Polar Flares To Be Visible Tonight

ideaMUX writes "NASA's solar dynamics observatory recently detected an M-class flare hurling a coronal mass ejection (CME) into space. The CME is not fully directed toward Earth, but some of the plasma cloud may be visible in the magnetosphere tonight, causing a geomagnetic disturbance and possible aurora. NASA said M-class flares are medium-sized, and can cause brief radio blackouts that affect Earth's Polar regions. Minor radiation storms sometimes follow M-class flares."

Comments

Re:OMGZ - I can see them from here?!

[Anonymous Coward]

You better hope we never have a solar flare such that the resulting aurora is visble from Cleveland.

You're not actually serious, are you? Auroras are visible* from Cleveland about once a year, on average--more during solar max, less during solar min, like now.

*Not factoring in light pollution

Re:yuo F"ail It

[zeropointburn]

Sometimes I think that troll is a weird form of eliza trainer, trying to produce comprehensible posts based on slashdot post histories. Clearly a non-starter unless you've been drinking sterno. Alternatively, it could be some form of encoded data, posted in a public forum and cleverly disguised as an asshat. /tinfoilhat

As to the light show, wish I could see it.