Will northern lights appear in NE Ohio again tonight?

[Pelican Press 0]

Will northern lights appear in NE Ohio again tonight?

This is the hidden content, please

• Sign In
• or
• Sign Up

 (WJW) — Did you see it? Residents across Northeast Ohio got a stunning show as an aurora, or “

This is the hidden content, please

• Sign In
• or
• Sign Up

” were visible Friday night.

It’s a weather phenomenon that’s exceedingly rare in this part of the world.

This is the hidden content, please

• Sign In
• or
• Sign Up

If you missed it, or want to see it again, you may have another shot on Saturday and even Sunday night but, Northeast Ohio’s weather needs to cooperate.

For the first time since 2005, the 

This is the hidden content, please

• Sign In
• or
• Sign Up

 Space Weather Prediction Center 

This is the hidden content, please

• Sign In
• or
• Sign Up

, after spotting five coronal mass ejections pointed at Earth, expected to arrive by midday Friday, May 10, and stay through Sunday, May 12. It’s an “unusual event,” the NOAA noted.

According to

This is the hidden content, please

• Sign In
• or
• Sign Up

, clouds will make the light difficult to see see Saturday night, but there is a better chance the forecast will cooperate on Sunday if the geomagnetic storm persists.

This is the hidden content, please

• Sign In
• or
• Sign Up

This is the hidden content, please

• Sign In
• or
• Sign Up

 are scorching blasts of magnetized plasma from the sun’s corona which can cause electromagnetic disruptions on Earth, creating ribbons of multi-******** light that dance in the skies.

Several strong solar flares have been seen over the past few days from a sunspot cluster that is 16 times the diameter of Earth, according to the NOAA.

This is the hidden content, please

• Sign In
• or
• Sign Up

That cluster is so big you can see it without a telescope, Jay Reynolds, a research astronomer at 

This is the hidden content, please

• Sign In
• or
• Sign Up

. Just make sure you’re wearing your solar eclipse glasses; don’t look directly at the sun without proper protection.

There have only been three other “severe” geomagnetic storms seen in this solar cycle, which started in December 2019. The last “extreme” storm on Halloween in 2003 knocked out power in Sweden and South *******, according to the NOAA.

This is the hidden content, please

• Sign In
• or
• Sign Up

If you are hoping to catch a glimpse of the northern lights, experts say the best time to see the lights is between 10 p.m. and 2 a.m. If you don’t see anything,

This is the hidden content, please

• Sign In
• or
• Sign Up

.

This is the hidden content, please

• Sign In
• or
• Sign Up

This is the hidden content, please

• Sign In
• or
• Sign Up

aurora,weather phenomenon,Northeast Ohio
#northern #lights #Ohio #tonight

This is the hidden content, please

• Sign In
• or
• Sign Up