Northern US Solar Storm

[Fly_Southwest]

My cousin said she saw a great view from ICT-ORD, must look really cool from there!

[MD11Forever]

Looks like Canada gets it tonight...


SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE QUAD CITIES IA IL
1115 PM CST MON NOV 8 2004

IAZ040>042-051>054-063>068-076>078-087>089-098-099-ILZ001-002-007-
009-015>018-024>026-034-035-MOZ009-010-090800-
BENTON IA-BUCHANAN IA-BUREAU IL-CARROLL IL-CEDAR IA-CLARK MO-
CLINTON IA-DELAWARE IA-DES MOINES IA-DUBUQUE IA-HANCOCK IL-
HENDERSON IL-HENRY IA-HENRY IL-IOWA IA-JACKSON IA-JEFFERSON IA-
JO DAVIESS IL-JOHNSON IA-JONES IA-KEOKUK IA-LEE IA-LINN IA-LOUISA IA-
MCDONOUGH IL-MERCER IL-MUSCATINE IA-PUTNAM IL-ROCK ISLAND IL-
SCOTLAND MO-SCOTT IA-STEPHENSON IL-VAN BUREN IA-WARREN IL-
WASHINGTON IA-WHITESIDE IL-
1115 PM CST MON NOV 8 2004

...NORTHERN LIGHTS OCCURRING WELL TO THE NORTH...

A SECOND SOLAR FLARE...WHICH ERUPTED ON SUNDAY...WILL CONTINUE TO IMPACT
THE EARTHS MAGNETIC FIELD OVERNIGHT THROUGH TUESDAY. LATEST DATA AND
REPORTS INDICATE THE AURORA BOREALIS HAS SHIFTED WELL NORTH TO ALONG THE
U.S...CANADIAN BORDER AND WE WILL LIKELY NOT SEE IT TONIGHT. WE MAY HAVE
ANOTHER CHANCE AT SEEING THE NORTHERN LIGHTS ON TUESDAY NIGHT.

FOR MORE INFORMATION VISIT NOAA'S SPACE WEATHER NOW WEB SITE AT
HTTP://WWW.SEC.NOAA.GOV (ALL LOWER CASE).

[assghanistan]

damn, i wish i was in montana now. the best lights ive seen was when we were flying from msp-fca. pitch dark outside, and got a sweet view from 35000 over central montana.

[ASpilot2be]

I see a whole lot of meteors .............................................................wait, those are snowflakes

[Airbus_A320]

Don't see anything here...

[MD11Forever]

Ok, new solar storm just starting up. Activity increasing...

http://www.sec.noaa.gov/rt_plots/kp_3d.html

And I have clouds right now...but they will be gone in an hour or two if the forecast holds.

[chrisburns]

Ryan saw them from his flight from MSP-PVD

[NWAirlinkCRJ@ERI]

Nothing here in NJ...Pete, probably nothing in PA as well.

Surprising...maybe it was more towards the central and western parts of the country.
Spaceweather.com sez:
"At its peak, the storm produced Northern Lights as far south as Oklahoma and California in the United States".
So it must be a east/west thing rather than north/south.
Keep your eyes peeled tonight too, as another salvo arrives from the sun and should also cause a solar storm. If I see anything tonight I will post it here...

I'll keep my eyes peeled but I really highly doubt seeing anything this far south!

-Pete

[MD11Forever]

Nothing here in NJ...Pete, probably nothing in PA as well.

Surprising...maybe it was more towards the central and western parts of the country.
Spaceweather.com sez:
"At its peak, the storm produced Northern Lights as far south as Oklahoma and California in the United States".
So it must be a east/west thing rather than north/south.
Keep your eyes peeled tonight too, as another salvo arrives from the sun and should also cause a solar storm. If I see anything tonight I will post it here...

[indian airlines]

Nothing here in NJ...Pete, probably nothing in PA as well.

[NWAirlinkCRJ@ERI]

GOD I WISH I WAS BACK HOME!!!!!

Very few street lights in my neighborhood!!!!

It would have been an amazing show!

DAMN YOU FLORIDA!!!!!!!!!!!



-Pete

[slate]

I believe they are called Meteorite once they enter the earths atmosphere alex...


-Adam

They are not meteorites unless they hit the ground, in the atmosphere they are meteors.

The aurora have a nice green hue here right now... cool looking stuff!

[MD11Forever]

wow, i went outside to look and saw some meteor's. I see something like green lights and red to that effect? northern lights?

Alex

Yes. You would be seeing shimmering green and red lights, mostly to the north of your location.
Lotsa meteors out there too.
And Adam, they are meteors until they actually hit the earth's surface. From that point on they become meteorites.

I believe they are called Meteorite once they enter the earths atmosphere alex...

Keep lookin for those glowing lights :P

-Adam

[ATrude777]

wow, i went outside to look and saw some meteor's. I see something like green lights and red to that effect? northern lights?

Alex