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Fantastic Aurora Display!!!
Posted: Thu Nov 20, 2003 9:22 pm
by john697
In Western North Carolina tonight. A very bright blue and green display with a dim red background. Started around 6pm, and still some red visible as I type this (9:22). Almost directly overhead at times!
Posted: Thu Nov 20, 2003 9:41 pm
by Stormsfury
I saw some of the aurora in CHS earlier tonight as well ... (but too many darn lights around to really get a good view) .... BTW, the skies remain quite red ..
SF
Posted: Thu Nov 20, 2003 9:51 pm
by StormCrazyIowan
Yeah uh huh, and Iowa? Not a darn thing! *sniffle*
C'mon, the temps are already giving me the shaft for my birthday (nearly record high and beautiful today, 40's and cloudy tomorrow), couldn't I have at least caught a glimpse?
That's it! I'm moving!!
Posted: Thu Nov 20, 2003 10:02 pm
by Stormsfury
StormCrazyIowan wrote:Yeah uh huh, and Iowa? Not a darn thing! *sniffle*
C'mon, the temps are already giving me the shaft for my birthday (nearly record high and beautiful today, 40's and cloudy tomorrow), couldn't I have at least caught a glimpse?
That's it! I'm moving!!
Where to?
SF
Posted: Thu Nov 20, 2003 10:09 pm
by weatherlover427
Darn marine layer here, can't see a thing...
Posted: Thu Nov 20, 2003 11:50 pm
by Stormsfury
John, was this about what you saw? (This was taken in Dalton, GA)
Posted: Fri Nov 21, 2003 12:40 am
by PTrackerLA
Wow, what a beautiful picture. I wonder if we could see them this far south, I didn't even look.
Posted: Fri Nov 21, 2003 6:34 am
by john697
Yup Stormfury, thats what I saw....almost directly overhead at times.
Caught me by surprise....I was going to visit my daughter (who lives on top of a mountain), and noticed the glow in the sky. Watched for a couple of hours...very impressive show (mixed in with leftover meteors from the night before).
Posted: Fri Nov 21, 2003 8:28 am
by JCT777
Awesome pic, SF. It's weird how it was visible in the southeast and up in Vermont, but I did not see anything in southeast PA - despite clear skies.
Down here too......
Posted: Fri Nov 21, 2003 3:32 pm
by WeatherNole
It was also visible as far south as Thomasville, GA (about 30 miles north of Tallahassee). A viewer called it into to me last night. He saw a faint red cloud, off the NNW, about 20-30 degrees above the horizon. At first, I thought he was just another nut. I didn't know there were any CME's going on, but checked out good old
http://www.spaceweather.com and confirmed it.
Our station is about halfway between Tallahassee and THomasvill, but I didn't see anything.
Mike
Re: Down here too......
Posted: Fri Nov 21, 2003 7:22 pm
by Stormsfury
WeatherNole wrote:It was also visible as far south as Thomasville, GA (about 30 miles north of Tallahassee). A viewer called it into to me last night. He saw a faint red cloud, off the NNW, about 20-30 degrees above the horizon. At first, I thought he was just another nut. I didn't know there were any CME's going on, but checked out good old
http://www.spaceweather.com and confirmed it.
Our station is about halfway between Tallahassee and THomasvill, but I didn't see anything.
Mike
I saw them here just northwest of CHS as well last night ... A faint red glow with one glimmer of green intertwined within the veil ... Auroras are downright mesmerizing ...
SF
Posted: Fri Nov 21, 2003 8:00 pm
by breeze
That's what I get for retiring to bed, early? Rats!
The next few nights hold a promise for more,
though.
Thanks for that link, btw, WeatherNole!