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Minor Magnetic Storm Watch Issued - Northern Lights Show Possible

                        Minor Magnetic Storm Watch Issued - Northern Lights Show Possible

Strong CMEs can sometimes cause trouble for satellites and create problems with electrical grids by inducing currents as the CME cloud interacts with the magnetic field that surrounds the earth. It is this disturbance of the Earth's magnetic field that causes the Northern Lights. NOAA indicates that weak power grid fluctuations may occur.

NOAA estimates the CME might produce a Kp number of 5, but that's never fully known until it hits Earth.

I can't wait to get a shot this time around. We could see faint pinks and orange up here in Minnesota the last time we had a huge solar event.

I can't wait and I hope this time around, mother nature cooperates!