Friday night, probably not you - 'cause you're close to a city - we have a good chance of aurora borealis (northern lights).
There's a giant fucking magnetic storm headed our way. Like, 30x the size of the planet kinda storm.
No, it's not gonna cause major problems. As far as solar storms go, this one is pretty mild. If the sun wanted to fuck us in the ass, it could do so trivially. Our magnetosphere would be nothing compared to a huge storm.
This isn't a huge storm.
But, predictions are getting the aurora close to both our latitudes on Friday at about 04:00 UTC.
Saturday's predictions aren't in.
I will go outside and look, if there are no clouds I just might see it. I have seen the aurora from here a couple times in the past over the years
Yeah, it doesn't make it down to our latitude all that often. I see it sometimes, but I'm a bit further north than you - and I have no light pollution so even the faintest aurora shows up.
I hope I remember to go check it out when its happening
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