Frigid temperatures this weekend prompt cold weather advisories

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Keep an eye on the northern night sky. The northern lights may flare the next two nights.

NASA instruments have identified multiple solar flares shooting out directly toward Earth. This explosion is headed directly toward Earth. 

This SOHO coronagraph movie shows a halo cloud expanding in our direction moving at least 1.8 million mph!

 (CMEs) can blast Earth’s magnetosphere with solar energy and excite different gasses like nitrogen and oxygen. 

The result can be vivid auroras in the nighttime sky. Radio blackouts have already occurred this week. 

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Space Weather Prediction Center

 could hit the Earth Thursday night into early Friday morning. 

So keep an eye out for possible northern lights especially Thursday night into early Friday!

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Coronal mass ejections can blast Earth’s magnetosphere with solar energy and excite different gasses like nitrogen and oxygen. The result can be vivid auroras in the nighttime sky. Keep an eye on the northern night sky the next two nights. 

Solar storms may bring northern lights, especially Thursday night

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