But if the particles arrive at Earth during the daytime, there won’t be a light show, experts said. Since the ejected particles are so far away, however, scientists aren’t able to predict the exact timing. “We expect it sometime today, so it’ll be a little bit over a 50-hour transit.” “This one is kind of on the fast side,” Mr. With Earth about 92 million miles away from the sun, the commute for the ejected particles is brief, sometimes as short as 15 hours or as long as four days, Dr. The large expulsion of plasma from the sun, called a coronal mass ejection, is traveling in space at about one million to six million miles an hour. It is not expected to cause technology disruptions, the center said.īut there are unknowns associated with any magnetic storm, especially the exact timing of its arrival. The storm was classified as a G3 on a scale from G1 to G5. The prediction center issued a geomagnetic storm watch on Friday that said the storm may drive the aurora borealis, the scientific name for the northern lights, over Washington State, the upper Midwest and the Northeast on Saturday. Singer, chief scientist at the Space Weather Prediction Center at the National Weather Service, said in an interview on Saturday. “If I was in the northern tier of the United States, then I would take a look in the sky,” Howard J. On Thursday morning, the rubber band snapped, and the pent-up energy was released as a solar flare, ejecting about a billion tons of plasma gas that could result in the dazzling display known as the northern lights once it reaches Earth this weekend.īut will it even be visible on Saturday night or early Sunday morning? Continued abuse of our services will cause your IP address to be blocked indefinitely.Magnetic energy had been building up in the sun this week like a rubber band twisted into a corkscrew. Please fill out the CAPTCHA below and then click the button to indicate that you agree to these terms. If you wish to be unblocked, you must agree that you will take immediate steps to rectify this issue. If you do not understand what is causing this behavior, please contact us here. If you promise to stop (by clicking the Agree button below), we'll unblock your connection for now, but we will immediately re-block it if we detect additional bad behavior. Overusing our search engine with a very large number of searches in a very short amount of time.Using a badly configured (or badly written) browser add-on for blocking content.Running a "scraper" or "downloader" program that either does not identify itself or uses fake headers to elude detection.Using a script or add-on that scans GameFAQs for box and screen images (such as an emulator front-end), while overloading our search engine.There is no official GameFAQs app, and we do not support nor have any contact with the makers of these unofficial apps. Continued use of these apps may cause your IP to be blocked indefinitely.
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