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Source: Mashable
If you're free on Sunday night and you live within a certain range of northern latitudes, you might want to look out a window.
Meteorologists are predicting an aurora borealis, or northern lights show.
The northern lights are the result of our sun's solar storms, which emit streams of charged particles that can reach Earth. Magnetic fields from the north and south poles pull the particles into the upper or occasionally lower atmosphere, where they collide with neutral particles.
The result? A majestic, glowing sky. Oftentimes, the northern lights are only visible at higher latitudes (like in Scandinavia during the summer), but occasionally as is the case this time, apparently they'll reach lower down the northern hemisphere.
More: http://mashable.com/2017/07/15/aurora-borealis-preview-sunday/?utm_cid=hp-h-8
Link to tweet
WA state is there. It will be clear.
I'll check it out.
WhiteTara
(29,722 posts)I've seen them once and it was an amazing event. We lived in northern California at the time and it was unexpected and spectacular.
JHan
(10,173 posts)Stinky The Clown
(67,818 posts)Not blaming you for the link, but it froze, then crashed not just my browser but my whole computer.
demmiblue
(36,885 posts)Sorry for your troubles.
Stinky The Clown
(67,818 posts)I just like to let people who I KNOW are posting in good faith when a link goes awry.
Orrex
(63,224 posts)Whenever anything remotely interesting is happening in the sky, we're 100% guaranteed to have opaque cloud cover several miles thick.
Deb
(3,742 posts)We were discussing the possibility of seeing any this summer.
lunasun
(21,646 posts)Vinca
(50,303 posts)SergeStorms
(19,204 posts)I'm in upstate New York, so I'm "in the zone". It's partly cloudy right now, but hopefully it will clear up by peak viewing time. I've seen them twice before, but there's nothing like it on earth.
Thanks for posting this, or I certainly would have missed it.