PSA: You might want to look up at the sky on Sunday night

[demmiblue]

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

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[MFM008]

1. Hey

WA state is there. It will be clear.
I'll check it out.

[WhiteTara]

2. Too bad for me. I live below the red line.

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]

3. I just have to..

[Stinky The Clown]

4. Thanks for the info. I am a maybe. But your link crashed my whole computer. ARGH

Not blaming you for the link, but it froze, then crashed not just my browser but my whole computer.

[demmiblue]

9. Hunh... I have never had a problem with that website.

Sorry for your troubles.

[Stinky The Clown]

10. No worries. It happens sometimes.

I just like to let people who I KNOW are posting in good faith when a link goes awry.

[Orrex]

5. My region has an unusual atmospheric feature

Whenever anything remotely interesting is happening in the sky, we're 100% guaranteed to have opaque cloud cover several miles thick.

[Deb]

6. Thanks!!!

We were discussing the possibility of seeing any this summer.

[lunasun]

7. why thank you so much . I am in the right lines but prediction is partly cloudy for the area

[Vinca]

8. Thanks for posting. I'll be looking for it!

[SergeStorms]

11. Great!

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.