The best conditions to see the northern lights are on a clear night in rural areas, without light pollution from city lights.
For many, seeing the northern lights is a bucket list item.Typically, they're only ever seen in far northern parts of the globe, but this weekend people have the rare opportunity to see them from their backyard here in North Texas.From Cash in Hunt County to Gainesville in Cooke, even all the way out in Hereford near Amarillo, Texans were able to see the dazzling displays of the northern lights on Friday.
So this plasma, the charged particles, the magnet field that makes up the sun, part of it lifts off the sun and streams away into space," said Ian Cohen with the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab.Severe geomagnetic storms like this can disrupt communications, the electric power grid, navigation and satellite operations.So far, the state's power grid hasn't reported any disturbances, but across the country people are watching for any electrical issues.
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