Friday, March 9, 2012

Can I see the Northern Lights Tonight? (Friday Night Edition)

Here we go again, as the solar storm from earlier this week starts to fade there's another chance to see the Northern Lights, or the Aurora Borealis, tonight in Northern Illinois and Northern Iowa! To be frank, this far south there's never a "good" chance to see the great light display but even a slim chance to see Mother Nature's display is worth noting! On Thursday night the skies were lit up with a nice green tint as close as Wisconsin and Minnesota. With some luck in the Quad Cities tonight we'll get in on the action! Here's a forecast from earlier today:




And this is a product that is updated through the evening from the Space Weather Prediction Center!


To see the latest version of this forecast click on this link!
http://helios.swpc.noaa.gov/ovation/





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