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The Carrington Event was named after Richard Carrington, an English astronomer who observed the irregular sun activity [5] that occurred during the Carrington Event. The intensity of the storm brought the visibility of the aurora to lower latitudes, and it was reportedly seen in places such as Florida and the Caribbean. Ionospheric storms can ...
An aurora is a natural phenomenon. A natural phenomenon is an observable event which is not man-made. Examples include: sunrise , weather , fog , thunder , tornadoes ; biological processes , decomposition , germination ; physical processes , wave propagation , erosion ; tidal flow , and natural disasters such as electromagnetic pulses ...
An aurora [a] (pl. aurorae or auroras), [b] also commonly known as the northern lights (aurora borealis) or southern lights (aurora australis), [c] is a natural light display in Earth's sky, predominantly seen in high-latitude regions (around the Arctic and Antarctic). Auroras display dynamic patterns of brilliant lights that appear as curtains ...
The map illustrates the predicted intensity of the aurora borealis over North America with a line showing how far south the lights could be seen on the northern horizon.
The aurora borealis was visible as far south as Florida on Thursday. Photos show the sky lit up in red and purple, even in some brightly-lit areas like New York City and Chicago .
Forecast maps show that states as far south as Massachusetts in the Northeast and Illinois and Iowa in the Midwest may be in viewing range. Aurora forecast for Friday, Oct. 4. (NOAA)
A keogram showing the plot based on the marked slice of the images taken by the camera of the auroral display above. A keogram ("keo" from "Keoeeit" – Inuit word for "Aurora Borealis") is a way of displaying the intensity of an auroral display, taken from a narrow part of a round screen recorded by a camera, more specifically and ideally in practice a "whole sky camera". [1]
NWS maps predicting the intensity and location of the northern lights Saturday and Sunday show the aurora will be visible in mid to northern Michigan and the Upper Peninsula.