


Singer, chief scientist at the Space Weather Prediction Center at the National Weather Service, said in an interview on Saturday. “If I was in the northern tier of the United States, then I would take a look in the sky,” Howard J. On Thursday morning, the rubber band snapped, and the pent-up energy was released as a solar flare, ejecting about a billion tons of plasma gas that could result in the dazzling display known as the northern lights once it reaches Earth this weekend.īut will it even be visible on Saturday night or early Sunday morning? Magnetic energy had been building up in the sun this week like a rubber band twisted into a corkscrew.
