“What we’re expecting over the next couple of days should be more significant than what we’ve seen certainly so far,” Mike Bettwy, the operations chief at NOAA’s Space Weather Prediction Center, said at a news conference Friday morning. For people in many places, the most visible part of the storm will be the northern lights, known also as auroras. As Friday turned to Saturday in Europe, people across the continent described skies hued in a mottling of colors. Alfredo Carpineti, an astrophysicist, journalist and author in north London, saw them with his husband from the rooftop of their apartment building. “It is incredible to able to see the aurora directly from one’s own backyard,” he said.

Source: The North Africa Journal May 11, 2024 13:44 UTC