CHARLOTTE — Viewers in the Charlotte area have been flooding our newsroom with photos of the Northern Lights on Friday night.
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Scientists are warning about the effects of a “severe solar storm.”
It is the first time a storm of this magnitude has happened in almost 20 years.
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Space Weather Prediction Center issued a warning for a severe geomagnetic storm for Friday evening. There could be other solar eruptions causing similar conditions through the weekend.
In the video at the top of this webpage, Chief Meteorologist John Ahrens explains more about this phenomenon.
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