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Aurorae were visible Monday across the U.S. Midwest and into the Deep South
October 25, 2011 | 9
Storm chaser Brian Emfinger caught an unbelievable auroral show in Ozark, Ark. He even made a time-lapse movie of the phenomenon, although encountering the northern lights in the South understandably took him out of his photographic comfort zone....[More]
The northern lights may have been visible all the way to the southern U.S., but they were downright spectacular at higher latitudes. Kevin Dempsey of Ojibway Nation of Saugeen, a small community in northern Ontario, snapped this vibrant photo of Monday's aurora....[More]
This shot of rhubarb-colored streaks stretching out from a clump of trees was just one of several auroral photos snapped by Kevin Dempsey of Ojibway Nation of Saugeen, Ontario.
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Gerry Buckel photographed the green glow of Monday's aurora over the Michigan horizon. "The northern lights were visible over Fostoria, Mich., for the first time in years," Buckel wrote on Flickr ....[More]
David St. Louis snapped this shot of the multicolored aurora from his front yard in Elmira, Ontario.
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Another shot from David St. Louis highlights the reddish-purple auroral glow.
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The northern lights produced a faint purple streak over college town Madison, Wis., Monday, as documented by resident William Prost.
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A hazy arc of purple hovers over a Madison, Wis., treetop in this photo by William Prost.
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Phil Dubois snapped this photo outside Fort Kent, Maine, near the Canadian border. "The northern lights are not usually visible here," Dubois says....[More]
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9 Comments
Add CommentThese are pretty pictures and a nice report of the CME effects reported by the public - what's missing is an assessment of the impact of this storm and our technological management responses.
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisWe've been reading about the risk of catastrophic CME events wiping out our satellite and power transmission infrastructure - with this recent event, are we at imminent risk of more devastating effects?
I have similar photos I took on September 12, 2000.(Redroof and Houslights) There are rainbows (3) and a fourth fading streak against the red sky. I used a Sony Mavica-floppy disk camera. Not like the multicolored ones here. As minutes went bye the color red appeared as if the horizon was ablaze. I could post it here if I knew where. Missed at least 3 minutes of the ever changing panorama because I ran out of floppy disks and had to run back to my apartment to get more. I wish I could share it here, but I don't know where to up-load. The pictures were taken in Rohnert Park, Sonoma County, CA
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisBeautiful images. Does anyone know why the lights were visible so far south this time ?
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisNo-where in this very shallow presentation of this CME Scientific Event is there any discourse on the Massive Global Warming affect of this and many other CME. There could have been a Trillion-trillion Kilowatts of Solar heat energy BTU's added to Earth's atmosphere.
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisBut no, let's focus on 0.001% Human cause and ignor the 99.999% Solar input with it's occasional mega-bursts of CME.. Duck, - here comes another one...!!!
Having been stationed in the Arctic, the lights are AMAZING!
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisUp there, they are so close you can "hear" them. They make the hair on your neck stand up!
Really.
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Very good Eddy,, use a term for power and talk about energy.
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisYes, that makes sense... especially if you consider the yearly heat additions from Santa's sleigh as it zooms faster than the speed of light to hit all the homes in one night
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisHold onto your fantasies Eddie... apparently they (and perhaps some kind of payment from the oil industry?) are all you have.
Nice images, although other than the one taken in AR all the others are from Northern states...
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisI did turn to the local ABC affiliate TV station, I think it was on Mon., & was greeted with a display screen with a picture of a satellite dish & a message something like 'problem with service provider'. I wondered at the time whether it could be the result of some CME activity (I wasn't otherwise aware of any). Could be totally a unrelated issue, however, as I didn't encounter problems with any of the other 2,000 channels...
Sorry - I just noticed the date of this article. Never mind...
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