There was a huge eruption on the Sun on Sunday (appropriate timing, no?) and the plasma from that blast is headed straight for us. Scientists say this will create some spectacular northern lights, and maybe not just in Canada and Alaska:
Views of aurorae are usually associated with Canada and Alaska, but even skywatchers in the northern U.S. mainland are being told they can look toward the north Tuesday and Wednesday evenings for rippling “curtains” of green and red light.
I, for one, will be out tonight looking north. I spent a year in Thule, Greenland, 750 miles from the North Pole, and never saw an aurora borealis up there. I did see one as I was flying from Thule to New York, though, over Canada. Old-timers told me Thule was too FAR north for northern lights. Not sure that’s true, but that’s what I was told.
Anyway, maybe tonight.
