{"id":185969,"date":"2024-03-25T08:24:02","date_gmt":"2024-03-25T13:24:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/03\/extended-alert-severe-solar-storm-warning-auroras-possible-as-far-south-as-alabama"},"modified":"2024-03-25T08:24:02","modified_gmt":"2024-03-25T13:24:02","slug":"extended-alert-severe-solar-storm-warning-auroras-possible-as-far-south-as-alabama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/03\/extended-alert-severe-solar-storm-warning-auroras-possible-as-far-south-as-alabama","title":{"rendered":"Extended Alert: Severe solar storm warning, auroras possible as far south as Alabama"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/extended-alert-severe-solar-storm-warning-auroras-possible-as-far-south-as-alabama2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A significant geomagnetic solar storm is currently in progress, sparked by recent solar eruptions that have hurled plasma towards Earth.<\/p>\n<p>This atmospheric phenomenon is set to illuminate skies with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.earth.com\/news\/rare-spectacle-northern-lights-may-be-visible-in-17-states-next-week\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Northern Lights<\/a>, extending unusually far south to regions including Alabama and Northern California as early as Monday.<\/p>\n<p>The Space Weather Prediction Center (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.swpc.noaa.gov\/news\/g2-moderate-geomagnetic-storm-warning-extended\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">SWPC<\/a>) of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.noaa.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">NOAA<\/a>) warns of an extended period of heightened geomagnetic activity, known as a Geomagnetic K-index of 5.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A significant geomagnetic solar storm is currently in progress, sparked by recent solar eruptions that have hurled plasma towards Earth. This atmospheric phenomenon is set to illuminate skies with the Northern Lights, extending unusually far south to regions including Alabama and Northern California as early as Monday. The Space Weather Prediction Center (SWPC) of the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-185969","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185969","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=185969"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185969\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}