Strong auroras this evening

[PakledHostage]

Currentspace weather conditions, as given by NOAA POES site. Red indicates a 100% chance of seeing auroras. It is forecast to increase in intensity over the next few hours.

[LordFerret]

500 miles from the view line, and overcast.

[Tommygun]

If an aurora forms big enough to be seen from the central coast of California, it will probably fry all the electronics in the world and send us back to the 19th century.

.....or cause triffids, because that's how you get triffids.

So PakledHostage, post pictures before we all go blind.

Edited December 22, 2014 by Tommygun

[dharak1]

I think the line in California is part of the legend for the map I saw that and was surprised too.

[PakledHostage]

So PakledHostage, post pictures before we all go blind.

Sorry, can't. It petered out before it rotated around to my part of southern Canada (BC). You can see the z component of the local magnetic field direction flip from negative to positive in the top plot (red line) of ACE data in the image below. It happened about the time that I posted the POES forecast above. That's effectively a light switch...

Edited December 22, 2014 by PakledHostage