Aurora Alert

09.14.25 View North

The sun woke-up on the flare side of the bed overnight, unleashing a powerful X-class solar flare along with a fast Earth-directed coronal mass ejection (CME), which is currently forecast to hit our home planet within the next 24 hours.

If the CME arrives as expected and has the correct magnetic orientation to be "geoeffective," we could witness strong (G3) or even severe (G4) geomagnetic storm conditions tonight, according to the U.K. Met Office. If these conditions are reached, the northern lights might be visible as far south as Northern California and Alabama

Space weather forecasters are busy analyzing data and running models to narrow down the CME's arrival window.

Fingers-crossed for clear night skies.....