


Read and watch the latest Power of 5 forecast here.

Want the latest Power of 5 weather team updates wherever you go? Download the News 5 App free now: Apple| Androidĭownload the StormShield app for weather alerts on your iOS and Android device: Apple| AndroidĬlick here to view our interactive radar. If we can get a few breaks in the clouds, we could view some incredible greens and orange colors that are typical of this awesome space weather phenomenon. So, keep an eye to the northern sky Saturday night. The two maps show the North and South poles of. This means that Northern Ohio could easily see the Northern Lights Saturday night and perhaps early Sunday morning-if the weather cooperates. The forecast lead time is the time it takes for the solar wind to travel from the L1 observation point to Earth. The result will likely be a very colorful Aurora Borealis strong enough to be visible farther south than usual including the Great Lakes states! It's expected to hit Earth's magnetic field on Saturday, producing a G-3 class geo-magnetic storm at both the north and south poles. This ball of energy is traveling toward our planet at an incredible 3.3 million miles per hour. This X-1 Solar Flare has produced a huge burst of energy called a Coronal Mass Ejection. Secondly, it was pointed almost directly at Earth. Now, sunspots are common on the surface of the sun-but this one has our attention.įirst, it was a relatively big explosion. Sunspot AR2887 blew its top, spewing a mass of energy into space. CLEVELAND - A massive explosion occurred on the surface of the sun this past Thursday.
