Northern Lights
 

I know some have an interest. There is currently a strong storm going on which, unfortunately, hit us after day break this morning. However there is another CME on its way and so there is the possibility of another strong hit which may happen after dark. If it does and if it is stronger than the hit this morning, which it should be, then there is a fair chance of northern lights across most of the UK so anyone with clear skies should keep their eyes open.

That's just guaranteed a cloudy night in Bristol! :mad:

;)

Got this email today, out for a walk tonight then !

AuroraWatch Alert, 11:01 UT 24 Aug 2005:
VERY HIGH local activity, possible ongoing geomagnetic storm.
http://www.dcs.lancs.ac.uk/iono/aurorawatch/

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Thanks for the heads up, hedgehog

And the link Jacko

:)

So did anyone see anything , the sky last night was a strange purpley colour bit earie

Nope, but there was a bit of cloud looking north

Unfortunately it looks like both the CMEs that were up there hit us about the same time, around 10 - 11 yesterday morning and during daylight, despite the fact that it looked likely they would arrive some hours apart. By the time it was dark the storm was almost completely over.

This is about the 4th big hit this year, two arrived in daylight, one series that lasted several days hit when the whole of the UK was in cloud and one in January was visable across a lot of the country.

The display yesterday was seen as far south as 40 degrees north in the USA, where it was dark when it arrived and at 34 degrees south in Australia where it also arrived in darkness. As a guide the British Isles lie between about 50 and 60 degrees north and so the display should have been visable across the whole country.

Fingers crossed for more activity in the coming weeks.

is that the whole of the british isles or the northern portions??


Mart

If you mean the latitude for the whole of the British Isles then almost all of the British Isles except for the tip of Shetland, a few miles of Cornwall and the Channel Isles lie between 50 and 60 north, the lights yesterday were seen as far south as 40 north in the USA which in European terms takes you south of Madrid or into northern Greece for example.