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08/23/2005: "Be Alert For Auroras Tuesday & Wednesday"

Lif Cory Strand -former property owner in San Juan County and now a Research Associate, Southwest Center for Resource Analysis at Western New Mexico University, has sent us news from Space Weather that a "Big sunspot 798 exploded twice yesterday, August 22nd, and hurled a pair of coronal mass ejections apparently toward Earth. Geomagnetic storms are possible when the clouds arrive. Sky watchers should be alert for auroras during the nights of August 23rd and 24th. High latitudes are favored: e.g., Canada, Alaska and northern-tier US states from Washington to Maine." According to Strand there is some possibility that an aurora may be visible for the next two nights.