NOAA has issued another geomagnetic storm watch through this weekend.
The sunspots that brought breathtaking Northern Lights to much of the U.S. earlier in May are back, which could mean more solar storms and the possibility of another aurora borealis spectacle. NOAA’s Space Weather Prediction Center has issued a Geomagnetic Storm Watch through the weekend. Experts say it’s too early to know if we’ll see another G5-level storm, the highest on the scale and the one that caused the intense Northern Lights on May 10.
So yeah, this cycle is going to prove to be interesting," Shawn Dahl, service coordinator for NOAA’s Space Weather Prediction Center, told FOX Weather. "We could certainly see the potential for more G4-level storms. I can't say G5, though, because it's so rare, right? We don't have any new measure of confidence of saying that we may have another G5 to come. But it's certainly not outside the realm of possibility.
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