Look up! The Northern Lights may shine across Canada Friday night – The Weather Network

https://www.theweathernetwork.com/en/news/science/space/solar-storm-cme-approaching-auroras-expected-to-shine-across-canada-this-weekend

Eyes to the sky this weekend, for a chance to see the Aurora Borealis dancing across the night sky.

Overnight on Tuesday night, the Sun hurled an immense magnetic filament into space, aimed more or less directly at Earth. The eruption was captured by NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO).

The NASA/ESA Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) also tracked the resulting solar storm (aka coronal mass ejection or CME) as it expanded away from the Sun.

These views were not very dramatic, at least compared to some of the solar activity we’ve witnessed recently. However, the real dramatic views are expected to begin Friday night.

As some skywatchers in the Prairies have seen, there have already been some fairly active auroras on display this week.

According to spaceweather.com, this was due to a ‘glancing blow’ by a CME that erupted from the Sun on February 11 and sparked a minor geomagnetic storm as it swept past us Tuesday night.

NOAA’s Space Weather Prediction Center says that when this latest solar storm reaches Earth on Friday, Feb. 17, it is expected to cause a similar disturbance — a G1 (minor) geomagnetic storm — which may ramp up into a G2 (moderate) geomagnetic storm Friday night.

As shown in the map above, increased geomagnetic activity not only results in brighter aurora displays, the aurora ‘oval’ is also pushed farther south.

During a G1 geomagnetic storm, the auroras tend to be limited to northern regions of eastern Canada, although they’re often seen quite clearly from the southern Prairies and southeastern British Columbia. For a G2 geomagnetic storm, nearly the entire country has a chance to see them, as the aurora oval pushes down between the green and yellow lines on the map.

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