[gse-aa] Auroral Alert

[Charles Deehr]

The Halloween series of solar events for this year began Friday evening and
lasted over the weekend.  This year's swarm is much less intense than last
year, but it should produce some aurora.  The effects of these events will
reach Earth beginning late in the evening of Nov 2nd Greenwich Time.  

This means that those of you in the US and Europe should watch the sky at
local midnight on the evening of the 1st and the 2nd, in case the
disturbance is early.  The effect of these events on the aurora is not
expected to be very large, so we do not expect the aurora to venture farther
equatorward than the Canadian and Scandinavian borders.

Dr. Charles Deehr, Prof. Emer. Phys.     Ph. 907 474 7473 Fax 907 474 7290
email cdeehr at gi.alaska.edu
The Geophysical Institute                     
University of Alaska Fairbanks
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Fairbanks, Alaska  99775-7320