The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Space Weather Prediction Center has issued G2-G3 geomagnetic storm watches for Monday night. <\/p>\n
According to the SWPC, a G3 is a strong geomagnetic storm and could bring the Northern Lights to Michigan.<\/p>\n
The SWPC said a coronal mass ejection erupted from the sun on Aug. 30 and may be traveling at over 2 million mph. It’s expected to arrive on Earth in the late afternoon.<\/p>\n
According to the SWPC, the actual CME structure and intensity won’t be known until its about 1 million miles from earth, which is about 20-50 minutes before arriving.<\/p>\n
A G3 storm often brings an estimated planetary K (Kp) index of around 7, which indicates an “active aurora.”<\/p>\n
In May 2024, when the Northern Lights were visible throughout Michigan, a rare G4 (severe) geomagnetic storm watch was issued.<\/p>\n
Watch below: See\u00a0the best photos of the Northern Lights from across metro Detroit<\/b><\/p>\n
See the best photos of the Northern Lights from across metro Detroit<\/p>\n
Watch below: Explaining how we were able to see the Northern Lights<\/b><\/p>\n
Explaining how we were able to see the Northern Lights last night, and the chance they’ll be here tonight<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Space Weather Prediction Center has issued G2-G3 geomagnetic storm watches for Monday…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":192774,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[7576,1449,7581,159,783,67,132,68,7579],"class_list":{"0":"post-192773","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-space","8":"tag-7-action-news","9":"tag-detroit","10":"tag-metro-detroit","11":"tag-science","12":"tag-space","13":"tag-united-states","14":"tag-unitedstates","15":"tag-us","16":"tag-wxyz"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115131856031653031","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192773","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=192773"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192773\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/192774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}