{"id":3394,"date":"2012-06-21T18:15:44","date_gmt":"2012-06-21T08:15:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/?p=3394"},"modified":"2012-06-21T18:15:44","modified_gmt":"2012-06-21T08:15:44","slug":"low-latitude-auroras","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/2012\/06\/low-latitude-auroras-3394.html","title":{"rendered":"Low Latitude Auroras"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Northern Lights have just been seen as far south as Iowa, Nebraska and Maryland in the United States which, relative to Europe, are about as far South as southern Spain and the Mediterranean<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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A double CME from a sunspot on Saturday caused auroras like the photograph above from South Dakota (more at Daily Mail<\/a>). And the one below is from Victoria, Australia (more at Universe Today<\/a>). Truly unusual, but nothing compared to how widespread auroras were during the Carrington Event<\/a>. Any time you see auroras somewhere that doesn’t usually get them – your power grid could be failing. Pretty skies, scary consequences.<\/p>\n

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The Northern Lights have just been seen as far south as Iowa, Nebraska and Maryland in the United States which, relative to Europe, are about as far South as southern Spain and the Mediterranean.<\/p>\n

A double CME from a sunspot on Saturday caused auroras like the photograph above from South Dakota (more at Daily Mail). And the one below is from Victoria, Australia (more at Universe Today). Truly unusual, but nothing compared to how widespread auroras were during the Carrington Event. Any time you see auroras somewhere that doesn’t usually get them – your power grid could be failing. Pretty skies, scary consequences.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[263,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coronal-mass-ejection","category-sunspots"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3394","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3394"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3394\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3402,"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3394\/revisions\/3402"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}