Northern Lights

On this past Thursday news reports were abound about a few large solar flares that happened on March 8th.  The news stories all cited that geomagnetic storms would reach earth on March 9th and 10th.  For solar information http://spaceweather.com/ is a great website.  So with a little additional reasearch I found that the University of Alaska Fairbanks website has a northern lights perdictor http://www.gedds.alaska.edu/AuroraForecast/Default.asp?Date=20110313 I checked the forecast it mentioned that the northern lights were active and they would be visible from Minneapolis Thusrday night.

After getting home from Fly Tiers the sky was clear and not too foggy yet.  Sue and I decide to go for a drive to see if we could see the northern lights.  As we were driving north on 35E in Centerville at 11:15pm we looked up the northern lights were dancing across the sky.  We continued to drive north and every time we got to a city with lots of street lights the northern lights were not visible, but every time it got darker they were visible.  We drove to Carlos Avery WMA and parked and watched as they slowly disappeared.  So around midnight we drove back home.  We will continue to watch the northern lights forecast and hopefully see them again and get some pictures next time.