronous satellites to solar wind plasma, and sparked an intense geomagnetic storm. As night fell over North America, auroras spilled across the Canadian border into the contiguous United States.The phenomenon known as the northern lights, or the aurora borealis, made a rare appearance as far south as Georgia Monday evening, according to WSAZ in Huntington, W.Va., and other news organizations.
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