WASHINGTON STATE — A strong Geomagnetic Storm Watch was issued Tuesday morning by NOAA’s Space Weather Prediction Center, which means there’s a chance to see the aurora borealis across western Washington Tuesday night.
The storm’s multiple eruptions of highly charged solar plasma and magnetic field, each a coronal mass ejection (CME), emitted from the sun on Sunday and arrives and impacts the Earth’s upper atmosphere tonight into tomorrow.
The result will be a chance to see the aurora Tuesday night into Wednesday across western Washington and even down into Oregon as well as eastward into the lower Midwest.
For best viewing, head out of the city, away from the lights and look north. Use the display of your phone to scan the sky, as our cellphone cameras usually can pick up the lights before our eyes…