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Posted on 12/02/2023 1:00:24 AM PST by thecodont
A meteorologist at the National Weather Service office in Las Vegas found webcam footage showing the northern lights, aka aurora borealis, appearing over southern Nevada early Friday morning.
Matthew Woods knew to check webcams for the aurora borealis Friday morning because National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Space Weather Prediction Center had forecast a strong geomagnetic storm would occur. He spotted the aurora, which appear as pillars of light traveling across the sky, in footage captured by a Bureau of Land Management camera on Angel Peak at nearly 9,000 feet. The mountain is 30 miles from the Strip, as the crow flies.
“First I checked webcams farther north, but there was too much cloud cover,” Woods said. “Here over southern Nevada, skies were mostly clear.”
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WWII was preceded by an unusual aurora visible in Europe and areas of North America. Just saying.
The northern lights were visible in Fredericksburg Virginia the night after the bloody battle there in 1862.
Joshua Chamberlain of the 20th Maine Infantry Regiment, who a few months later would achieve historical immortality for his actions at Gettysburg, had been lying on the battlefield for most of the day. He wrote of the night……
“As we bore them, the forms of our fallen heroes, on fragments of boards torn from the fences by shot and shell, to their honored graves, their own loved North lifted her glorious lights, and sent her triumphal procession along the arch that spanned the heavens. An Aurora Borealis, marvelous in beauty. Fiery lances of gold – all pointing and beckoning upward. Befitting scene! Who would die a nobler death, or dream of more glorious burial? Dead for their country’s honor, and lighted to burial by the meteor splendors of their northern home.
There is a picture at the source, but it’s dated last April!
We were not able to see the aurora from Reno due to the weather...
I had to be content that The Creator shared THIS with us a bit earlier...
~Easy
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