If you look up this evening, you may be able to faintly see some auroras, following a series of plasma explosions from the sun’s corona.
NOAA’s Space Weather Prediction Center is monitoring the sun following a series of coronal mass ejections that began on Sunday. These large explosions of plasma and magnetic field cause a geomagnetic storm that, while beautiful, can cause problems for grid reliability and critical infrastructure.
On Monday, the center observed severe G4 geomagnetic storm conditions that could last until the evening. NOAA says this phenomenon that also causes the northern and southern lights may be seen as north as Northern California and as south as Alabama.
The geomagnetic storm also has the potential to cause problems for the power grid, whether that be problems with GPS accuracy or high-frequency communications at high latitudes.
