Northern Lights Seen Across Southern U.S.

[LuvNewcastle]

http://gma.yahoo.com/blogs/abc-blogs/northern-lights-seen-across-southeast-u-054052417.html

Red and pink streaks filled the sky across parts of the country after Earth’s magnetic field was hit by a coronal mass ejection, enabling the Northern Lights to be seen across the southeastern part of the United States.

The ejection hit on Monday at approximately 2 p.m. ET and was seen across Arkansas, Tennessee, northern Alabama, northern Mississippi and North Carolina.

The Northern Lights, also known as Aurora Borealis, occurs when energy particles from the sun interact with the earth’s magnetic field. Though the particles were emitted from the sun on Saturday, they only hit earth’s atmosphere Monday night.

The National Weather Service Space Weather Prediction Center said that coronal mass ejection arrived approximately eight hours earlier than model guidance suggested.

[elocs]

1. Evidently I'll have to move south to see the Northern Lights

because living in Wisconsin for over 50 years I have never seen them once.

[Warpy]

3. We should have seen them here in northern NM

but were socked in with clouds. Happens every meteor shower, too.

If there's any sort of sky show, you can bet the desert will be cloudy.

It wouldn't be so bad if they'd let loose with some rain. Or even snow. We'll take anything we can get.

[Odin2005]

5. Yup, pisses me off!

I havene't seen a good Aurora here in Fargo in YEARS.

[zalinda]

4. I lived in northern Wisconsin for a year

and saw them about 5 or 6 times. Beautiful.

zalinda

[MineralMan]

2. Naturally, the skies were cloudy in Minnesota where I am.

Another opportunity missed.