G-4 Solar Storm

[TennesseeCamper]

So do you think we might see the aurora borealis yet? No obvious damage to the grid or GPS that I know of. My curiosity was peaked when I saw people posting pictures of the aurora in Pennsylvania and New Hampshire. Supposedly the might possibly be seen as far south as Alabama!

[No_0ne]

It's highly unlikely we will see anything more than a hint of color in the sky, that's about all you can expect at these latitudes ...

[Mark A]

I don't know if it was this storm or not but we had a bunch of unexplained crazy electrical issues all across our various automation networks the last few days. We've been through storms before and not had any issues so it is most likely coincidence.

 

We had a ton of controllers that were down for no reason yesterday. We came in early this morning to start sending reboot commands out and about 95% of the problems vanished over night.

 

strange...

[Garufa]

I don't know if it was this storm or not but we had a bunch of unexplained crazy electrical issues all across our various automation networks the last few days. We've been through storms before and not had any issues so it is most likely coincidence.

 

We had a ton of controllers that were down for no reason yesterday. We came in early this morning to start sending reboot commands out and about 95% of the problems vanished over night.

 

strange...

 

Just trial runs of Chinese disruptor satellites.

[No_0ne]

Just trial runs of Klingon disruptor beams.

 

FIFY

[TennesseeCamper]

Well I did look last night, but sadly no aurora! Hopefully I will see it someday even if I have visit Alaska!

[Glenn]

I looked last night but no luck, but there is an lot of light here. I have seen them in Canada. truley an amazing sigh5

[No_0ne]

I looked last night but no luck, but there is an lot of light here. I have seen them in Canada. truley an amazing sigh5

 

To see an aurora this far south you are going to have to find a very dark area.  Look into the sky on a clear night with no moon, allowing your eyes time to acclimate fully to darkness.  What you will see won't look anything like the auroras you saw in Canada, or commonly pictured in books, websites, etc., but will look more like a very diffuse "tint" to the night sky.

[Rightwinger]

Saw them here near Franklin several years ago.  Looked like a purple cloud.  Pulled over on I-840 near I-65 to look and figure out what I was seeing.  Not the curtain look we see on tv, just a blotchy cloud of purple but it was visible while driving.  Very early in the morning, was headed out to deer hunt.  But, it's possible to see em here.  Keep watching.

 

While we're on the subject, pretty neat alignment of Venus and Jupiter after sunset right now.  Worth a look.

[No_0ne]

Saw them here near Franklin several years ago.  Looked like a purple cloud.  Pulled over on I-840 near I-65 to look and figure out what I was seeing.  Not the curtain look we see on tv, just a blotchy cloud of purple but it was visible while driving.  Very early in the morning, was headed out to deer hunt.  But, it's possible to see em here.  Keep watching.

 

While we're on the subject, pretty neat alignment of Venus and Jupiter after sunset right now.  Worth a look.

 

The view of those two planets was impressive here tonight ...