'Severe' solar storm could trigger Northern Lights as far south as Alabama Friday night

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NOAA upped the Geomagnetic Storm Watch from Moderate to Severe for Friday through Sunday. This is the first Severe Watch in 19 years. That could grace the northern tier skies with auroras but also trigger GPS problems, hamper satellite communication and black out high-frequency radio.

The sun is crackling with sunspot energy, and two particular have roared to life. NOAA has upgraded a geomagnetic solar storm watch from a level 3 to a level 4 on Thursday as several solar flares hurtle toward Earth and are expected to combine. That could grace the northern tier skies with brilliant auroras but also trigger GPS problems, hamper satellite communication, and cause blackouts of high-frequency radio."Watches at this level are very rare," NOAA stated in the watch.

And that gives us about 18 hours of warning, maybe 24 hours of warning, before those particles actually get to Earth and start messing with Earth's magnetic field." SOLAR SUPERSTORM COULD ‘WIPE OUT THE INTERNET’ FOR WEEKS OR MONTHS, SCIENTIST SAYSNOAA warns of a wide area blackout of high frequency radio communications for hours.

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