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hawgrider
06-24-2015, 05:52 AM
http://shtfplan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/solar-event.jpg



Thought it couldn’t happen here? Well it just did.

A major geomagnetic storm – triggered by a solar mass coronal ejection – just took place this week on a massive scale – creating a level 4 event that produced brilliant auroras (visible in the sky over northern parts of North America and Europe) as well as significant solar-magnetic distortions in the atmosphere:

http://www.shtfplan.com/headline-news/brilliant-lights-and-a-massive-solar-storm-just-hit-earth-power-grid-and-gps-could-be-disrupted_06242015

Pauls
06-24-2015, 10:21 AM
darn! I missed it completely.
I would really like to see the northern lights again.

MI.oldguy
06-24-2015, 10:26 AM
The KP index map from spaceweather.com showed that we would have seen a beauty, but,it was cloudy.a local photographer got a nice pic I saw on the local news about 03:00 when there was a hole in the clouds.

hawgrider
06-24-2015, 10:29 AM
darn! I missed it completely.
I would really like to see the northern lights again.Ask and you shall receive- http://theoutdoortradingpost.com/showthread.php?3086-See-timelapse-video-of-northern-lights-at-Sleeping-Bear-Dunes

Pauls
06-24-2015, 10:32 AM
It's just not the same as actually being there...