Aurora Night
Keeping fingers crossed for a possible aurora borealis sighting here in Maryland. As NOAA explains:
The solar regions that produced dramatic space weather activity in late October and early November returned to the visible side of the sun...The area known as NOAA Region 501 already produced a moderate radio blackout, R2 on the NOAA space weather scales, and spawned a severe, or G4, geomagnetic storm, which began Thursday, Nov. 20 at 2:04 a.m. EST, and is strengthening.
Finnish meteorologists, according to Reuters, are predicting "a lot of atmospheric disturbance" this weekend, possibly including aurora visibility at low latitudes.
The San Francisco Chronicle has a story on Bay Area residents startled by a "red ball of light". The National Weather Service and the Coast Guard are at odds over what it was -- Northern Lights, say the weather people. Coast Guard's chalking it up to the Leonid shower.
Best chance here would have been in October (storm's stronger first time around), but as far as I could tell our local skies were aurora-free. Maybe this time...
12:13:45 PM 
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