And this is cnn glows captioning brought to you by, feel away, optimum enhanced calming for cats. If your cats springs outside the litter box, fights with other cats were scratches the furniture, they could be telling you theyre stressed to help them feel more calm, try feel away. Optimum hello, and welcome to have you as here in the the and Around The World, im indicating kd in atlanta. Welcome to this Special Edition of scene and user we begin this out with a powerful Geomagnetic Storm happening right now, the solar storm is classified fired as extreme level five out of five. It hasnt got to this level in more than 20 years. And it is causing the northern and Southern Leinz two dazzle many places that rarely, if ever see them, take a look at this scene here in atlanta, georgia, in the southern us. A short time ago. And most of the midwest and even Northern California have high chances of seeing the abroad this guys over the uk and ireland lit up with vivid colors earlier friday night. Parts of europe and asia likely to have another chance to view the lights saturday in the southern hemisphere, the Aurora Australis was spotted over new zealand, as well as argentina and it all started when the sun erupted with a series of solar flares whats known as Coronal Mass Ejections. Launching particles directly at the earth well have more on that in a moment. While the lights are expected to peak in the coming hours romel likely continue throughout the weekend. The Biden Administration says its closely tracking the possible impacts of the solo strong as it could disrupt communications, satellites, and Power Stations electrical utilities im making preparations just in case with cnns chat, myers is more on the historic solar storm and where you might see the auroras right . So everybody wants to know whether its going to be visible, where i am, right . It will be visible across most of North America, maybe not all the way down to the gulf coast, but itll be close. And its not a oneday event. So even if you have cloud cover, two night, you will still be able to see it tomorrow because theres more than one coronal mass ejection on the way. So what is it . Well, its just a ball of plasma thats being shot at the earth. These things happen all the time, but rarely do we have them that goes straight at the earth. Think about how big threedimensional could be go that way so, to the back could go depends on where the sunspot is. Well, we know this is coming toward the earth because of what we call the halo effect. When you see the Cloud Mass Kind of come out of this. This is the sun right here. This is the sun being blocked by a disk. But when you see the coronal mass ejection come this way its like looking at Somebody Blowing Smoke Ring at you, you know, its coming and you know, its on its way. Thats the same idea, same kind of smoke ring that were seeing. So yes, we have more than one still coming. So overnight, a big ones still landing on the earths atmosphere. And we are still seeing that really bright colorful cloud all the way around. On the globe. Typically, the only place youre not seeing it is where its sunny, where the sun is already come up and you cant see it, but it was very, very spectacular somewhere around i would say maybe one z, one zulu time greenwich mean time somewhere around 9 00 okay. Not quite 9 00 on the east coast of the us, but it was still light. We couldnt see it in North America. But another one and then another one and another one. This is still going to be going for quite some time. This is what the solar wind looks like and i want you to think of it like a, like the seismograph in when youre looking in california and you see the earth shake. Well, the sun wasnt shaking at all. The solar wind was doing just fine, being nice and flat but then all of a sudden around two, 30 or two 40 this afternoon, the earth began to shake, literally. And so did the solar wind. And it came in very, very quickly, get this number around your brain. 1. 6 million Miles Per Hour its how fast this solar wind is coming. Auroras seen farther south with a g5 big number. This is five out of five, this is as big as we get there are still levels of five but g5, were already up their Power Outages are likely and also satellite disruptions are also likely. So yes, its certainly possible. So where the red coronas and then the most common are the green. This is what we see all the time across parts of canada, but the less common are the purples and the reds. We are seeing a lot of them tonight thanks to ted mayas that Will Ryan French is a solar physicists with us National Salah observatory. He joins us now from pointing National Grasslands in northeastern colorado. Good to have you with us. Thanks to staying up about of course, i think i would have been at when anyway, considering the light share thats currently going on behind me. I mean, its been spectacular this solar stone. I understand the peak time is about now now 2 00 a. M. At wheres the best place to see it honestly, the best place to see it is wherever you are currently. I wouldnt waste time getting in the car and driving too fast right now, im in Northern Colorado somewhere we would never typically expect to see the Northern Lights and ive seen it out behind me in full fourth force. I even started to myself earlier today. So wherever you are, if its dark just go outside and take a look and hope for the best your research primarily investigates solar flares. Obviously, we can study this ones so much more than the last major one, two decades does it go . What are you hoping to learn yes, we have a whole suite of facilities Around The World observing this flare on the effect from this flare, including the National Science foundations gone facility. And by pairing all of these different datasets from all of these different instruments, we can really start to piece together the story already, the narrative of from when that flare person leaves the sun or the triggers on the sun and that plasma moves through the solar system to it arriving on up. And weve all these different pieces of data. We can begin to piece together that story in a way that we havent been able to before of course, the sun has these solar flares. Theres powerful eruptions forming on the suns surface and i understand you started a project called sun science daily, which got a big following on social media. Explain why it got that following. And at whats speed of these flares heading towards earth right now yes, i think for a lot of people, they dont realize that the sun would he does anything. They think of it as a static, unchanging ball in the sky. But really when you start to look at the data and the sun is doing interesting things all the time and sometimes those things manifest itself in a large wave like this. But even the small events are interesting to scientists as well. These things are hurtling away from the sun thousands of miles per second. So really, really quick stuff heading our way and this activity is all like to his very, very big Sunspot Ride On Our Sun on its, its quite a strong Magnetic Field ive read it so big that if you have those Eclipse Glasses, you could see with a naked eyes that is, that right that is true if you have any Eclipse Glasses leftover from last month, eclipse, stick them on. Its a bit of a nice site test. But for most people you should be able to make out in sort of approaching the edge of the sun. Now, you should be able to make out a big black dots with your eye. And that is the sunspot that produced the Northern Lights tonight. Wow, this still solid stone holmes are cyclical rei, they typically happen every 11 years or so. This one was expected to hit mid next year. How long can it last yes so the sun itself follows and 11 year cycle where these solar storms are more probable so it isnt one that happens every cycle. So its not one every 11 years, but towards this peak of this cycle, we expect to have more. So this year, next year we anticipate having more of these things than we did a few years ago and more than we will and a few years time is current. Solar storm is set to end over the weekend, but we could be due for more coming soon in the coming weeks and months. That is exciting and these genetic Geomagnetic Storms can have the capacity to affect technology namespace, and earth, right what could be impacted . Yes so its important to note that flares and sottile russians can get much bigger than this so this did reach a g5 Geomagnetic Storm, but there have been flares in the past couple of centuries that ive gone way off that scale so the last time we had a g5 Geomagnetic Storm was back in 2003 and the recorded impacts from that were a few transformers being damaged down in south africa and some sort of Power Outages in sweden as well from this level of events, we could see some sort of localized small scale, temporary effects, but its only for the money much bigger events that again, get a lot bigger than this, where you might see widespread outages as he outages in terms of gps tracking, in terms of the International Space station astronauts its up there right now. Could they experience any impact so interesting you mentioned astronauts on the Space Station. Theres a policy that if there is a large solar flare or solar storm, they dont do any spacewalks because if they were outside the Space Station, they would be exposed to more radiation. So during these times it will be confined to the living quarters, which are in the center of the Space Station. There wow, incredible. And i imagine ive got a pretty good view of it right now they will i actually saw the International Space station passover not too long ago, and as always, seeing the Northern Lights from down here. No doubt, they would have been looking out the window. Theyre able to looking down at the Northern Lights from above there. And so for someone like you doing what you do, this must be an event of a lifetime i mean, to get to have solar flares. Geomagnetic storm on this scale, something we havent seen for two decades its certainly really exciting. I mean, the sun and researching the sun has been my life since about 20 17. And with the Solar Eclipse last month and the current solar storm going on now, its so great to the Public Interest in the sun, being interested in something that we do all the time or the National Solar observatory so really exciting stuff and over the coming night is tonight meant to be the best night to see this what can we expect over the next couple of nights so we expect tonight to be the peak tomorrow night, i would probably come out again and see what happens. So do keep an eye out from tomorrow night. And if youre somewhere Around The World, maybe sort of asia, australia that hasnt had nighttime yet, or youre just moving into my time in the next few hours . Definitely worth worth a shot there but again, they know like we could still expect some ongoing solar storm, but probably not as high as, as what we have right now. Ryan french exciting times. Good to have you on the program tonight. Thanks so canada is no stranger to the potential disruptions and dangerous from Geomagnetic Storms like this. Cnns paula newton is just out so the capital of ottawa and spoke with my colleague Michael Holmes, eleia some of the colors all over North America have been incredibly spectacular, not so much here in canada though this time about ten miles from us, they had some beautiful purples and pinks in the sky but unfortunately, weve got some cloud cover here is still, so were going to be a little bit more patient and see if it comes out. The issue here, michael, is that in 1989, they had a blackout in quebec. That is a canadian province actually, just over the river behind me. And that was a lot of chaos that happened in 1989. But whats fascinating here is that they just didnt have the sensors, the monitors, the satellite certainly technology that they have now than they had in 1989. So they are better prepared, theyre better prepared and all the hydro grids all across canada and the United States, they do not believe that that would occur this time around for various reasons in terms of the infrastructure im sure backups they have in place and the new technology, having said that, as chad clearly explained, this a very strong solar storm. So theyre thinking a bit out of the box here. Im wondering, okay, what could go wrong . And they were trying to foresee all the possibilities so far so good. Midnight just after midnight where i am here, eastern time apparently theres supposed to be some really strong some solar Storm Activity coming in the next hour or two in this location in canada, will see if the clouds cleared up. But right now, it is just a lot to look at. In the sky on the ground, everything seems normal for now yeah, theres that last shot is quite incredible from nain. 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