Light shows could be visible in Iowa, Colorado and Washington over the weekend. - NBCNewsMACH
. When there is an influx of charged particles during geomagnetic storms, this can supercharge the aurora’s glow, according to Terry Onsager, a physicist at the Space Weather Prediction Center.
“It’s like a big battery driving electricity through the Earth’s system,” he said. “And when that flows through the atmosphere, the atmosphere glows like a neon light.”, an outpouring of plasma from the sun’s atmosphere that was detected by NOAA on Wednesday. “This is exciting news, considering we haven’t had a decently sized Earth-directed solar storm launch for quite some time,” Skov said, adding that geomagnetic storms are less common during the current period of theOnsager said the storm could arrive Saturday morning, which means it may not be visible. But he and Skov both said that prediction could change.
“Space weather forecasting today is very much like terrestrial weather forecasting was back in the 1960s,” Skov said. In other words, the forecast may be off by as much as 12 hours in either direction.
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